Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Men argue. Nature acts.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

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.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

The antidote to climate change is community.

Of course climate change is real.

...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.

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

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

The government can't change the weather.

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.