Climate change Quotes · Page 37

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

— Al Gore

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

— Mark Pocan

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

— Joseph J. Romm

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is vital that MPs take the issue of climate change seriously and support the students in their activism. They can rest…

— Layla Moran

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.

— Johnny Isakson

Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.

— John F. Kerry

“over the past decade Congress has not passed a single bill that takes direct aim at climate change. Yet at the same…

— Michael R. Bloomberg

Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,…

— Leo Kadanoff

“We were making some progress on climate-change adaptation in the late 1990s,” Klaus Jacob observed. “But September 11th set us back a…

— Eric Klinenberg

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic…

— Ray Metcalfe

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been…

— Roy Spencer

This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies…

— Ed Murray

“They thought that Hillary spent too much time trying to appeal to people based on their race, or their gender, or their…

— Donna Brazile

The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof…

— Eduard Bruckner

“Ecologically, bourgeois exploitation and manipulation are undermining the very capacity of the earth to sustain advanced forms of life. The crisis is…

— Murray Bookchin

Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries…

— Michael Meacher

Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under…

— James Hansen

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“What is certain is that there will be increasing numbers of refugees if rapid climate change continues. People have to live somewhere.…

— Jonathan A. Moo

“[A] group of leading academics argue that humanity must stay within defined boundaries for a range of essential Earth-system processes to avoid…

— Jonathan A. Moo

Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues…

— Yoweri Museveni

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything…

— Amanda Palmer

“It is the first book, maybe the only book to talk about how the problem of climate change can be addressed in…

— Anonymous

This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.

— Bill Pullman

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human…

— Rush Limbaugh

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

— Joseph J. Romm

Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory…

— Ted Cruz

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

— Bill McKibben

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

— Al Gore

[Global-warming debate] some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.

— Dmitry Medvedev

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

— Michael Shellenberger

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was…

— James Hansen

When you think about climate change, that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

— Jim James

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

— David Miliband

David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence…

— Margo Kingston

If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.

— Johan Rockstrom

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

— Layla Moran