Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

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

Climate change is crap.

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

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

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

Climate change is a reality.

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

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

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

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

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 my gluteus maximus

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.

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

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

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

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.