Climate Quotes

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Colorado's economy is already being threatened by unchecked climate change.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

Please don't let all the freak storms and climate change lead you to believe in freak storms and climate change.

LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.