Quotes About Climate

Actually, climate change is really about the wellbeing of people. It is not a very vague concept or a vague problem that is out of our everyday lives. It is actually affecting our everyday lives, and this is the fundamental fact that everybody should keep in mind while working toward a low-carbon society.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

Climate change threatens the wellbeing of every person around the world and can only be addressed through a global response to reduce emissions.

Climate change poses a serious threat to global prosperity, security and wellbeing.

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.

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.

I got to see all of the west coast, which is so beautiful and so different from Kentucky. I also got to see a lot of the northeast during the snowy season. I had never experienced anything like that or temperatures like that. In 2017, I saw 47 states.

I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters.

Every time I write an article pointing out there is no scientific consensus on the extent of man-made - as opposed to natural - climate change, or that attacks on genetically modified food are flawed, I am accused, quite seriously, of being on the payroll of Monsanto or Western Mining.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

Climate change is a humongous challenge but it also presents numerous economic opportunities.

President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.

When President Trump got out of the Paris climate accords, we got 412 cities to say we will do it instead, because we're on the front line with our firefighters dealing with historic fires and floods.

I think there's a presumption of a climate emergency which I don't think there is. I think there's a climate problem, I don't think there's an emergency.

The U.K. is pretty good at being environmentally conscious.

The way I hit the ball is with a pretty good amount of topspin. It's a heavy ball that bounces up from the clay courts. But I shouldn't forget that I grew up half the year playing indoors on a hard court because Norway is a cold country.

What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

Our climate is changing. That's a fact, and we need to have a real debate about how we should respond to it.

There are issues that shape every generation and define every age. Climate change is just such an issue and our political generation has got to deal with it.

I last played in Dubai in the summer of 2009 and it was still over 40 degrees in the evening. It was extremely exhausting and absolute madness.

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans.