Acceleration Quote by Al Gore

We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the…

— Al Gore

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

— Jamais Cascio

We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the…

— Barack Obama

We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become…

— Shane Claiborne

We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another…

— Bill McKibben

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we…

— Barry Commoner

We definitely don't want to go through another Ice Age or another natural cycle of global warming. Both happen over a long period of…

— David Grinspoon

If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have…

— Barack Obama

...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...

— Al Gore

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get…

— Bjorn Lomborg

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

— Peter Barrett