Best 396 quotes in «climate change quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

Global warming my gluteus maximus

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

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.

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.

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

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

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?'

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

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

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

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.

Men argue. Nature acts.

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 matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

Of course climate change is real.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

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

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

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

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.

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

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

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

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

...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 antidote to climate change is community.