Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Global warming my gluteus maximus

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.

Give up meat to save the planet.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

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

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

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

Men argue. Nature acts.

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

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

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

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.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

Of course climate change is real.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.