Climate Change Quotes
1105 Climate Change quotes by 483 unique authors
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The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
— Amory Lovins
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With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is…
— William Happer
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The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of…
— Freeman Dyson
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...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.
— James Hansen
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...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.
— Unknown Author
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About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.
— William Happer
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But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean,…
— Barack Obama
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If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling…
— Julia Gillard
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Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.
— Fred Singer
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...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to…
— Nicholas Stern
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Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
— Richard Lindzen
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I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest…
— Thomas Schelling
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...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!
— Willie Soon
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Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a…
— David Bellamy
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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for…
— Barbara Stocking
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In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil,…
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it…
— Jay Leno
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The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
— Bill McKibben
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Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars…
— Nicholas Stern
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