Climate Change Quotes

Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

Of course climate change is real.

Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

The climate change plan set out a few days ago by federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair will get us there, which is why I strongly support it.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Please don't let all the freak storms and climate change lead you to believe in freak storms and climate change.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

Climate change is a reality.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

The government can't change the weather.

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.