Barack Obama Quotes About Global Warming

• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

• We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

  Barack Obama

  Earth, Global Warming, Climate Change

  Barack Obama's speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Government

• 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”

• Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

  Barack Obama

  Storm, Might, Global Warming

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Suffering, Together

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

  Barack Obama

  Feelings, Climate, Global Warming

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, Environmental, Kind

• As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that people around the world continue to look to in times of crisis, we've got a vital role to play. We can't stand on the sidelines. We've got a unique responsibility.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Unique

• That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Laughter

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Profound, Way

  President Barack Obama's remarks on climate change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  Barack Obama

  Tired, Fundamentals, Global Warming

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

• While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ambition, Knowing

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Real, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.

  Barack Obama

  Teamwork, Together, Action

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

• The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

  Barack Obama

  Denial, Delay, Global Warming

• The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Climate, Fuel

  Awake! magazine, November 2011.

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