Climate Quotes · Page 17

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.

— Anonymous

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

— Anonymous

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

— Freeman Dyson

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

— Peter Sissons

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

— John Milton

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

— Henry David Thoreau

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

— Jeb Bush

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

— Red Adair

It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will…

— Fred Krupp

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import…

— Dan Lipinski

Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.

— Pierre Poilievre

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I will cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal, creating many millions of high-paying…

— Donald Trump

I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful…

— Bertrand Piccard

"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

— Rush Limbaugh

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

— Clive Hamilton

The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To…

— Allen Hershkowitz

Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising…

— Chip Giller

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is…

— Barry Commoner

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy…

— Thomas Moore

There's a growing sense among large corporations that to solve global problems like climate change, the responsibility can't fall just on the…

— William M. Daley

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to…

— Lisa Murkowski

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs……

— Gertrude Stein

It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.…

— Annalee Newitz

“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever…

— Thomas Merton

“Was Superstorm Sandy caused by greenhouse warming of the planet? In a word, no. Individual storms arise from specific conditions in the…

— E. Kirsten Peters

Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just…

— Sheila Watt-Cloutier

“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified…

— Bjorn Lomborg

In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that…

— Bill McKibben

There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was…

— Rush Limbaugh

In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other.…

— Bill McKibben

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed…

— Jim Wallis

Most emissions aren't caused by individuals, they're caused by corporations and states.

— Greta Thunburg

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

— Tim Holden

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

— Joseph J. Romm

“This whole world was a processed petroleum product.”

— Lev Grossman

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

— Reid Bryson

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

— Bill McKibben

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

— Ron Ziegler

The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.

— Sharan Burrow