Climate Quotes

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.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

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

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts.

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

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

The only perfect climate is bed.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

As president, I'll set bold goals to combat climate change: generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years and slash carbon pollution at home and around the world.

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.