Climate change Quotes · Page 26

Many smaller economies - island states, poor nations, and tropical countries are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

— Brian Deese

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

— Roy Spencer

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before…

— Weyes Blood

My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because…

— Noam Chomsky

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

— Marion Nestle

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.

— Harry Reid

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority…

— Prince Charles

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting…

— Mike Quigley

Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that…

— George M. Whitesides

I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general,…

— Margaret D. Klein

“The bad news is that, measured in terms of geologic time, if the Earth’s history is an accurate guide, glaciers will soon…

— Andrew Bernstein

The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and…

— Jurgen Trittin

Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a…

— Marshall Herskovitz

The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less…

— Chuck Klosterman

If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,…

— Dale Jamieson

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional…

— James Hansen

The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast…

— Prince Charles

If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe…

— Annalee Newitz

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor…

— Moby

... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future.…

— Julian Morris

“Like many other world religions, nationalism requires its adapts to adhere to a strict dogma. They must also provide a sacrifice of…

— Lamine Pearlheart

“Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify…

— George Monbiot

Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to…

— Shailesh Rao

The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money.…

— Patrick Michaels

Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate…

— James Hansen

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

— Paul Saffo

Energy is one of those things that brings Europe together in terms of our security needs, affordable energy and climate change.

— Ed Davey

Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.

— Paul Polman

“Climate change will result in mass migrations of humans out of areas that can no longer sustain life and into naturally abundant…

— Steven Magee

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

— James Lovelock

We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.

— John McDonnell

As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the…

— Norbert Reithofer

My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

— Katharine Hayhoe

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

— Al Gore

“For a more knowing and informed world, we are becoming forever more complicit based on the evidence presented to us, regarding the…

— Alastair Agutter

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

— Chris Stewart

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

— Barack Obama

Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.

— Clive Lewis

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know…

— John F. Kerry