Climate Quotes - Page 25

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

We need the world to put a price on carbon.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.

It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.

I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.