Climate Quotes

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

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.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

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

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.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.