Climate famous quotes
04-24-2025
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Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
-- Aaron Feuerstein -
We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.
-- Al Franken -
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
-- Al Gore -
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
-- Al Gore -
The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
-- Al Gore -
Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.
-- Al Gore -
Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.
-- Alan Lowenthal -
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
-- Alan Lowenthal -
I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.
-- Alan Titchmarsh -
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.
-- Alex Steffen -
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
-- Alex Steffen -
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.
-- Amory Lovins -
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
-- Amy Goodman -
Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
-- Andrey Illarionov -
We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.
-- Andrey Illarionov -
For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.
-- Angela Merkel -
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
-- Anita Loos -
In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
-- Anita Loos -
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.
-- Anthony Giddens -
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
-- Anthony Giddens -
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.
-- Antonin Artaud -
I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.
-- Arnold Kling -
Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
-- Arthur Balfour -
Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it's a reality.
-- Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg -
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
-- Austin Farrer -
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
-- Austin Farrer -
Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
-- Ban Ki-moon -
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
-- Barack Obama -
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
-- Barack Obama -
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.
-- Barack Obama -
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.
-- Barack Obama -
No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
-- Barack Obama -
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
-- Barack Obama -
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America.
-- Barack Obama -
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .
-- Barbara Stocking -
We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.
-- Ben Stewart -
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.
-- Bill McKibben -
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
-- Bill McKibben -
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.
-- Bill McKibben -
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
-- Bill McKibben -
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
-- Bill McKibben -
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
-- Bill McKibben -
I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
-- Bill Nye -
At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.
-- Blanche Lincoln -
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
-- Bob Inglis -
My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.
-- Bruno Latour -
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.
-- Bruno Stagno Ugarte -
Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.
-- Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington -
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.
-- Carl Sagan -
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.
-- Cary Fowler -
It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.
-- Cass Sunstein -
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.
-- Catharine Beecher -
Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.
-- Catherine Malandrino -
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
-- Charles Sturt -
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
-- Charles Sturt -
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.
-- Chris de Freitas -
Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
-- Chris Hayes -
Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes irreversible and out of control. A lot of progress has been made, but we must now go further, faster and turn targets into real change
-- Chris Huhne -
Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
-- Chris Huhne -
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
-- Chris Mooney -
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.
-- Chrisette Michele -
Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.
-- Christiana Figueres -
I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
-- Christiana Figueres -
Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.
-- Christina Romer -
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
-- Christine Lagarde -
No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.
-- Christine Stewart -
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
-- Christine Todd Whitman -
Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.
-- Christopher Flavin -
Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.
-- Clive Hamilton -
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most likely, now - as in the past - many analysts have become carried away by the results of their models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others.
-- Colin Robinson -
Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
-- Dan Lipinski -
I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.
-- Dana Perino -
Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.
-- Daniel Botkin -
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
-- Danny Glover -
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
-- David Attenborough -
The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany
-- David Clennon -
Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed
-- David Miliband -
The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.
-- David Miliband -
The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
-- David Miliband -
Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.
-- David Quammen -
It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.
-- David Roberts -
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.
-- David Suzuki -
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
-- David Suzuki
