Climate Quotes · Page 145

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

— Jayni Chase

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

— Colin Beavan

Rejoining the Paris agreement and our investments in clean energy research are an important way that the United States is stepping up…

— Jake Auchincloss

Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do.

— Michael Shellenberger

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to…

— Margaret D. Klein

I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial…

— Kate Brown

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

— Zac Goldsmith

I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks…

— Dan Benishek

“The ExxonMobil forecast numbers suggested that to make an impact on oil demand, the world’s governments would have to reach a unified…

— Steve Coll

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it…

— James Balog

Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions…

— Nicholas Stern

I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is…

— Julia Butterfly Hill

Here's the truth: Keystone XL won't make America energy-independent. It will threaten our land and livelihoods to pump Canadian tar sands' heavy…

— Tom Steyer

Climate change is a global crisis - one the international community and private sector must tackle together if we have any hope…

— Tom Steyer

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is,…

— Denis Hayes

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences.…

— Phil Jones

Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute.

— Michael Shellenberger

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put…

— James Lovelock

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

— Billy Sherwood

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one…

— Pete Domenici

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

— Carlos Ghosn

Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that,…

— Larry Bucshon

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

— Harry Reid

It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.

— Michael Franti

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

— Marion Nestle

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital…

— Gwyn Morgan

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

— Fidel Castro

Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world's petrol,…

— Mukesh Ambani

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal…

— Joseph J. Romm

Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.

— Tim Wirth

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

— Lawrence Bender

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain…

— Cate Blanchett

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no experimental data that exists that supports the view that the Earth's climate is changing in any dangerous way.

— Willie Soon

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

— Noam Chomsky

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

— Ted Cruz

We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is…

— Stephen Schneider