Quotes About Global Warming Climate Change

#1. 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

#2. We are now running out of time.

Stefan Rahmstorf

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Jeff Goodell

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

Ellen Goodman

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

Vandana Shiva

#9. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

Seymour Simon

#10. Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Frank Luntz

#11. To all my fellow Americans who simply insist on hangin' on to those guns ... Two things: 1) Enjoy 'em! 2) Please keep them hidden in a safe, secure place where the young 'uns can't get at 'em (I'd suggest the same place you keep the textbooks on evolution and global warming).

Quentin R. Bufogle

#12. Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming ... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.

Roy Spencer

#13. Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Vaclav Klaus

#14. Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together

Agona Apell

#15. We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

David Suzuki

#16. When historian of science Naomi Oreskes surveyed all peer-reviewed papers on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 in the world's leading scientific journal, Science, she found that there were 980 supporting the idea of human-induced global warming and none opposing it.

Donald R. Prothero

#17. I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

John Howard

#18. Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth ... is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

Tony Blair

#19. We're running out of time.

James Hansen

#20. Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

William J. Clinton

#21. Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.

Dan Gilbert

#22. If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?

Chuck Klosterman

#23. Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

Paul Krugman

#24. Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

Ali Al-Naimi

#25. If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled.

Steven Magee

#26. What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Danny Glover

#27. When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

Freeman Dyson

#28. Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.

Steven Guilbeault

#29. Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Jeff Goodell

#30. The debate on climate change and global warming has been intensely polarized. A great deal of this 'noise' has clouded the very real and emerging issues that we as an industry and society need to address.

Johnny Chan

#31. There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

Stephen Hawking

#32. The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Mike Huckabee

#33. Ignoring global warming is like crossing a road blindfolded.

Steve Merrick

#34. We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

Laurence Overmire

#35. I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change ... Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.

Kevin Warwick

#36. We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Steven Magee

#37. I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?

Chris De Freitas

#38. President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

Jay Leno

#39. We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.

Steven Magee

#40. I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

Andrew Cuomo

#41. Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."

Dmitry Medvedev

#42. Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

A.E. Samaan

#43. Global warming my gluteus maximus

Sammy Wilson

#44. When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

Nancy Pelosi

#45. I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

Prince Charles

#46. In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

Ron Kind

#47. We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Al Gore

#48. I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#49. The theory of man-made global warming and climate change based on human greenhouse gas emissions is the greatest international scientific fraud ever perpetrated on the world's citizens!

John Casey

#50. I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change.

Herman Cain

#51. At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

Edmund Phelps

#52. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#53. The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.

Steven Magee

#54. A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

Jay Leno

#55. All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future ... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Cate Blanchett

#56. For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change.

Walter Cunningham

#57. We all are travelers traveling on a very big spaceship called Earth. Let's not ruin the engines of our very own spaceship in the name of development.

Mohith Agadi

#58. Time is running out to deal with climate change.

Steven Guilbeault

#59. The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

Bjorn Lomborg

#60. I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#61. The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Steven Magee

#62. Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.

Louise Burfitt-Dons

#63. Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

Nigel Lawson

#64. Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#65. Opponents of climate change reform got their wish. "Gridlock is the greatest friend a global warming skeptic has, because that's all you really want," Morano later acknowledged. "There's no legislation we're championing. We're the negative force. We are just trying to stop stuff.

Jane Mayer

#66. In my current work on global warming, I argue that the only apparent solution to the deep problem of climate change would require very large transfers of wealth from rich nations to poor nations, so that the entire world can make the transition to renewable forms of energy as fast as possible.

Philip Kitcher

#67. Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

Malcolm Turnbull

#68. We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Prince Charles

#69. I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.

Philip Kitcher

#70. 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

#71. NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Stephen Colbert

#72. If I believed a giant Platypus was coming to liberate humanity and save us all, it would still make more sense than the climate denial people do ...

Steve Merrick

#73. It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

Peter Sissons

#74. I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#75. The most profound security threat we face today is global warming ... climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

William J. Clinton