Quotes About Climate

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy.

Obviously, not all migration relates to global warming, but the correlation is higher than most would think.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

There is universal consensus among experts that the earth's atmosphere is heating up - and that we are responsible for it by putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We also know that the consequences of global warming are catastrophic. But how do we make sure that all countries reduce greenhouse gases?

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Global warming is my personal experience.

The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.

Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.

As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year.

When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.

The earth is warming. Humans are contributing.

Our planet is warming dangerously.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.