Climate Quotes - Page 7

• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Light, Feelings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

  Jack Layton

  Believe, Challenges, Canada

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• The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

  Freeman Dyson

  Scare, Facts, Reason Why

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

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• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

  William H. Calvin

  Years, Atmosphere, Growth

  William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press

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• We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual action that actually matters is not being an individual. It's joining together with other people in groups large enough to change the political dynamic around climate change.

  Bill McKibben

  Past, Differences, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

  Van Jones

  Coal, Renewable Resources, Problem

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Hydrogen, Forget

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• Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

  Peter Welch

  Home, Oil, America

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Rep. Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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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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• Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Mph, Wind, Four

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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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• 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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• California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Children, Destiny, Land

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• Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

  Trent Reznor

  Luxury, Political, Apathy

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• The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Believe, Yield, Oil

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• So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”

  Amy Goodman

  New York, Iraq, Environmental

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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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• The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Growth

  "Global Temperature Update Through 2012" by James Hansen, M. Sato and R. Ruedy, January 15, 2013.

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• Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable energy, local organic agriculture or transit systems genuinely accountable to their users.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Agriculture, Community

  "Why Conservatives Deny Climate Change" by Bill Shireman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.

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• At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Country, Jobs, Pace

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• So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

  Naomi Klein

  Fate, Our World, Choices

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

  James Lovelock

  People, Fool, Pairs

  "James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years". www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2006.

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