Climate Quotes · Page 29

We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

— Eric Martinot

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Global warming causes volatility. I feel it when I'm flying.

— Debbie Stabenow

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

— Bernie Sanders

America's prosperity has been built on cheap fossil fuel energy.

— Miranda Devine

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

— David Neeleman

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

— Ban Ki-moon

We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.

— Scott Pruitt

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

— Mark Udall

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

— William Ruckelshaus

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

— Clarence Clemons

Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy…

— Baroness Worthington Bryony Worthington

Germany is using its Energiewende policy as a way of envisioning a green transformation and innovation across many sectors.

— Mariana Mazzucato

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only…

— Antonio Guterres

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts…

— Ted Kulongoski

We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look…

— Fatih Birol

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for…

— Ron Wyden

The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a…

— Gwynne Dyer

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre…

— Tony Curran

We need to go to net zero carbon really quickly. And we're also asking for a people's assembly so people can decide…

— Gail Bradbrook

The current economic climate means getting out of college is no guarantee of getting a job, and no guarantee of a satisfying…

— Lena Dunham

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no…

— Bill Gates

The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big,…

— Ann Coulter

If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific…

— Prince Charles

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we…

— Alan Titchmarsh

“Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost…

— Roger Zelazny

“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the…

— Naomi Klein

If we can continue to come together and work on small things little by little, at least it's something. It's a start.…

— Michael Phelps

“At the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the United States, Britain, Norway, and other developed countries committed $4.5 billion to launch a…

— Mark Schapiro

“Ash swirls in the air and the landscape is gray rubble that falls away into the sea. They kept saying global warming…

— Francesca Lia Block

Clearly, climate change is an extremely important threat to us.

— Mark Walport

We must learn to succeed in conditions of low fuel and energy prices

— Dmitry Medvedev

Ethanol is here to stay, and we're going to work for new technologies to be more efficient.

— Sonny Perdue

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

— Jill Stein

Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

— Jimmy Carter

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

— Rusty Schweickart

“Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get." Robert A. Heinlein”

— Brad Blanton

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

— Jackie Speier