Climate Change Quotes

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

As president, I'll set bold goals to combat climate change: generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years and slash carbon pollution at home and around the world.

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something.

We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

We've got to find another way of producing energy.

I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

Give up meat to save the planet.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

I am a global lukewarmist.

There is no high-carbon future

I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.

It's a moral question.