Climate Quotes
1323 quotes by 704 authors
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The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.
— Joseph J. Romm
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The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the…
— Mark Lynas
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There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to…
— William J. Clinton
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There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with…
— Tony Blair
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There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.
— Jaime Lerner
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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to…
— Al Gore
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This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have…
— William J. Clinton
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This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.
— Mark Lynas
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Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
— Elizabeth May
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Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.
— Joseph J. Romm
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To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of…
— Hans Blix
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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.
— William H. Calvin
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Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to…
— Stephen Colbert
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Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards…
— Mark Lynas
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Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.
— William H. Calvin
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Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.
— Christopher Flavin
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We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really…
— Stephen Schneider
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We are all guilty and we all have to be part of the solution. We have to do the best we can and then try…
— Laurie David
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