Climate Change Quotes - Page 21

• Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Serenity, Magnificence, Contemplation

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• The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Serenity, Magnificence, Speak

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• First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe - is costing us the earth... After transport, heating is the second biggest driver of energy demand in Britain. British Gas research suggests that householders who put in energy efficiency measures cut their gas consumption by 44%. Better insulated buildings will do much of the work for us.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Europe

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• But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes. And more electric air and ground-source heat pumps, drawing warmth from the outside world to heat the indoors. Better insulation, smarter homes, and more efficient heating can help us cut our energy demand.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Technology

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• In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

  William McDonough

  Use, Ends, Interest

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• All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspiring, Being Real, Realizing

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• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

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• It is deeply pejorative to call someone a "climate change denier". This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.

  Richard D. North

  Ideas, Holocaust, Climate

  "Why do people become climate change deniers?" by Richard D. North, www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk. June 30, 2005.

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  These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

  Sarah Palin

  Snakes, Oil, Study

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• This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

  Kofi Annan

  Effort, Climate, World

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• An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Two

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• 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

  Sports, Strong, People

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• An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.

  James T. Williams II

  Feet, People, Water

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• Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

  Freeman Dyson

  Order, Climate, Normal

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• When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Gaps, Global Warming

  Freeman J. Dyson, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future (2006). “Heretical thoughts about science and society”

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• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Rivers, Risk

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• We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.

  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

  Believe, Home, Rights

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• The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.

  Michael Somare

  Fighting, Simple, Air

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• Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

  Robert Zoellick

  Cake, Growth, Climate

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• I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Environmental, Melting

  Transcript of the Vice-Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2008.

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• It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.

  Ross Garnaut

  Life, Country, Successful

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• The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution with dimensions that we don't usually think about very much.

  Ross Garnaut

  Heart, Thinking, Income Distribution

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• The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what's in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don't think those issues are very important.

  Ross Garnaut

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Zero, Responsibility

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Impact, Two

  "Rupert Murdoch launches effort to green News Corp.’s operations and programming". grist.org. May 9, 2007.

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