Climate change Quotes · Page 19

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

— George Monbiot

“We have an obligation to help those in absolute poverty that is no less strong than our obligation to rescue a drowning…

— Peter Singer

Climate change is an existential threat to the health, national security, economic prosperity, and future of the American people and our planet.…

— Dean Phillips

“In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass…

— Steven Magee

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference…

— Rush Limbaugh

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

— George H. W. Bush

Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking…

— Martin O'Malley

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise -…

— James Hansen

My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment…

— Ed Davey

The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There…

— Stefan Rahmstorf

Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we…

— Al Gore

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China…

— Hans Rosling

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the…

— London Breed

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact,…

— Carl Safina

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating…

— Rupert Murdoch

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either…

— Aldo Leopold

Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.…

— James Hansen

I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.…

— Jeremy Paxman

Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…

— Lester R. Brown

Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is…

— Steven Chu

Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last…

— Christie Hefner

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who…

— Bill Bryson

“Science Class Would you invent some irrational explanation for we lost souls that the glaciers aren’t really melting at all, that they…

— Diogenes of Mayberry

To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or…

— Vaclav Klaus

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

— Bill Gates

All countries will feel the increasing effects of dangerous climate change and it is those least able to bear it who are…

— Hilary Benn

Putting a climate change lens on policy making offers a huge opportunity to make smart decisions about India's future.

— Rohini Nilekani

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no…

— John F. Kerry

97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing…

— Bernie Sanders

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

— Nicholas Stern

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare,…

— John Gummer

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by…

— Naomi Wolf

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say…

— Bill McKibben

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

— Tony Abbott

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

— Barack Obama

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

— Craig Rosebraugh

There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we…

— Justin Trudeau

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

— Peter Watts

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future…

— Ban Ki-moon