Climate Quotes - Page 5

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

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

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

My faith is an enormous motivator for me to engage as well, because climate change is not just an issue that affects the entire planet, it is one that disproportionately affects those who do not have the resources to cope with this change - those whom we are explicitly told as Christians to care for.

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

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

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.

Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.