Climate Quotes - Page 11

• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Energy

  "As Obama departs India, a push for reform" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2015.

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• There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

  Barack Obama

  Change, World, Scientist

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• You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Long, Generations

  "In Coast Guard commencement address, Obama buoys climate change" by Allie Malloy and Kristen Holmes, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Peace, Jobs

  "Obama: Think more about the economy, war and peace and less about weed" by Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Reality, Men

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• It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Mean

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• Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.

  Anthony D. Barnosky

  Two, Worry, Way

  Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.27, Island Press

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• I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.

  Rachel Maddow

  Change, Issues, Political

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• You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

  Hugh Jackman

  Change, Poverty, Climate Change

  "Hugh Jackman says coffee can change the world" by Lauren Lee-Johnson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, People, Political

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• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Opportunity, Oil

  "Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet" by Daniel Beekman, www.seattletimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

  Jose Rizal

  Doe, Way

  "The Philippines: a Century Hence". Book by José Rizal, archive.org. 1912.

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• What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

  Lindsey Graham

  Change, Party, President

  "Lindsey Graham: Caitlyn Jenner Is 'Welcome in My Party'". www.theatlantic.com. June 7, 2015.

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• Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Change, Reality, Problem

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, Disaster, Exposed

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• Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, War, People

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• Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

  Gina McCarthy

  Change, Threat, Our Time

  "EPA boss: Climate change could kill thousands". www.cnn.com. June 22, 2015.

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• I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

  David Pocock

  Change, Believe, Direct Action

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• One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

  Ed Miliband

  Change, War, Years

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• The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Change, People, Billions

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• The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

  Jason David Frank

  Change, Lying, People

  "Universities under pressure to ‘divest’ from fossil fuels" by Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

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• There's a lot of Republicans who may have in the past been critical of fellow Catholics who they call 'cafeteria Catholics' who don't follow the church's teachings - say, on abortion. But now, are they going to become 'cafeteria Catholics' themselves and not follow the church's teachings on climate change?

  Bob Inglis

  Change, Teaching, Past

  "Pope hands GOP climate change dilemma" by M. J. Lee, edition.cnn.com. June 18, 2015.

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• We need to push the reset button on climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Change, Reset Button, Buttons

  "Does Obama’s UN carbon pledge threaten much more US economic pain?" by George Russell, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

  Mary Robinson

  Change, Population, Migration

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• When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

  David Harewood

  Change, Children, Thinking

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