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Climate Change Quotes by Nicholas Stern
- ...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…
- 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…
- If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy…
- You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there…
- There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
- The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response
- Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades
- Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
- Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
- Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds…
- Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels
- Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
- A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years…
- Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet
- This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?
- How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly,…
- I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little…
- My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an…
- The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and…
- A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the…
- Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between…
- We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people…
- We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that…
- Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by…
More Climate Change Quotes
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an… — Joe Barton
- All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change. — Cate Blanchett
- Climate change is crap. — Tony Abbott
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
- Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and… — Buzz Aldrin
- Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing… — Buzz Aldrin
- Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter