Quotes and Sayings About Climate
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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