Climate Quotes - Page 14

• Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Water, Teeth, Currency

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• The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Rivers, Movement, Climate Change

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Moving, Important, Doe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have a very keen sense of smell and always associate certain people and places with particular fragrances. For me, nothing is more likely to set a mood than certain scents. I find I vary the perfume I use depending on the climate and the time of day. However a few great perfumes seem to work for most occasions.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Smell, People, Scent

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• We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Issues, Justice

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• Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Innovation, Needs

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• Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Justice, India

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• The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Choices, Challenges

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• The whole transgender movement idea is happening in waves around the world. Some areas of the world are further along politically than others. The economy has a lot to do with that, as does moral or religious climate.

  Kate Bornstein

  Religious, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Heart, Example, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Country, Giving, Asking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Patriotic, Rights, Insightful

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

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• But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

  Adam Smith

  Children, Science, Doe

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Thinking, Waiting, Important

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• Time is running out for the climate

  Chris Rose

  Running, Global Warming, Time Is Running Out

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• Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

  Brian Cox

  Economics, Climate Change

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• Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people

  Tom Allen

  Winter, Unique, Land

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• Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

  Allen Klein

  Mean Girls, Jobs, Humor

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• You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where the force is, as long as it's positive, and just meditate for even a hour that day. And just live nice with them nice meditation. I mean, now, the climate would be nice, the smog would a leave

  Bob Marley

  Nice, Mean, Long

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

  Jim Morrison

  Summer, Song, Real

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• What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

  Susan George

  Worry, Climate Change, Effects

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• The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

  John Olver

  Atmosphere, Energy, Industrialization

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• I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

  John Howard

  Challenges, Global Warming, Accepting

  Interview on "Four Corners", ABC TV, August 28, 2006.

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• Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

  Lillian Smith

  Christian, Children, Home

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• Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Examination, Moments, Process

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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