Climate Quotes

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

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.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.