Climate Change Quotes

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.

The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.

I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very hard.

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.