Climate Quotes

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.

Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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