Climate Quotes

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something.

We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.

Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.

Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

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

Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.

The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.

We've got to find another way of producing energy.