Environment Quote by Naomi Oreskes

“The expanding bull’s eye effect means we’re likely to see much more costly disasters happen over time, even if the climate doesn’t change at…

— Bjorn Lomborg

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and…

— Bill McKibben

“Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.”

— Timothy Snyder

“We were making some progress on climate-change adaptation in the late 1990s,” Klaus Jacob observed. “But September 11th set us back a decade on…

— Eric Klinenberg

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the…

— Keith Briffa

“I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of…

— Bill McKibben

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books…

— James Lovelock

The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the…

— Barry Gardiner

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

— Vladimir Putin

“Climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.”

— Peter Singer

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

We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008…

— Chris Barrie