Climate Quotes

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.

Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer energy-efficient products that are, by nature, climate-friendly.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

The climate informs the character.

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

My view is that 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.

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

Give up meat to save the planet.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

I am a global lukewarmist.

There is no high-carbon future

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.