Tony Blair Quotes About Global Warming

Quotes about: Global Warming

• Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

  Tony Blair

  World, Splits, Politics

  Labour Party Conference Speech in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

• If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

  Tony Blair

  Betrayed, Way, Generations

• Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

  Tony Blair

  Degrees, Global Warming, Turned Down

• There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Energy, Cost

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

• Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

  Tony Blair

  Challenges, Growth, Environmental

• All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Smart, School

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