Quotes About Climate

In Mumbai we do get those two weeks of nice weather.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.

I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?

I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.

Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model, they emphasize what might be lost.

There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

Infected by political ideology, if you dare question climate models, your career is done.

We have, here in California, among the most ambitious climate goals in the country. It's not just our political leaders or our regulators that really wants these things.

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.