Climate Quotes
1323 quotes by 758 authors
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If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
— Barack Obama
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Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody…
— Barack Obama
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We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to…
— Barack Obama
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Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump…
— Barack Obama
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There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of…
— Barack Obama
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Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our…
— Barack Obama
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We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.
— Barack Obama
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I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits…
— Vinod Khosla
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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
— Vinod Khosla
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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution.…
— Vinod Khosla
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Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to…
— Jan Gehl
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This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've…
— Jeff Goodell
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We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
— Jim Yong Kim
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Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not…
— Ban Ki-moon
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President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his…
— Jay Leno
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It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
— Jerry Moran
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The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet,…
— Sylvia Earle
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I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life…
— Thomas Merton
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What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief…
— Austin Farrer
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And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as…
— Naomi Klein
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