We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases,… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our… — Jack Herer Copy Share Image
...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they… — Michael Myers Copy Share Image
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic… — Robert L. Bradley, Jr Copy Share Image
I think you can grow your economy and at the same time do a better job of harnessing greenhouse gases. I don't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“God cursed the snake, the woman and then the earth. The earth was flooded and all life destroyed but the curse remains.… — L. Emerson Ferrell Copy Share Image
On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Some of the scientists on Dr. Molina’s committee like to point out that people can be pretty intelligent about managing risk in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions.… — Jonathan Duhamel Copy Share Image
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases… — Alan Lowenthal Copy Share Image
Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are already engineering the Earth’s operating system by dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into it every year. We’re just… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon. — Rose George Copy Share Image
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change.… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
I'm proud to have led the brokering of the ambitious 2030 climate package in the European Union to cut greenhouse gases by… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing… — Chris de Freitas Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image