Climate Change Quotes

• That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Problem

• I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Fiction

• We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Climate Change
  • Emissions
  • Contributing

• Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Believe
  • Holocaust

• We don't have a lot more time to deal with climate change, ... We need the right balance between regulation and market-based approaches.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Regulation

• I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Climate Change
  • Global Warming

• Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • True
  • Society

• We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

  

  Andrey Illarionov
  • Climate Change
  • Link
  • Carbon Dioxide

• The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Value
  • Industry
  • Petroleum

• We are at a point where we may see abrupt and irreversible changes due to climate change.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • May
  • Changes
  • Point

• Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • World
  • Action

• I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Believe
  • Real
  • I Believe

• There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Job
  • Energy
  • Challenge

• Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Reason
  • Temperature
  • Extinction

• I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Important
  • Climate Change
  • Community Of People

• The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Climate Change
  • Global Warming
  • Security threat

• We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Events
  • Mass
  • Extinction

• Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Citizens
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change

• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Climate Change
  • Epidemics
  • Nuclear War

• By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Time
  • Effect
  • Carbon

• Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

  

  Edward Davey
  • Child
  • Climate Change
  • Threatens

• We're looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors.

  

  Jacinda Ardern
  • Future
  • Responsibility
  • Climate Change

• Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

  

  Nicholas Herbert Stern
  • Poverty
  • Fail
  • Climate Change

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