Climate Quotes

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First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and… — David Miliband
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response — Nicholas Stern
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades — Nicholas Stern
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change — Nicholas Stern
Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised — Nicholas Stern
Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds… — Nicholas Stern
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen — Nicholas Stern
Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed — David Miliband
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 earth's… — Al Gore
Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet — Richard Leakey
Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change — Ed Miliband
We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and… — Tony Blair
If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world — Tony Blair
Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race — Tony Blair
Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks — Wallace Smith Broecker
Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do… — John Beddington
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it — Phil Harding
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context… — Phil Harding
There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point… — D. James Baker

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