Climate change Quotes · Page 23

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

— David Suzuki

If we have to save the world from the adverse effects of climate change, then developed nations must lift the deprived with…

— Sushma Swaraj

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just…

— James Hansen

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to…

— Gina McCarthy

Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.

— Caroline Lucas

I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on…

— Brad Schneider

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

— A. A. Gill

We must recognize that Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and external shocks.

— Miroslav Lajcak

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China…

— Hans Rosling

Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we…

— Al Gore

The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There…

— Stefan Rahmstorf

My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment…

— Ed Davey

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at…

— Nina Fedoroff

Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because…

— Mark Powell

“Feet got sore, body was tired, long day, march down Manhattan. I felt a fire lit within me. Hopefully this fire will…

— Robert Trabold

The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless…

— Kate Brown

Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is…

— Steven Chu

Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…

— Lester R. Brown

I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.…

— Jeremy Paxman

Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.…

— James Hansen

One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might…

— Colin Robinson

We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the…

— Vandana Shiva

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who…

— Richard Branson

“people with strong “egalitarian” and “communitarian” worldviews (marked by an inclination toward collective action and social justice, concern about inequality, and suspicion…

— Naomi Klein

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

— James Hansen

We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI - such…

— Lisa Su

A narrative of fear surrounds the issue of climate change, and it's being used to completely alter our way of life.

— Leslyn Lewis

“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.”

— Peter Singer

I'm obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.

— Ro Khanna

We really are already seeing the impacts of climate change, of temperatures rising all around the world.

— Declan McKenna

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at…

— Richard Branson

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

— Wangari Maathai

Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously…

— Mark Lynas

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

— Fatih Birol

I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how…

— Zazie Beetz

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

— Barack Obama

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

— Barack Obama

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

— Bill Maher

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

— Alex Steffen

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two…

— Nicholas Stern