Best 952 quotes in «climate quotes» category

We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, even national security. We must reduce our emissions to prevent even more dangerous change.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

We need to push the reset button on climate change.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.

We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy for us and will make us better environmental stewards because we will be contributing less to climate change and burning much cleaner fuel.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

We, the older generations, simply cannot leave a world for you, the younger generations, in which climate change impacts become ever more threatening to your survival. Still more public attention and action are needed. Solutions like renewable energy or energy efficiency need to fully power our collective future!

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

We've created the almost godly power of being able to alter the climate, to change the face of the earth, now we need to develop the consciousness of gods, and wield that power wisely

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

We will respond to the threat of climate change

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.

What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political.

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated.