Climate Quotes - Page 11

• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Opportunity, Oil

  "Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet" by Daniel Beekman, www.seattletimes.com. May 4, 2015.

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

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Change, Reality, Problem

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

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• Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, People, Political

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• It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Mean

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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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• 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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• Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, War, People

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• We need to push the reset button on climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Change, Reset Button, Buttons

  "Does Obama’s UN carbon pledge threaten much more US economic pain?" by George Russell, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2015.

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• While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases...

  Gavin Schmidt

  Change, Years, Data

  "Global warming made 2014 a record hot year - in animated graphics" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• There's a lot of Republicans who may have in the past been critical of fellow Catholics who they call 'cafeteria Catholics' who don't follow the church's teachings - say, on abortion. But now, are they going to become 'cafeteria Catholics' themselves and not follow the church's teachings on climate change?

  Bob Inglis

  Change, Teaching, Past

  "Pope hands GOP climate change dilemma" by M. J. Lee, edition.cnn.com. June 18, 2015.

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

  Jan Egeland

  Change, Disaster, Exposed

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• Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Reality, Men

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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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• Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Media, Insecurity, Western

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Letter to George W. Bush, May 8, 2006.

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• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

  Van Jones

  Champion, Giants, Needs

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Government, Regulation, Problem

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Village

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

  Felix Kramer

  Thinking, Effort, Victory

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• Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.

  Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington

  Trying, Lobbyists, Done

  "Sandbagged: Dealing a blow to carbon trading" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Hydrogen, Forget

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• Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fighting, Political Will, America

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother.'

  Franny Armstrong

  Powerful, Thinking, Hands

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• I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

  James Hansen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Window

  "American Morning" with Miles O'brien, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2006.

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• I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true.

  John Christy

  Thinking, Issues, Global Warming

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