Climate change Quotes · Page 51

Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management,…

— George Packer

I've always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I've set out to hold candidates and elected officials…

— Tom Steyer

My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and…

— Bill McKibben

“the motto “Shop less, live more, save the earth,” the team at Operation Noah, anxious about climate change, is promoting a series…

— Gerry Bowler

It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we…

— Bill Nye

The climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims - so much lower, in…

— Kenneth P. Green

Today, it is more important than ever to strengthen transatlantic relations. Only by co-operating closely can the EU and the US continue…

— Donald Tusk

“A great paradox...red states are poorere and have more teen mothers, more divorce, worse health, more obesity, more trauma-related deaths, more low-birth-weight…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“We should not confuse the rising costs of flooding with flooding itself (or indeed with climate change). It is entirely caused by…

— Bjorn Lomborg

When we speak about climate change, you're a victim of something ... which is happening with deep roots where you don't have…

— Emmanuel Macron

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.…

— Colin Robinson

But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably,…

— Peter Garrett

I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the…

— Robert Pollin

In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the…

— Peter Singer

“Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore this world? Could we not…

— L.M. Browning

Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make…

— Timothy Ball

“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the…

— Steven Magee

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They…

— David Miliband

In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature…

— Richard Lindzen

When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you…

— Boyan Slat

“Thus far, environmental policy worldwide is undertaken much like a school group project which tends to involve grand objectives, paired with an…

— Natalie Kyriacou

The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge…

— Daniel Lubetzky

Climate change, habitat destruction, extinctions - the Earth has seen it all before, thousands of years ago. And humans may have been…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is…

— Tony Blair

Even those who don't believe in climate change believe we should develop renewable energy. Americans get it: it's time. This is not…

— Marshall Herskovitz

We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of…

— Kofi Annan

Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf…

— Joseph J. Romm

Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following…

— Marco Rubio

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would…

— Rupert Murdoch

Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e.…

— Phil Jones

I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having…

— Christopher Landsea

Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age.…

— Allen Hershkowitz

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s…

— John F. Kerry

“Most Americans and Canadians (& earthlings) can save thousands annually with smarter energy choices. That's a lot of bucket list vacations, while…

— Natalie Pace

There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising - or that humankind is the cause. There is no…

— Bill Shorten

You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the…

— Jacob Weisberg