Climate Quotes · Page 44

Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.

— Ron Johnson

The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.

— Matt Gaetz

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.

— Charles Platt

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

— Bill McKibben

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

— Jonathon Porritt

We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

— Hillary Clinton

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

— Ted Baillieu

The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

— Barry Ritholtz

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

— Graydon Carter

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

— Scott Westerfeld

For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.

— Kate Brown

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been…

— Jay Inslee

Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest.

— Michael Shellenberger

It's time for all of us to kind of think about the green initiative as a whole. Monetizing it is very important.…

— Ray J

I would love to get solar panels installed to help us work towards generating our own energy supply.

— Edith Bowman

We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor…

— Ali al-Naimi

We are close to a consensus that the Kyoto Protocol does huge economic, political, social and ecological damage to the Russian Federation.…

— Andrey Illarionov

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the…

— Barack Obama

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of…

— Josiah Strong

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a…

— Ed Rendell

Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly…

— Nigel Lawson

With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

I do think that saving the economy was a pretty big deal. We did a lot of stuff early that ended up…

— Barack Obama

If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our…

— Gina McCarthy

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that…

— David Attenborough

“the Soil Carbon Challenge measures carbon levels over ten years. Someone at a university, completing a PhD or seeking publication, has incentives…

— Judith D. Schwartz

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions…

— Lee Kuan Yew

There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the…

— Paul Hawken

“Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one…

— Naomi Klein

“The jarring fact is that humanity just finished spending two centuries GETTING RID OF renewable energy and replacing it with fossil fuels.…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While…

— Christopher Flavin

Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of…

— Harrison Schmitt

If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.

— Lisa Rinna

“Even the wind carries the memory of forests long gone.”

— Lawrence Nault

We've already seen the impacts of climate change in our state of Minnesota.

— Dean Phillips

Climate change is a security threat that Africans have had to deal with all of our lives.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

— Lois Capps

We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening.

— Steve Miller

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

— Jimmy Buffett

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

— J. Paul Getty