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Quotes About Climate

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.
~ Christiana Figueres
Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth.
~ Ottmar Edenhofer
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).
~ James Hansen
Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.
~ Rajendra K. Pachauri
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
~ Dan Lipinski
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
~ Tim Wirth
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
~ Bill Gates
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
~ Bill Nye
America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
~ John F. Kerry
Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics
~ Jonathon Porritt
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
~ Dana Rohrabacher
hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ'' out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.
~ Unknown
We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.
~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.
~ Unknown
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
~ William J. Clinton
COâ'' emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
~ Gore Vidal
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.
~ Gwynne Dyer
We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.
~ George W. Bush
Global warming threatens the survival of our species.
~ Lucien Bouchard
Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
~ Rupert Murdoch
Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.
~ John Delaney
Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.
~ Noam Chomsky
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.
~ George Orwell
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.
~ Katharine Hayhoe