Climate Quotes
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Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.
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Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
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Science changes, and it's odd to me that scientists say, 'Never be skeptical,' because it was in the mid-'70s when they were saying we're sunk because we're going to have global climate cooling.
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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.
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Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.
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We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.
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The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.
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The impacts of climate change are almost immeasurable.
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...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!
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A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.
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Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded.
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Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead
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High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.
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Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
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The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
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The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?
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We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.
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I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
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If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.
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The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.
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I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
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We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
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We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for George W. Bush. Together we can save the climate. Together we will stop fossil fuels from destroying our future.
