Climate change Quotes

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

— Michele Bachmann

When we know better, we do better.

— Maya Angelou

“Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap.”

— Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Truly and clearly, the climate changes.

— Scott Pruitt

The government can't change the weather.

— Marco Rubio

Give up meat to save the planet.

— Nicholas Stern

Climate change is people, and no one else.

— Wunderkind

We need the world to put a price on carbon.

— Tony Hayward

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

— Barack Obama

Diseases are a threat to us all. And so is climate change.

— Alok Sharma

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.

— Bill Gaede

If the climate changes on global level, why can't people?

— Loesje

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

— Brian Cox

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

— Franny Armstrong

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

— Michael Franti

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

— Jim Yong Kim

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become…

— Chris Hayes

“Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,”

— Naomi Oreskes

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the…

— Peter Gleick

“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”

— Greta Thunberg

Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine...

— Christopher Flavin

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept…

— Wangari Maathai

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted,…

— Bill McKibben

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

— James Hansen

The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be…

— Steve Holliday

I am very good at finding snow when there's very little snow. From a day in, day out perspective, I'm fine. I…

— Jeremy Jones

Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism,…

— Winnie Byanyima

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny…

— Nicholas Stern

Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That's really a hard…

— Bob Inglis

As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with…

— Christine Todd Whitman

Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during…

— Hermann E. Ott

“Even before the convention, the results from the state and local consultations suggested a surprising shift in the membership’s concerns—after more than…

— Michael R. Bloomberg

Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent…

— Ross Gelbspan

...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific…

— Al Gore

Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because…

— Kofi Annan

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't…

— James Cameron

For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change,…

— Ban Ki-moon

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale,…

— Satish Kumar

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the…

— John McCain

If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would…

— Moby