Climate Quotes

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— Anonymous

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

— Jose Angel Gurria

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

— Boyan Slat

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

— Ezra Furman

Climate change is a global commons problem.

— Ottmar Edenhofer

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

— Stefanie Powers

Renewable energy is no longer a niche fuel.

— Fatih Birol

Climate change is a reality.

— Anonymous

Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.

— Barry Gardiner

You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

— Rob Corddry

Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.

— Barack Obama

A major element in American energy policy is infrastructure.

— Jake Auchincloss

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

— Danny Glover

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

— Barry Commoner

Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges.

— Joe Craft

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health…

— Jeff Goodell

This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck…

— Donald Trump

We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

Solar power - the costs have dramatically fallen, far faster than anyone has speculated. It's probably one of the greatest steps forward…

— Ed Davey

The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.

— M. S. Swaminathan

“This means that the soil could offset about one-third of the human-generated emissions annually absorbed in the atmosphere.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Dusty, if you ever see any "Quicksand"---you can know that there is OIL somewhere very close to it.”

— John Everett Bass (Maternal Grandfather of Marsha Carol Watson Gandy

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

— Michael Franti

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending…

— Bill Gates

If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right…

— John Christy

The fundamentals are the U.S. is going to end up being a net exporter of natural gas. That's going to be wonderful…

— Wilbur Ross

Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is…

— Lynn Jurich

My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies…

— Prince Charles

I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that…

— Naomi Klein

We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to…

— Rupert Murdoch

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an…

— Cameron Russell

I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going…

— Lewis Black

Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this…

— Greg Benson

Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning…

— Michael Brune

My view on global warming is that it's a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly…

— Don Imus

“f we view climate changes as our enemy we will always be defeated, for climate will always change. Natural climate change is…

— E. Kirsten Peters

Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is…

— Don Aitkin

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there…

— Rebecca Solnit

I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how…

— John F. Kerry