Quotes About Climate

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

A Russian fashion consultant once told me that fashion stops at the Siberian border, where instead of showing off, the prerogative is survival. The

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

It's partly cloudy and partly windy and partly cold.

The last ice age drew to a close approximately 20,000 years BP. Sea level at that time was about 120 meters lower than it is today, reflecting the great mass of water that had been withdrawn from the ocean to supply the demand for water in the continental ice sheets. As recent as 7,000 years BP, sea level was still approximately 20 meters lower than it is today. Recovery of climate from the last ice age

Yet after each dramatic departure, the Earth's "equipoise" has always recovered and the climate restored to normal. As Bjornerud puts it, "Earth has had fevers and chills but has suffered no malady so extreme that its climatic immune system could not ultimately overcome it."30

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.