Climate Change Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Peace, Jobs

  "Obama: Think more about the economy, war and peace and less about weed" by Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

  Gina McCarthy

  Change, Climate, Threat

  "EPA boss: Climate change could kill thousands". www.cnn.com. June 22, 2015.

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• The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

  Jason David Frank

  Change, Lying, People

  "Universities under pressure to ‘divest’ from fossil fuels" by Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

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• If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

  George Soros

  Long, Choices, Cooking

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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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• The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Change, People, Climate

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• One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

  Ed Miliband

  Change, War, Years

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• What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Facts, Climate

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• I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

  Lucy Lawless

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

  Sarah Palin

  Impact, Climate, Can Do

  Sarah Palin at Vice Presidential Debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.

  Roy Spencer

  Reality, Climate, Would Be

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• You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

  Hugh Jackman

  Change, Climate, Poverty

  "Hugh Jackman says coffee can change the world" by Lauren Lee-Johnson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2015.

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• If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.

  Naomi Klein

  Decision, Climate, Levels

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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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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• There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Climate, World

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• You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Long, Climate

  "In Coast Guard commencement address, Obama buoys climate change" by Allie Malloy and Kristen Holmes, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2015.

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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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• Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.

  Anthony D. Barnosky

  Two, Worry, Way

  Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.27, Island Press

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• I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.

  Rachel Maddow

  Change, Issues, Political

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• What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

  Lindsey Graham

  Change, Party, President

  "Lindsey Graham: Caitlyn Jenner Is 'Welcome in My Party'". www.theatlantic.com. June 7, 2015.

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• Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Change, Reality, Climate

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, Climate, Disaster

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