Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

when you’re raising weather by artificial means, it’s hard to pretend you don’t have a hand in the change

When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.

Whether or not it is true that climate change exacerbates other environmental problems, the rush to name a unitary cause of a complex problem should give us pause. The pattern is familiar. It is none other than war thinking, which also depends on identifying a unitary cause of a complex problem. That cause is called the enemy, and the solution is to defeat the enemy.

Without addressing how we live together and finding a way that respects both nature and our universal humanity, we won't have the collective ability, strength, or shared vision necessary to protect our world or build a better one.

Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.

You're confusing weather with climate. When it's cold in the winter, that's weather. When it's cold in Alaska, that's climate.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

You're either for the environment or against the environment.

youtube has been told to get rid of anything that disputes the official narrative of total lies

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

You've heard the call: We have to do something. We need to fight. We need to identify the enemy and go after them. Some respond, march and chant. Some look away, deny what's happening and search out escape routes into imaginary tomorrows: a life off the grid, space colonies, immortality in paradise, explicit denial, or consumer satiety in wireless, robot staffed, 3-D printed techno-utopia. Meanwhile, the rich take shelter in their fortresses, trusting to their air conditioning, private schools, and well-paid guards. Fight. Flight. Flight. Flight. The threat of death activates our deepest animal drives.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure.

As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

Climate change is crap.

Climate change is a reality.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

Give up meat to save the planet.

Global warming, climate change, it's a total.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

Global Warming Snowstorm Algore, paralyzing the upper Midwest two weeks before winter. Every time he shows up someplace, every time, it's almost comical, every time Al Gore shows up someplace there's either an outbreak of weather that is the exact opposite of what he's talking about, he never does seem to get embarrassed. That's why they stopped calling it global warming and now call it climate change so that virtually every perceived abnormality can be said to be caused by climate change.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Global warming my gluteus maximus

Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.