Climate Quotes
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Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.
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Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.
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Truth, like climate, is common property.
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The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
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The climate system is constantly readjusting naturally in a large way - more than we would ever see from CO2. The CO2 kick [impact of CO2 emissions] is extremely small compared to what is happening in a natural way. Within the framework of a proper study of the sun-climate connection, you don't need CO2 to explain anything.
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Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.
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I've always kind of hated films about climate change.
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Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.
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I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
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Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.
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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?'
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Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the evidence being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.
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Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.
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Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.
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Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
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The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!
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Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.
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We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
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Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
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It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.
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Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.
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We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.
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According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
