Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Men argue. Nature acts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

The antidote to climate change is community.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

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 must be more to life than having everything.

The government can't change the weather.

There is no high-carbon future

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

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

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

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

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