Climate Change Quotes
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We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.
Ezra Furman -
The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.
Nicholas Davies
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Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.
Naomi Oreskes -
On climate change, the science is clearer about what you need to do to get a real impact than... on counterterrorism.
Ivo Daalder -
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
Ali al-Naimi -
It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.
Joy Bryant -
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
Enele Sopoaga -
History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.
Matt Gaetz
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This is a good decision by the European Parliament to reduce the number of permits traded and is an important step forward for climate change policy.
Edward Davey -
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Nicholas Herbert Stern -
We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.
Ben Stewart -
I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
Bill Gates -
Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the quality of our air and water for our children. Most Americans want action on climate change. You can just go through the list. Most Americans believe in progressive taxation.
Nancy MacLean -
We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.
Eve Ensler
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First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.
Bill Clinton -
Climate change is a security threat that Africans have had to deal with all of our lives.
Ali Bongo Ondimba -
Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.
Paul Krugman -
Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I’m not a scientist.' Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.
Hillary Clinton -
Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.
Bill Clinton -
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.
Patricia Espinosa
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
Tony Abbott -
The federal government has a responsibility to address climate change. The federal government can continue to regulate corporations, tax polluters and incentivize the use of renewable forms of energy.
Juan Vargas -
Some believe the answer to addressing climate change lies in technology incentives. Others say limiting emissions is the only answer. We need both.
Eileen Claussen -
Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see countries all over the world struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops ask you're going to see all kinds of international conflict.
Hillary Clinton