Climate Change Quotes - Page 8

• The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Long, Entering, Warning

  Al Gore (2007). “The Assault on Reason”, p.230, Penguin

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Civilization, Worry

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• People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

  Harrison Ford

  People, Needs, Helping

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• During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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• Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.

  Al Gore

  Rain, Men, Air

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• We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings, and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.

  Barack Obama

  Taken, Home, People

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• If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Business, Looks

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• The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.

  George H. W. Bush

  Data, Effort, Understanding

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Feelings, Climate

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• Climate change is a reality.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Reality, Climate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

  Eric Chivian

  Climate, Degrees, Needs

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• We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations.

  Alain J. P. Belda

  Our World, Goal, Climate

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• Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

  Daniel Botkin

  Environmental, Climate, Earth

  Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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• The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

  Bill McKibben

  Energy, World, Environment

  Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.2, Macmillan

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• Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.

  Kofi Annan

  Agreement, Sea, Play

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

  William C. Bryant

  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

  Prince Charles

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

  "Prince's plea over climate change". news.bbc.co.uk. October 27, 2005.

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• Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I’m not a scientist.' Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, Grandmother, Two

  "Hillary Clinton Focuses On Renewable Energy In Climate Change Plan" by Marina Fang, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2015.

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• The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

  James Balog

  Beautiful, Real, Iceland

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• I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

  Martin Rees

  Worry, Climate, Experts

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

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• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

  Naomi Klein

  Atmosphere, Climate, Corporations

  "Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Energy

  "As Obama departs India, a push for reform" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Battle, Climate

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: climate change is not science fiction" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2015.

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