Climate Quotes - Page 3

• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Peril, Environmental Sustainability

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

  David Clennon

  Country, Class, Germany

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• I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

  Bruce Davison

  Thinking, Political, Tolerance

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Growth

  "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

  Frank Luntz

  Differences, People, Global Warming

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• It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Usa, Political

  "Pawlenty: GOP surge if health plan fails" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

  Francis Parkman

  England, New England

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.47, VM eBooks

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• We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Believe, Ice, Sheets

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• Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Winter, Years

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Impact, Risk

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• Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

  Peter Garrett

  Strong, Government, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

  David Attenborough

  Climate Change, Humans, Happenings

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• Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, America, Air

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• By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Ecosystems, Heat

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• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Limited Resources, Development

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Water

  "GDP Not Good Enough: The Need for a New Metric for Growth in a Changing World" by Pallavi Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2016.

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• Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

  Wallace Smith Broecker

  Sticks, Beast, Angry

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• We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Australia, Long

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• ...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

  James Hansen

  Energy, Environment, Surface

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• When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.

  David Roberts

  War, Science, Impact

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• First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Civilization, Worry

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• The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Life, People, Support

  Prince Charles' Speech to a WWF gala dinner at Hampton Court Palace on the Prince's Rainforests Project, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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• In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

  Nigel Lawson

  Europe, Issues, Vacuums

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