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The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.

The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of clean-energy technologies - and doing that very soon... Are we, as a species, capable of that kind of deliberate global response?

The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

The issues we address basically: We call for an emergency jobs program to address the emergency of climate change.

The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.

The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.

The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.

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!

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

The only perfect climate is bed.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

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.

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.