Climate Change Quotes

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.

Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.

The results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to.

I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

The whole thing [climate change] is bogus and made up, designed like they always do to scare you.

Global warming, climate change, it's a total.

We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can't find any reference to climate change.

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change."

"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

We don't need a president like a Trump who doesn't actually, George, doesn't even believe in climate change, let alone wants to do anything about it, rejecting science.

Donald Trump believes that climate change is a hoax. Now, this is not just a stupid expression, but it is incredibly dangerous.

I happen to believe that one of the great crises facing the planet is climate change. Donald Trump happens not to think that climate change is real. Hillary Clinton takes it seriously.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.