Climate Change Quotes

1105 Climate Change quotes by 483 unique authors

I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something. — Jeremy Jackson
Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a… — Michael Shermer
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations… — Naomi Oreskes
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible… — C.S. Lewis
A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late. — Unknown Author
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it. — Naomi Oreskes
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the… — Naomi Oreskes
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.… — Austin Bradford Hill
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. — George Monbiot
Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they… — Gerald Durrell
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. — Chris Mooney
Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there… — Steven Chu
The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic… — Unknown Author
While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are… — Steven Chu
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true. — Paul Watson
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. — David Suzuki
No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality… — Unknown Author
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms… — Tim Wirth
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. — Gus Hall
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. — David R. Brower
Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so… — Ban Ki-moon

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