Quotes About Climate

The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his party. They choose to protect their profits from a flailing fossil fuel industry over human lives and a clean, inclusive future for us all.

The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their profits.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.

In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.

I founded NextGen Climate with a clear mission in mind: to act politically to prevent climate disaster and preserve American prosperity.

It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

Demanding that our leaders take action on climate change is about a lot more than polar bears and ice caps; it's about safeguarding our health, preserving our prosperity, and protecting the future of our children.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.

I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year,' said Tom genially. 'It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun—or wait a minute—it's just the opposite—the sun's getting colder every year.

We feel the weather even when we are unaware that we do.

Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world.

In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.