Climate Quotes

• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Doe, Borders

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• Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Rainy Day, Garden

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

  Pope Francis

  Home, Looks, Earth

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.19

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• A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

  Donella Meadows

  Environmental, President, World

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• The European nations take climate change very seriously.

  Donella Meadows

  Europe, Politics, Nations

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• George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

  Donella Meadows

  Texas, Care, Climate Change

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• Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

  Peter Garrett

  Cutting, Needs, Looks

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

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• Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Race, America, Different

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Japan, Earthquakes

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• I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

  Emanuel Celler

  Taken, Color, Rose

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

  Roy Barnes

  Islands, Blue, Rivers

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• Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

  Kenny Guinn

  Tourism, Double Standard, Economic

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• It is your human environment that makes climate

  Mark Twain

  People, Humanity, Novelists

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

  Tim Yeo

  Change, Years, Issues

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• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Choices, Facts

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

  John Hanning Speke

  Trust, Sorry, Trying

  John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.11, Amberley Publishing Limited

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• Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Usa, Effort, President

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• Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

  Penelope Lively

  Writing, Novel

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• I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

  Scott Stapp

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Way

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• Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

  James Lovelock

  Years, Lifetime, Seeing

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• Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

  Susan Collins

  Coal, Action, Arctic

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• Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

  Peter Garrett

  Community, Matter, Interest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

  Peter Garrett

  Lying, Responsibility, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Understanding, Research

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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