Quotes About Climate

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don't know.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

Tengo quince años y medio, en ese país las estaciones no existen, vivimos en una estación única, cálida, monótona, nos hallamos en la larga zona cálida de la tierra, no hay primavera, no hay renovación

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. —T. S. ELIOT

Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of the philharmonic played Vivaldi's Four Seasons and left out an entire movement, and when to children of a young age stories of winter were told as if they were fairy tales, New York was hit by a cataclysmic freeze, and, once again, people huddled together to talk fearfully of the millennium.

The big culprit is methane gas, which, although it does not get as much attention as carbon dioxide, is more than twenty times as destructive in terms of climate change.