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Jessica Melbourne-Thomas Quotes

born 1981 Australia

Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (born 17 May 1981) is a marine, Antarctic and climate change scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. Her research focuses on climate change, its effects on the marine environment, and how to adapt and response to these changes.

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Random Jessica Melbourne-Thomas quote

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"The magnitude and rate of climate change together with associated risks, depends strongly on the near-term mitigation and adaptation actions."

Human activities are the highest contributors to climate change.

“The magical experience of diving in a kelp forest is like flying through a jungle surrounded by an amazing diversity of life,”

“The national finalists are an extraordinary group of people whose impact ranges from medical and scientific endeavours to volunteering, human rights advocacy, education, sustainability action and more,”

“Those forests are now effectively gone because of climate change. It makes me sad when I think my kids won’t have that same experience and get to see those environments the way I did.”

“I’ve come from being interested in understanding the fundamentals of ecology to thinking more about how humans interact with ecosystems and how we can better connect knowledge to decision making,”

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.