Climate Quotes - Page 35

The only perfect climate is bed.

Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, whether we continue to advance at all.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of clean-energy technologies - and doing that very soon... Are we, as a species, capable of that kind of deliberate global response?

Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed