Quotes About Climate

After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.

Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.

The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

Coined by climate activist Dan Bloom to capture an emergent literary genre dealing with life on Earth after it's been ravaged by climate change, this [cli-fi] is fast becoming the most exciting and challenging subject area driving YA literature.

Years of drought and famine come…and the climate is not changed with dance, libation, or prayer." —John Wesley Powell

much pollution as all 760 million cars on Earth.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.