Climate Quotes

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated.

Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

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

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.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.