Able Quote by Robin Williams

In a perfect world global emissions would have peaked already. In a semi-perfect world we will peak on Dec. 31, 2020. The fact is,…

— Christiana Figueres

We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but…

— Jose Angel Gurria

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost…

— Jeremy Grantham

We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of…

— Ray Mabus

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs…

— Carol Browner

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at…

— Jacques Monod

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we…

— Gina McCarthy

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.

— Hillary Clinton

I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous…

— Daniel Quinn

I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost…

— Prince Charles