Quotes About Climate

If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create less of it, how to deal with it without adding more pollution to the planet or the atmosphere.

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

It seems like every week we are considering bills that would make it harder to limit the amount of carbon we are dumping into our atmosphere, and prevent implementation of clean technologies. The voters who sent us here deserve better.

In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn't know how to make climate change resonate with voters - if they mentioned it at all.

With public opinion, he said, there's weather, and then there's climate. You're trying to change the climate, and that takes time.

AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL.

As long as mitigating climate change trumps all other environmental concerns, no landscape on Earth is safe.

Choosing to eat fewer animal products is probably the most important action an individual can take to reverse global warming—it has a known and significant effect on the environment, and, done collectively, would push the culture and the marketplace with more force than any march.

There are only two reactions to climate change: resignation or resistance. We can submit to death, or we can use the prospect of death to emphasize life.

The four highest-impact things an individual can do to tackle climate change are eat a plant-based diet, avoid air travel, live car-free, and have fewer children. Of those four actions, only plant-based eating immediately addresses methane and nitrous oxide, the most urgently important greenhouse gases.

We cannot keep the kinds of meals we have known and also keep the planet we have known. We must either let some eating habits go or let the planet go. It is that straightforward, that fraught.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, if cows were a country, they would rank third in greenhouse gas emissions, after China and the United States.

Every year, wildfires in California create more greenhouse gas emissions than the state's progressive environmental policies save.

Le dérèglement climatique n'est pas un puzzle que l'on pose sur une table basse, vers lequel on peut revenir quand les contraintes horaires nous le permettent et que l'envie nous en prend. Le dérèglement climatique, c'est une maison en flammes.

decision will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve public health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in world history.

the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.

Quizá, para el lector, esto pase más bien por una historia europea o inglesa que no de un país tan remoto. Pero debe pararse a meditar que los caprichos de las mujeres no están limitados por frontera ni clima ninguno, y son más uniformes de lo que fácilmente pudiera imaginarse.

Now, I'd suggest you take your little self on home and stop believing that because of this new political climate we've been thrust into that you can say and do whatever you want to good God-fearing people. Because you see, the Lord may have said that 'vengeance is mine', but a good ass-whoopin' can come from anyone. You need to remember that." Mia

1]In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. 2]Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. 3]The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

By looking at individual years in that forecast we can now see for the first time, there is a risk of a temporary, and I repeat temporary, exceedance of the all-important 1.5C threshold level set out in the Paris climate agreement.

The global temperature for 2021 is unlikely to be a record year due to the influence of the current La Niña, but it will be far warmer than other past La Niña years such as 2011 and 2000 due to global warming,