Climate Quotes - Page 22

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

Republican politicians are contributed to heavily by climate change, global warming, environmentalist wackos. That's how they're brought on board with this, and that's why an outsider like Trump is so appealing to so many people.

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money. The United States has disbursed tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects. Are these scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?

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

Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.