Climate Quotes

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

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

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

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.

The government can't change the weather.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.

There's a difference between climate & weather, moron!

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Bed is the perfect climate.

What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

Climate change is a global commons problem.

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]

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

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Time is running out to deal with climate change.

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.

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

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

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

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

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.

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

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.