Quotes About Climate

Putting a climate change lens on policy making offers a huge opportunity to make smart decisions about India's future.

I just wish the California officials would focus more on cleaning up the air in their state than trying to look like they're doing something globally for climate change.

Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

I definitely drink lots of water. I use this Decleor Neroli Oil to moisturize - no matter what the climate is, it always makes my skin really moist.

Tragically, no industry has done more to block crucial action to address climate change than the oil industry.

My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.

At Unilever, we operate in 190 countries with two billion people using our products daily. We take climate seriously because we know that it impacts those two billion people - and that means it impacts us, too.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

Parisians and polar icecaps have a lot in common except that polar icecaps are warmer to strangers.

disease, scarcity, and weather-related disasters.

Mark Twain said the same thing better: "Heaven for climate; hell for society.

Leaders who display just the pacesetting or command style—or both—but not any others create a toxic climate, one that dispirits those they lead. Such leaders may get short-term results through personal heroics, like going out and getting a deal themselves, but do so at the expense of building their organizations.

at least for now, the "demand" for EVs is largely coming not from consumers, but from governments whose evolving policies are shaped by climate concerns as well as by urban pollution and congestion.

achieving the objectives of the two-degree world. Pension funds and other investors are now pressing energy companies to explain how their strategies and profitability would fare under the terms of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The focus in the pages of this book is on how the momentum of climate policies—powered by research and observation, by climate models, and by political mobilization and regulatory power, social activism, financial institutions, and deepening anxiety—will transform the energy system. "Net zero carbon" will be one of the great challenges of the decades ahead, not just politically but also in how people live their lives and in the costs of achieving it.

consequence of the global economic misery from the pandemic of 2020 could be greater prevalence of fragile and failed states, which would create new security challenges that, at some point, would reach beyond their borders. Yet governments would be hampered in responding to domestic and international needs, whether around security or health or energy and climate, by the huge debt and fiscal armor they have assumed in battling to preserve their economies.

Cars generate about 6 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

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.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

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