Climate Change Quotes And Sayings

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“Silent Summer – a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.”
– Mark Lynas

“Dad, I’m scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going to do to fix it?”
– Mary Doerr

“At [the current] rate, it will take almost 200 years to get the tenfold improvement we need. The deep changes required across the global economy will not happen
without new incentives and policies at the national and international level.”
– McKinsey and Company

“Climate change will bring warm, wet weather, which will encourage plants to grow, followed by long periods of drought, during which they will burn. We can
already see this in Florida.”
– Meinrat Andreae

“Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even
bigger cuts if we’re going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity…The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest
step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.”
– Michael Meacher

“Americans are driving more in less-efficient vehicles. Sales of sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks have been amazingly strong considering the recession,
and low pump prices are keeping people on the roads.”
– Mike Lucky

“Huge temperature swings and a doubling of precipitation have occurred “in periods as short as decades to years.”
– National Academy of Sciences

“A firm and ever-growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.”
– New Scientist

“It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. Geological, archaeological, oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, winds and other climatic variables. We therefore need to equip nations to become resilient to the full range of these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth generation.”
– Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

“Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative
activity; it is a sacred act.”
– Paul Hawken

“How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to
have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?”
– Paul Hawken

“A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.”
– Peter Barrett

“Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.”
– Prince Charles

“If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can’t wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for endless tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can’t wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”
– Prince Charles

“If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them — if I’m still alive by then — to say, ‘Why didn’t you do
something about it?’, when you could have done.”
– Prince Charles

“God has charged us to be loving and responsible stewards of creation — but global warming threatens all creation.”
– Rev. Milton Jordan

“The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant
changes.”
– Richard Alley

“All the world’s energy could be achieved by solar many thousands of times over.”
– Roger Booth

“Climate Change is caused by human emissions; it moves faster or slower partly in response to our rate of emissions, but also because of natural “tipping points” that make the planet take things in its own hands.”
– Sharon Astyk

“A 2°C warming would be a magnitude of warming greater than any that human civilization has ever experienced. We would need to return to the Miocene era,
some 5–25 million years ago, to find a climate that is warmer than today’s by more than 2°C.”
– Simon Retallack

“In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”
– Sir David King

“There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Climatism is the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate.”
– Steve Goreham

“Negotiations began on a protocol to establish legally binding limitations or reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.”
– Susan R. Fletcher

“I’m in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking
toward the cliff.”
– Terry Joyce

“Climate change is not simply a matter of slowly rising temperatures and seas; it affects all aspects of our way of life: extreme weather costs billions of dollars in property damage, insurance premiums, health and welfare spending, and lost productivity.”
– The Climate Institute

“Climate-related disasters—be they short and sudden, like cyclones, or long term and chronic, like drought—can set in motion a cascade of problems: loss of lives and livelihoods, environmental deterioration, strain on family relations and finances, emotional fallout, and the movement of large groups of people.”
– The Climate Institute

“Increasingly recognised and reported is the mental health dimension of disaster. In recent years, a body of evidence has emerged showing just how insidious, pervasive, deep and—for some people and communities—profoundly dangerous the mental health impacts of climate change-related disasters can be.”
– The Climate Institute

“Climate change presents a unique challenge for economics. It is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.”
– The Stern Report

“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ’til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
– Thomas Alva Edison

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