Environment Quotes

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We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has… — Al Gore
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes... — Al Gore
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,… — Al Gore
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if… — James Hansen
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine. — James Hansen
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made… — James Hansen
There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5 billion. — Tony Blair
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are… — Bjorn Lomborg
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. — Lois Capps
The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water… — Al Gore
The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There is no way… — Stefan Rahmstorf
The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is… — James Hansen
In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier… — Unknown Author
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the… — Andrew Revkin
We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change… — Mohamed Nasheed
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the… — Richard Lindzen
But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over… — Frederick Seitz
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and… — Timothy Ball
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system… — Rajendra K. Pachauri

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