Climate Quotes · Page 11

Fight global warming! Be cool.

— Randi Rhodes

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

— Ron Johnson

CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

— Rick Santorum

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

— Vagit Alekperov

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability

— Joseph Stiglitz

I support renewable energy.

— Fred Upton

The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

— Christopher Flavin

“The jar of oil, shall never run out.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

— Gordon Brown

“although my sudden goosebumps have nothing to do with the climate.”

— Paige Toon

The fact is that the climate changes regularly.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

— Jim Ratcliffe

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

— Winnie Byanyima

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

— Kenny Marchant

Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.

— Caroline Lucas

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

— Mohammad Khatami

As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement…

— Katie McGinty

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

— Bernie Sanders

Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.

— Patricia Espinosa

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

— Freeman Dyson

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

— Ed Begley, Jr

...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then…

— Theodore Wilbur Anderson

In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate…

— Dale Jamieson

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available…

— David Douglass

“Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars…

— Steven Magee

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today…

— Jose Mujica

Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to…

— Hillary Clinton

We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that…

— Tony Blair

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff…

— Kevin McCloud

Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel…

— Charles C. Mann

“it turns out, is the natural and the most cost-effective carbon sink. According to Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Nuclear plants are auatclly very safe, their nuclear waste is however one of the big drawbacks it takes a very long time…

— Amanda

I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists…

— Charles Krauthammer

Millions of people around the world suffer daily from the harmful health and environmental impacts caused by indoor cooking fires and inefficient…

— Nancy Sutley

Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective…

— Malcolm Forbes

The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped,…

— Peter W. Huber

We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in…

— Joe Biden

Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is…

— Lawrence Solomon