Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare,… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor. — Craig Rosebraugh Copy Share Image
We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need an international solution to the challenge of climate change, there's no question about it. But the real key is, can… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us,… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world.… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The policies we debate and enact in Congress have a real impact on people across the country. Climate change, immigration, economic inequality… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
I’ve often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being “half-pregnant.” You either are… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“When a company (e.g. Enron) is calling for more environmental regulation, we need to look very carefully at what they might stand… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
“The future says: Dear mortals; I know you are busy with your colourful lives; I have no wish to waste the little… — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
“People are panicking about climate change in large part because the media and environmental campaigners tell us to, because politicians overhype the… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take. — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
All countries will feel the increasing effects of dangerous climate change and it is those least able to bear it who are… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Putting a climate change lens on policy making offers a huge opportunity to make smart decisions about India's future. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise -… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Climate change is an existential threat to the health, national security, economic prosperity, and future of the American people and our planet.… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
“In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image