Climate Change Quotes And Sayings

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“The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change — to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science — and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.”
– George H.W. Bush

“Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?”
– George Monbiot

“We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.”
– George W. Bush

“There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.”
– George W. Bush

“Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.”
– George W. Bush

“We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.”
– George W. Bush

“The message, so firmly, is – don’t give up. Don’t hang with the cynics, the angry-hearted, the whiners, the blamers, the negative minded. Hang with those who believe in love, hope, and beauty – and then work with them to make this a reality. This is our planet. This is our time. This is our call to action.”
– Guy Dauncey

“Agricultural demand for water – probably the largest threat to freshwater species – continues to increase. … Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity – primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses … – have not diminished.”
– Indur M. Goklani

“Our house is burning down and we’re blind to it…The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are
sounding across all the continents . . . We cannot say that we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who
refused to fight it.”
– Jacques Chirac

“An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.”
– Jim Titus

“Instead of being part of the problem, the industry could be part of the solution.”
– John Harrison

“Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.”
– Jonathan Schell

“As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists,
the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.”
– Joseph Romm

“do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.”
– Joseph Romm

“The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.”
– Joseph Romm

“The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre-
Katrina New Orleans – below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.”
– Joseph Romm

“Let the land dictate the practices, not the mill’s need for logs. Be patient, be prudent, be good stewards — of the whole forest… the watersheds, the birds, the plants, the animals.”
– Kane Hardwood

“Energy efficiency is the cheapest, quickest, and cleanest way to extend energy supplies, while also taking great strides toward addressing global climate change.”
– Kateri Callahan

“I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the
Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.”
– Katey Walter

“A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.”
– Kenneth P. Green

“Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.”
– Laurie David

“What we are talking about is extended world war…People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move…”
– Lord Nicholas Stern

“A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We’ve been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don’t know
what that’s like.”
– Lord Nicholas Stern

“Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet”
– Lord Nicholas Stern

“In reality, the climate change issue is considerably more complex than an increase in the earth’s mean temperature and in extreme weather events.”
– M.L. Khandekar

“Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.”
– Maria Rodale

“An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.
All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their
community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work
in cars.”
– Mark Lynas

“Conventional economic theory… counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.”
– Mark Lynas

“Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.”
– Mark Lynas

“If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to
cut the speed of climate change.”
– Mark Lynas

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