Quotes About Climate

Climate action in cities is the key that unlocks a low emissions and resilient future.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I've fallen in love with Waikiki; the beach, the climate, the people, and the hotel - it really is a paradise.

Norway is combating climate change. It's an important issue for us. And we are committed to the Paris Agreement.

Although the Trump administration cannot halt global progress on climate change, it can still hurt the U.S. economy and the United States' diplomatic standing by abandoning the Paris agreement.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.

Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.

The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

Just one hundred companies have been the source of more than 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions since 1988.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why invent fusion reactors if your climate is comfortable, if your food is abundant? Why build fortresses if you have no enemies? Why force change upon a world that poses no threat?

Simple really, the only future I see before me is one of mass famine, severe droughts, wildfires and floods.

It was the way things were going. People realizing how little time they had left to get rich before the planet melted.

Do you not know? No Sicilian will wear underwear for five months. It is just too hot. Oh, the day in September when you have to put on your underwear!

The concept of barroom shoot-outs and duels in the sun have no part in our tradition either, possibly because we have had so few barrooms and so little sun. (It is awkward to reach efficiently for a six-gun while wearing a parka and two pairs of mittens.)

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

We now have the economics confirming that not only is climate action required to reduce climate risks, but that it is vital to building long-term, sustainable economic growth.

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

At a time when leadership on climate protection and clean energy are more vital than ever, Portland and Oregon must step up and lead.