Quotes About Climate

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

Climate change poses a far greater threat to the outdoor industry than even the privatization of the public lands.

Climate change is a security threat that Africans have had to deal with all of our lives.

Decarbonising our energy system is not some abstract regulatory requirement. It is an essential responsibility that we hold towards our children and grandchildren as the only way to effectively counter the threat of climate change.

Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around the globe. These effects are threat multipliers.

Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.

Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.

The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.

The world's attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families' health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.

Climate change threatens serious economic disruption to us all with serious implications to global stability and the impact it will have on the whole of humanity.

Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.

Climate change is hugely threatening to our way of life, in the U.K., Europe and the world.

On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.