Climate Quotes - Page 36

...I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933. We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do. Now I say, let the inspection process take its course.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate change policies, even when that risks economically disadvantaging them, and other states do not even when it would be in their economic interests to do so.

Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.

It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.

One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most likely, now - as in the past - many analysts have become carried away by the results of their models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.