Climate Change Quotes - Page 27

• We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Climate, Addresses

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• Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.

  Ivar Giaever

  Climate, Pseudoscience, Answers

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• There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused by humans. I have very little reason to doubt that the consensus is indeed correct.

  Richard Tol

  Support, Mind, Doubt

  "Climate contrarians accidentally confirm the 97% global warming consensus" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2014.

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• 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.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, Country, Responsibility

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Digging A Hole, Holes, Complexity

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the equivalent - apparently - of 620 return flights between London and New York), so the extra 10 million by which our population will rise between now and 2074 will, over their lifetimes, emit around 7½ billion tonnes of CO2..."births averted" is probably the most single most substantial and cost-effective intervention that governments could be using

  Jonathon Porritt

  New York, Children, Government

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• We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

  Mitt Romney

  Climate, Causes, Knows

  "Mitt Romney: Climate change is real, and humans contribute" by Catalina Camia, www.usatoday.com. January 22, 2015.

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• I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Community, Leader, Risk

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• Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

  Wangari Maathai

  Knocked Down, Persons, Has Beens

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• You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Empowering, Helping

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• The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Appreciate, Environmental

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• Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just about contaminants on your plate. They're not just about the ice depleting. They're about the issue of humanity. What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China ... can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source.

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Impact, Keys, Russia

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• The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Running, Technology, Long

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.

  Brad Carson

  Real, Philosophical, Issues

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• In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

  Ron Kind

  Real, Men, Climate

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• The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

  Wallace Smith Broecker

  Self, Climate, Ornery

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• A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

  Al Gore

  People, Despair, Pausing

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• Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Creating, Atmosphere

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

  Al Gore

  Baby, Fiction Novels, Doctors

  "Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet". www.washingtonpost.com. March 21, 2007.

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• By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

  Amory Lovins

  Design, Cost, Energy

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• It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

  Angela Merkel

  Midnight, Minutes, Five

  "Road to nowhere" by David Cronin, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2008.

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• It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.

  Bill McKibben

  Crazy, Taken, Our Generation

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• It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.

  Alex Bruce

  Religious, Winning, Ecosystems

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• Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the planet in some potentially adverse way, and it may be that governments have done too little to address it. It is not a problem, however, that has escaped the attention of policymakers in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our Government, who continue to consider regulatory, legislative, and treaty-based means of addressing global climate change.

  John Roberts

  Mean, Government, Environmental

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• Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

  Chris Hayes

  Cancer, Talking, Smoking

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