Climate Change Quotes - Page 25

• Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

  David Miliband

  Zero, Agriculture, Atmosphere

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• First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action.

  David Miliband

  Country, War, Two Worlds

  David Miliband on Climate Change during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 2006.

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• The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

  Nicholas Stern

  Risk, Climate, Demand

  "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.

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• Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

  Nicholas Stern

  Mean, Climate, Cost

  Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

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• Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

  Nicholas Stern

  Challenges, Climate, Adaptation

  Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

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• Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

  Nicholas Stern

  Climate, Cost, Adaptation

  Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.346, Cambridge University Press

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• Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

  Nicholas Stern

  People, Water, Suffering

  "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

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• Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

  Nicholas Stern

  Levels, Currents, Gas

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

  Nicholas Stern

  Climate, Market Failure

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• Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

  David Miliband

  Important, Climate, Alarmists

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• We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

  Al Gore

  Past, Atmosphere, Sun

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• Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero... If we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.

  Chris Rapley

  Zero, Believe, Issues

  "Earth is too crowded for Utopia". news.bbc.co.uk. January 6, 2006.

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• Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  War, Climate, Pestilence

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• Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet

  Richard Leakey

  Climate, Planets, Critical

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• Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Leader, Political

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• We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

  Tony Blair

  Technology, Challenges, Overcoming

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

  Tony Blair

  Our World, Climate, Results

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

  Tony Blair

  Race, Long, Challenges

  "Climate Change: The UK Programme 2006". Book by Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, March 28, 2006.

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• The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Doubt, Fuel, Fossils

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• Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away

  John Beddington

  Technology, Years, People

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• Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

  Phil Harding

  Growth, Climate, Population

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• It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion

  Phil Harding

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• CO2 emissions have been increasing, but the rise in air temperature stopped around 2001. Climate change is due in large part to naturally occurring oscillations.

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Air, Climate, Temperature

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• It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter.

  Martin Rees

  Strong, Cancer, Thinking

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

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Issues, Climate, May

  Speech at Institute of Physics, London, June 2008.

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