Quotes About Climate

A hundred and ten in the shade is hot — but you don't gotta shovel it off your driveway.

Welcome to Arizona, where the heat is sick of the heat.

But it's a dry heat…

The English winter — ending in July, To recommence in August...

When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.... when they said it was now "cold weather," I saw that they had traveled outside of their sphere of knowledge and were floundering. I believe that in India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Yes, leadership is about vision. But leadership is equally about creating a climate where the truth is heard and the brutal facts confronted. There's a huge difference between the opportunity to "have your say" and the opportunity to be heard. The good-to-great leaders understood this distinction, creating a culture wherein people had a tremendous opportunity to be heard and, ultimately, for the truth to be heard.

Lo stato antico, un po' come il clima, spesso costituiva una minaccia, non un beneficio.

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.

Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.

I've been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It's an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic.

I certainly know that the NDP and the Liberals talk about understanding climate science; they just haven't put forward anything that suggests they actually understand it.

Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.