Climate Change Impacts Quotes

#1. By the time we are convinced of the climate change impacts; there would be nothing we could do to help.

M.F. Moonzajer

#2. We have a responsibility to first understand how climate change impacts all peoples of the world. Then, we must consider the individual and collective choices and actions that can move us toward a sustainable future.

Achim Steiner

#3. The word "evangelist" means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it's hard to come up with good news. In many ways I feel more like a Cassandra or a Jeremiah than a good-news evangelist.

Katharine Hayhoe

#4. I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

Joyce DiDonato

#5. Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Will Steffen

#6. We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

Sarah Palin

#7. Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.

Wesley K. Wark

#8. The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Nicholas Stern

#9. We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

Margaret Beckett

#10. The results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#11. Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.

William Nordhaus

#12. Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months.

Rupert Murdoch

#13. Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

Amy Goodman

#14. Monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

Frederic Bastiat

#15. It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

Hermann E. Ott

#16. My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)

Andrew Westoll

#18. The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True.

Jonah Books

#19. Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference.

Ben Aaronovitch

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

Nicholas Stern

#21. One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

Gisele Bundchen

#22. Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#23. We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

Chris Barrie

#24. It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.

Richard Tol

#25. 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