Climate Quotes

1323 Climate quotes by 704 unique authors

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
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud… — Eban Goodstein
It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future. — Eban Goodstein
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now… — Elizabeth Kolbert
It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps,… — Eban Goodstein
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses… — William H. Calvin
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones
Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when… — Van Jones
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked. — Joseph J. Romm
Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better… — Jay Inslee
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. — Hermann Scheer
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper… — Amory Lovins
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. — Joseph J. Romm
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of… — Mark Lynas
One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your… — Unknown Author

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