Climate Quotes

• People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Jobs
  • Wells
  • States

• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • American
  • Revolution
  • Genius

• Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Done
  • Oil

• The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner.

  

  Scott Pruitt
  • Changing
  • Climate
  • Contributes

• It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Change
  • Climate
  • Discredit

• 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?

  

  William A. Dembski
  • People
  • Political
  • Break

• The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live in peace and justice in a clean environment. When we look around the world and we see that is not the case, we know the will of the majority is not being listened to, that's the first sign that our system is broken.

  

  Woody Harrelson
  • Environment
  • Broken
  • Catholic

• It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

  

  Tim Yeo
  • Development
  • Planning
  • Policy

• Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.

  

  David Pocock
  • Home
  • Christian
  • Direct

• Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a woman's spirits.

  

  Catherine Malandrino
  • Fashion
  • Economic
  • Spirits

• There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Disaster
  • Behaviour

• Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.

  

  Chris Barrie
  • Change
  • Member
  • Prince Of Wales

• You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Woman
  • Climate
  • Housekeeping

• I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.

  

  Scott Pruitt
  • Ability
  • Debate
  • Human Activity

• ...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

  

  Willie Soon
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Weather

• I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.

  

  Willie Soon
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Meetings

• Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent of our territory is or can be referred to as northern, if not the Far North. We have a rather small warm Black sea strip in the South and - to tell the truth - quite a few regions with a hospitable warm climate.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Today
  • Black

• Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.

  

  Eugene Walter
  • Proud
  • Summer
  • Seasons

• We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Trying
  • Listening
  • Forget

• I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Important
  • Change
  • Things

• It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

  

  James Hansen
  • Control
  • Young
  • Climate

• I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

  

  Avi Lewis
  • Films
  • Climate
  • Hated

• Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Criticism
  • Approach
  • Dissent

• In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

  

  William McDonough
  • Humans
  • Interest
  • Ends

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