Climate Quotes - Page 34

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another legacy of the 1968 generation, which I happen to belong to myself. In fact, it would be better if we just presented the facts and scenarios dispassionately - and then society can decide for itself what it wants to do to influence climate change.

Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the theology of stewardship and the theology of "human ecology," it's almost certainly going to be rapturously embraced, or bitterly opposed, as a "global-warming encyclical," despite the evidence that it's much more broadly gauged than that.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.