The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the… — Craig Stevens Copy Share Image
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we're holding the fossil fuel industry… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale -… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish.… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“The science shows us that fears of a climate apocalypse are unfounded. Global warming is real, but it is not the end… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The Nuclear REFUEL Act would inject additional sustainable energy options into our economy by expanding clean nuclear energy production here at home. — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
“We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If we become better with carbon capture technology, I think we can start a global trend toward carbon awareness. — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Innovation by American energy companies has led to a glut of the lighter forms of crude oil found in U.S. shale basins… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced… — Jim Jeffords Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change. — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources,… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without global action on climate change, Bhutan's tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change. — Brian Deese Copy Share Image