Quotes About Environment

I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

I came from a very corporate environment, but my own style is quite approachable, warm, and very detail oriented.

There was a warm and encouraging environment at home. My self-loathing and neuroticism are not because of my upbringing.

It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

Faux fur is not really warm.

Given enough time, polar bears might migrate off the Arctic ice, evolve darker coats, find a different diet, and thrive in a new, warmer climate. But if the ice on which they depend disappears in a few decades, they are likely to die.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.

Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics!

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases... but they don't know the actual consequence of that.

Only by planting trees, we will be able to overcome global warming.

The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.