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To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another legacy of the 1968 generation, which I happen to belong to myself. In fact, it would be better if we just presented the facts and scenarios dispassionately - and then society can decide for itself what it wants to do to influence climate change.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

We are all guilty and we all have to be part of the solution. We have to do the best we can and then try to do better. It's not about any one person doing everything; it's about all of us doing something and then maybe a little more.

We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to.

We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

We are facing another economic meltdown. The ecosystem, on which the human species depends for life, is being destroyed at a rate that has not even been anticipated by climate scientists. We don't have a lot of time left. So either we get out and fight or we're finished. Fear is the only thing the Democratic Party has to offer - fear that the Republican Party is worse.

We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

We can and must use our combined skills at every opportunity available to address climate change.

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.

We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can't find any reference to climate change.

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. "We dont want to be predetermining what will come out of this process.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.