Climate Quotes · Page 146

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free

— Bill McKibben

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

— Angela Merkel

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

— Lawrence Solomon

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster…

— John F. Kerry

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Crucially, the Energy Transition Act does not leave affected workers and neighbors behind. We look out for each other. With this law,…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with…

— Chellie Pingree

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials…

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

Solar makes electricity expensive for two inherently physical reasons. Sunlight is dilute, requiring 10 to 15 times as much materials and mining,…

— Michael Shellenberger

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state…

— Kent Conrad

The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy…

— Frank Luntz

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business…

— John Sununu

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the…

— James Hansen

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence…

— Bill McKibben

It makes no sense to have oil if to get it out you have to let the multinationals come and take it.

— Alberto Fernandez

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.

— Michael Shellenberger

I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.

— Chris Paine

“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they…

— Stan Goff

We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer…

— Martin Schulz

It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I understand gas prices are like a hidden tax - not a hidden tax; it's taking money out of people's pockets. I…

— George W. Bush

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate…

— Kenny Guinn

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

— Ruth Wilson

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

— William A. Dembski

We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

— Raf Simons

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

— Caroline Lucas

I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.

— Ann Kirkpatrick

Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible...

— Donald Brown

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

— Nancy Pelosi

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

— Phil Harding

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

— Fatih Birol

“The roaring of the seas; the turmoil of the sands; the howling of the winds; the fall of the hail; the burning…

— H.C. Roberts

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

— Anita Loos

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

— Sarah Palin

The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.

— John S. Watson

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late...We can save…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

— Jay Inslee