We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen. — William F. Laurance Copy Share Image
The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over… — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on… — Aleqa Hammond Copy Share Image
Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Climate change is real, and the fossil fuel industry is pouring tons and tons of money into campaign contributions. That's something to… — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
The question is not, "Is climate change happening?" Nor is the question, "Is climate change man-made?" Rather, we need to realize itʼs… — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies… — Harold Hamm Copy Share Image
The thinning of the ozone layer is blamed on logging of tropical forests. The fact that the burning of fossil fuels and… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it. — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Those biofuels would be better used by aviation and heavy trucking, for which electric power is not a viable option.” — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment. — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions. — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be… — Raymond Barnett Copy Share Image
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce. — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either… — Eugene Walter Copy Share Image
I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all,… — Owen Paterson Copy Share Image
“Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,” — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
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