Climate Quotes - Page 35

• I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?

  Tucker Carlson

  Country, Mean, Men

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Oil, People, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Donald Trump believes that climate change is a hoax. Now, this is not just a stupid expression, but it is incredibly dangerous.

  Bernie Sanders

  Stupid, Believe, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cnn, Looks, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• "Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

  Rush Limbaugh

  Clinton, Bother, Humans

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity linked to climate change when he has gone on record as saying that he doesn't believe it and we're gonna get people out of the EPA who do and we're gonna stop playing games with this. Why would he say it? [Donald Trump] wants to build a bridge with the opposition. This is why you don't see me at Trump Tower going up and down the elevators.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Play, Games

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.

  Werner Herzog

  Daredevil, Not Interested, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like Thailand, and I love coming to Asia with the whole vibe, food, temperature, and climate.

  Alistair Overeem

  Temperature, Thailand, Asia

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• When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

  Moby

  Issues, Political, Looks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.

  Moby

  Horse, Political Will, Breathing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

  Moby

  Cities, People, Addiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Civilization

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• That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really announced that this was going on, and since then the accumulation of data and wickedly hot years has served to only congeal that consensus much more firmly.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Data, Together

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Lasts, Rapids

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Data, Issues

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the world, and second of all did all the science originally around climate and global warming and presented that to the world, has been the country that has refused to participate in a constructive way to the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, World, Way

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• [Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.

  Bill McKibben

  Cities, Numbers, Political

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Fighting, Protection

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Might, Few Words

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.

  Bill McKibben

  Technology, Years, Would Be

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we'll dawdle.

  Bill McKibben

  Essentials, Needs, Peril

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

  Bill McKibben

  Keys, Moments, Crisis

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that - I think because everybody assumed that reasonable heads would prevail and do the right thing - and why would you need to have a huge movement in order to cause our leaders to deal with the most serious problem that they face. In a rational world you wouldn't. They would deal with it.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Order, Leader

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything in US history in the last 30 years have all been centred around the climate.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Lasts, Action

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Problem, Climate Change, Huge

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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