Climate Quotes - Page 19

• The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

  Bill Nye

  War, People, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

  Jose Mujica

  Country, Climate Change, Solve

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Loyalty, Country, Honesty

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• I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.

  Victoria Pratt

  Running, Years, Snow

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• The climate system is constantly readjusting naturally in a large way - more than we would ever see from CO2. The CO2 kick [impact of CO2 emissions] is extremely small compared to what is happening in a natural way. Within the framework of a proper study of the sun-climate connection, you don't need CO2 to explain anything.

  Willie Soon

  Impact, Connections, Needs

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• The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.

  Willie Soon

  Temperature, Arctic, Coastal

  "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

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• I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Issues, Community, Political

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But with Funny Or Die we thought we could put an interesting take on it. Make it a little more palatable, especially for young people who tune into the website.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Interesting, People, Littles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting 101...In my classroom, the students get every ounce of encouragement and craft and anything I'm able to give them.We have some rules. We don't take the name of The Lord in vain. We don't use foul language when we mess up on camera...There's a climate of safety...They feel very protected.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Encouragement, Class, Names

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Four Elements, Chance

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.104, Princeton University Press

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• Industry stakeholders have said to us, which we've heard loud and clear, as we move forward on the climate change discussions we need to do it with a clear eye on the fact that we are also having conversations around royalties and the two can't be separated.

  Rachel Notley

  Change, Moving, Eye

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• The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

  Peter Garrett

  Australia, Challenges, Nuclear

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• About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

  Richard Branson

  Organization, Issues, Benefits

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• Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.

  Chris Barrie

  Military, Years, Levels

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Environmental

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• Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

  Ian Bremmer

  Issues, Energy, United States

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• I urge the media to start referring to climate skeptics as what they really are: climate assholes.

  Bill Maher

  Media, Skeptic, Referring

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• At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Wind, White

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• Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world in combating climate change and transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and sustainability.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, United States, Fuel

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• Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change, and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainability, should we continue to give $135 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade to fossil fuel companies?

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Simple, Giving

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• I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Energy, Keystone Pipeline

  "Sen Bernie Sanders on gun control: 'I do not accept the fact that I have been weak on this issue. In fact, I have been strong on this issue'". "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. August 30, 2015.

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• The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.

  Bernie Sanders

  United States, World, Can Do

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.105, Profile Books

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• We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Grandchildren, Technology

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• We've created the almost godly power of being able to alter the climate, to change the face of the earth, now we need to develop the consciousness of gods, and wield that power wisely

  Anodea Judith

  Godly, Needs, Earth

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