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Quotes About Climate

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.
~ David Pocock
Olive trees grow in the same climate and soil conditions as grapes. The olive oil people have been up in Napa Valley all along, going, "Hey, how do we get a piece of this action?
~ Mary Roach
If climate change proves to be mild but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may find we have stopped a nose bleed by putting a tourniquet round our neck.
~ Matt Ridley
Standing by while global warming happens is killing the Christ. Ecocide is a form of killing Christ.
~ Matthew Fox
This was England. There was always rain in the future.
~ Maureen Johnson
This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
~ Barack Obama
En ese mundo —de cadenas de suministro globales, transferencias de capital instantáneas, redes terroristas transnacionales, cambio climático, migraciones masivas y cada vez mayor complejidad— aprenderemos a convivir, a cooperar los unos con los otros y a reconocer la dignidad de los demás, o pereceremos.
~ Barack Obama
inaction and acrimony while the planet slowly burned.
~ Barack Obama
If I aspired to lead the free world, I decided, I'd have to make climate change a priority of my campaign and my presidency.
~ Barack Obama
In contrast to his father, George W. Bush and members of his administration actively downplayed evidence of a warming planet and refused to engage in international efforts to curb greenhouse gases, despite the fact that for the first half of his presidency the United States ranked as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide. As
~ Barack Obama
minimized the conflict between action on climate change and economic growth and made a point of emphasizing the nonenvironmental benefits of improving energy efficiency, including its potential to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
~ Barack Obama
If you believed in climate science, then the carbon dioxide pouring out of automobile tailpipes clearly qualified as air pollution.
~ Barack Obama
The Middle East and North Africa are almost out of water. Asia's underwater. Syria is dystopian, Somalia, Bangladesh, dystopian. Everybody's getting weather that never happened before. Melting permafrost means we've got like, a minute to turn this mess around, or else it's going to stop us.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Finally Cub said, They don't call it global weirding. I know. But I think that's actually the idea. Cub shook his head. Weather is the Lord's business.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The climate of Barrow is Arctic. Temperatures range from cold as shit to fucking freezing.
~ Steve Niles
Los rumiantes del mundo son responsables, aproximadamente, de un 50 por ciento más de gas de efecto invernadero que todo el sector de los transportes.
~ Steven D. Levitt
carbono. No hay nada especial en el nivel actual de dióxido de carbono, ni en el nivel actual del mar, ni en las temperaturas actuales. Lo perjudicial son los cambios rápidos. En general, el aumento de dióxido de carbono es probablemente bueno para la biosfera; solo que está aumentando demasiado deprisa.» Los caballeros de IV aportan nuevos ejemplos de creencias erróneas sobre el calentamiento global. La
~ Steven D. Levitt
Nonetheless, a movement within the American political right, heavily underwritten by fossil fuel interests, has prosecuted a fanatical and mendacious campaign to deny that greenhouse gases are warming the planet.47 In doing so they have advanced the conspiracy theory that the scientific community is fatally infected with political correctness and ideologically committed to a government takeover of the economy.
~ Steven Pinker
Syntax overrides carbon dioxide.
~ Steven Pinker
The enlightened response to climate change is to figure out how to get the most energy with the least emission of greenhouse gases.
~ Steven Pinker
Covid quackery, climate denial, and conspiracy theories are symptoms of what some are calling an epistemological crisis and a post-truth era.
~ Steven Pinker
There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion of nuclear power.
~ Steven Pinker