Quotes About Climate

A particularly frightening observation: even if emission levels are reduced, by 2070 Earth will be the hottest it has been in 125,000 years, which means it will be "hotter than it has been for most, if not all, of the time since modern humans emerged as a species 200,000 years ago.

Hansen et al. have made the case that we are no longer waiting for evidence of global warming. It is clearly here now, affecting a wide variety of weather and climate events, and it will continue to grow as we burn more fossil fuels…. Even the apparently normal distribution of temperature can display non-normal behavior, and this can lead to extremes of even greater magnitude than might otherwise be expected.8

You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.

One thing about the greenhouse effect that makes it so difficult for some of us to take seriously is that it's invisible.

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

The atmosphere is only about .035 percent carbon dioxide,

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

Taking proactive action on climate change is essential to ensuring that Unilever remains a viable business in the future. We will also reap the benefits in innovation, new product development, and cost efficiencies.

The U.K. and India have a broad and exciting partnership that includes trade and investment, climate and energy, education, health and culture, reinforced by the large, vibrant Indian diaspora in Britain.

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the small islands will be the worst victims.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

the continuously habitable zone, which is the region that could have supported liquid water over the lifetime of the planet. According to current climate models, the continuous habitable zone is a more restricted region within fifteen percent of the Earth-Sun distance.

A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.

You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

the Pacific Northwest has a climate and a geography that makes human beings feel very welcome on the planet.

Northwesterners coined the term "sun break," a notion completely lost on most of the country.

Malaysia, situated near the equator, has only two seasons – a rainy season and a rainier season.