Climate Quotes · Page 144

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New…

— Anonymous

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

— Johan Eliasch

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You can not protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are…

— Anonymous

I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

— Melissa Bean

A big blizzard proves there's no global warming in the same way being out of milk proves there's no such thing as…

— Dana Gould

I support a Green New Deal to put people to work building a renewable green energy infrastructure that can help us fight…

— Rashida Tlaib

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most…

— Peter Garrett

If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw…

— Daniel Yergin

Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change…

— Bill McKibben

House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates…

— Mary Doria Russell

Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and…

— Jose Angel Gurria

I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line…

— Bruce Bruce

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water…

— Naveen Jain

The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,…

— David Miliband

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

— Dennis Kucinich

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

— George W. Bush

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis.

— Dick Durbin

There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30…

— Ian Plimer

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it…

— Buzz Aldrin

Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

— Michelle Malkin

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole…

— Michael E. Mann

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the…

— James Hansen

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

— Susan Collins

In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.

— Barry Gardiner

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation…

— Fred Upton

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to…

— Jason Mraz

Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil,…

— Jennifer Granholm

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

— Van Jones

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

— David Attenborough

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this…

— Anonymous

It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

— Tim Yeo

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

— Marco Rubio

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

— Svante Arrhenius

We have to get to the point where each individual, each corporation, each community chooses low carbon, because it makes fundamental sense.…

— Christiana Figueres

Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid.…

— Christiana Figueres

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

— Lester R. Brown