Change Climate Quotes

#1. I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

Charles Bronfman

#2. Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a lot to think about in terms of what's coming down the pike into the world's oceans, too.

Rufus Wainwright

#3. I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

Richard Eyre

#4. On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

Kofi Annan

#5. The climate change argument is absolute crap

Tony Abbott

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

Alex Steffen

#9. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

Katharine Hayhoe

#10. My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

James Inhofe

#11. For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

Barack Obama

#12. Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.

Frances Beinecke

#13. Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

Roy Spencer

#14. I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

James Lovelock

#15. 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

#16. I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

Scarlett Johansson

#17. Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

Heinz Fischer

#18. 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

#19. Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#20. My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.

Bill McKibben

#21. Very few people on earth ever get to say: "I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing." If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say.

Bill McKibben

#22. Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

Hillary Clinton

#23. 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

#24. People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

David Titley

#25. Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

John F. Kerry

#26. Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

David Horsey

#27. Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

Chris De Freitas

#28. 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

#29. The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

Mary Robinson

#30. The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.

Margaret D. Klein

#31. Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Pope John Paul II

#32. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

George W. Bush

#33. Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.

David J. C. MacKay

#34. Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Barack Obama

#35. This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

Arthur B. Robinson

#36. To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.

Martin O'Malley

#37. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,

Alain J. P. Belda

#38. If we deny climate change and don't care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.

M.F. Moonzajer

#39. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

Ellen Goodman

#40. 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

#41. Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

James Hansen

#42. Climate change is very real.

Debbie Stabenow

#43. In a climate of constant technological change.

Barack Obama

#44. For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Ewan McGregor

#45. We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

Ramez Naam

#46. Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it's a reality.

Astrid Noklebye Heiberg

#47. Climate change is not just a problem for the future. It is impacting us every day, everywhere.

Vandana Shiva

#48. The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.

Barack Obama

#49. The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

Jim Yong Kim

#50. Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

Freeman Dyson

#51. We are now running out of time.

Stefan Rahmstorf

#52. One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

Tim Flannery

#53. 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

#54. Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Alfred W. Crosby

#55. Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

Margaret D. Klein

#56. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

#57. In order to combat climate change, there's a real need to start localizing our economies

Naomi Klein

#58. Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Nicholas Stern

#59. The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.

Enric Sala

#60. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

John Boehner

#61. According to Bastardi, human-induced climate change contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. So to look for input of energy into the atmosphere, you have to come from a foreign source.

Joe Bastardi

#62. It could just be a shift on the axis.

Bill Cassidy

#63. Climate change is a reality.

Joseph Stiglitz

#64. I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

Joe Barton

#65. It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.

Terry Tempest Williams

#66. The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.

M.F. Moonzajer

#67. Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

Margaret Beckett

#68. If climate change issues are not adequately addressed - if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don't have it on their radar screens - then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

Christine Lagarde

#69. We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

Christiana Figueres

#70. Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it's only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

Ban Ki-moon

#71. I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

Ma Jun

#72. People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

John Holdren

#73. Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC ... The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium ... which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'

Richard Keen

#74. Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

Christiana Figueres

#75. Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

Chelsea Clinton

#76. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant

George C. Marshall

#77. Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Jeff Goodell

#78. Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

Margaret Catley-Carlson

#79. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

Joan Ruddock

#80. The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.

Mario J. Molina

#81. There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'.

Mohith Agadi

#82. We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

Malcolm Turnbull

#83. Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

John Gummer

#84. A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.

Larry Brilliant

#85. When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#86. 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

#87. I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

Frances Beinecke

#88. The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#89. 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

#90. It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Steve King

#91. I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

Avi Lewis

#92. Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs ... We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.

Mike Hulme

#93. Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Peter Lilley

#94. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.

Kev Heritage

#95. In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming.

Joanne Nova

#96. Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.

David Titley

#97. In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

Bill McKibben

#98. Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.

Bill Nye

#99. Our changing climate has changed our politics

Hilary Benn

#100. I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

Naomi Klein