Climate Quotes - Page 17

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.