Climate Quotes

• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Doe, Borders

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

  Pope Francis

  Home, Looks, Earth

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.19

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• There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

  David Attenborough

  Climate Change, Humans, Happenings

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• Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Rainy Day, Garden

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• Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Ocean, Impact, Numbers

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• Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

  Wallace Smith Broecker

  Sticks, Beast, Angry

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• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Funny, Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Weather, Hell

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.24, Penguin

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• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Real, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

  Piers Corbyn

  Weather, Limits, Computer

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Water

  "GDP Not Good Enough: The Need for a New Metric for Growth in a Changing World" by Pallavi Roy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2016.

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• I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

  William Hague

  Believe, Commitment, Growth

  "William Hague tells ministers to help green industries boost economy" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

  Lewis Gordon

  Challenges, Problem, Everest

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• Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Fire, Sea, Availability

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

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• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  O. Henry

  Weather, May, Achieve

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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• In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

  Gerald Brenan

  Anniversary, Wedding, Husband

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• The climate continues to deteriorate.

  Donella Meadows

  Aggravation

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• As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday

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• Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Issues, Environmental

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• There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

  Nicholas Stern

  Strong, Impact, Action

  Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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