Climate Quotes

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.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

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

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.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

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.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

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.

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.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.