Carbon Quote by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

— Yosef Abramowitz

...we have got to deal with increased demand for energy, increased demand for food, increased demand for water, and we've got to do that…

— John Beddington

But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time…

— Gwynne Dyer

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.

— Ottmar Edenhofer

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

— James Hansen

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

— Jamais Cascio

We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global…

— James Hansen

We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability…

— Vinod Khosla

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one…

— James Hansen

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half…

— Nicholas Stern

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or…

— Bill McKibben