Consequence Quote by Michael Oppenheimer

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

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

— Rupert Murdoch

We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck…

— Naomi Klein

We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate change.

— Ted Lieu

...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

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink…

— Felix Dodds

The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global…

— Al Gore

Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to…

— Michael Meacher

We are faced with an incredible challenge to curb our greenhouse-gas emissions around the globe. Everyone has to realize this and come to terms…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels.…

— Ban Ki-moon

Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it…

— Chris Huhne

First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars…

— David Miliband