Climate Quotes

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Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year. — William H. Calvin
Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen. — R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets… — Van Jones
Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous. — Van Jones
Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness. — Gregory Kats
Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists… — Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm. — Joseph J. Romm
I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort. — Felix Kramer
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most. — James Hansen
I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful… — Franny Armstrong
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in… — Joseph J. Romm
If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would… — Joseph J. Romm
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against… — George Monbiot
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens… — Joseph J. Romm
If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing… — Joseph J. Romm
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of… — Mark Lynas
If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia… — Jay Inslee
If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. — Van Jones
In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the… — Joseph J. Romm
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. — Joseph J. Romm

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