Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

Men argue. Nature acts.

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

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

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

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

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

Of course climate change is real.

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.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

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

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

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

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

The antidote to climate change is community.

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

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

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

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.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

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.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

There is no high-carbon future

The government can't change the weather.

The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

There must be more to life than having everything.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

We are now running out of time.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!