Climate Change Quotes - Page 26

• The report on climate change said that humans are very likely making the planet warmer. To which Hillary Clinton said, 'Hey, can't blame me for that one.'

  Jay Leno

  Climate, Hey, Blame

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• To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.

  Martin O'Malley

  College, Climate, Study

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• People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

  Bill Nye

  Keys, Hands, People

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• You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you, it is." He continued, "climate change is directly related to the potential of greater conflict and greater instability. I'm telling you that there are people in parts of the world - in Africa today, they fight each other over water. They kill each over it. And if glaciers are melting and there's less water available and more people, that is a challenge we have to face.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Fighting, People

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• Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

  Deval Patrick

  Two, Years, Next

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• What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?

  David Remnick

  Long, Waiting, President

  David Remnick's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 11, 2014.

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• So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.

  Roz Savage

  War, Views, Opposites

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• Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it's a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb - If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

  Lizzie Borden

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

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• When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Teenager, Giving

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• Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  Environmental, Earth, Climate

  "Experts: Climate Change Threatens Peace" by Charles J. Hanley, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Real, Opportunity, Environmental

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• Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

  Al Gore

  Environment, Prosperity, Pollution

  "Bush, Gore Duel Over Energy Policy" by Carter M. Yang, abcnews.go.com.

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• Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

  Will Steffen

  Impact, Ecosystems, Climate

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• The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.

  Raimond Gaita

  People, Climate, Generations

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• Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Cutting, Opportunity

  "Firms offered help shrinking carbon footprints" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Opportunity, Climate

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Believe, Recovery

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

  Toby Robins

  Business, Environmental, Climate

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• It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Real, Responsibility

  "Sustainability is central to survival" by Jonathan Porritt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2006.

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• There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Opposites, Holocaust, Way

  "Postlethwaite lambasts climate deniers on eve of green film premiere" by Felicity Carus, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2009.

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• The debate on climate change and global warming has been intensely polarized. A great deal of this 'noise' has clouded the very real and emerging issues that we as an industry and society need to address.

  Johnny Chan

  Real, Issues, Climate

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• Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Profound, Climate

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• I believe the earth gets warmer, and I also believe the earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man through the production of CO2 which is a trace gas in the atmosphere and the manmade part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all of the other factors.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I know climate change is a hoax – of course – but places that have never seen this type of winter weather got hit by it. More than a half a million southerners have been left in the dark --- and then the storm hit.

  Bill Maher

  Dark, Winter, Weather

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