Climate Change Quotes

‘Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.’ – Bill Nye

‘Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.’ – Cary Kennedy

‘Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.’ – Angela Merkel

‘Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.’ – David Attenborough

‘Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.’ – Bill Gates

‘The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.’ – Joe Biden

‘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

‘The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.’ – Barack Obama

‘Due to climate change, wildfires are growing in size, frequency, and intensity, and wildfire seasons are becoming longer.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don’t give up because we know that climate action is the only path.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.’ – Christian de Duve

‘Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘We won’t be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati

‘I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.’ – Elon Musk

‘Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.’ – John F. Kerry

‘Climate change isn’t something people get to choose to believe or not: it’s happening.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?’ – Frank Luntz

‘Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.’ – Juan Manuel Santos

‘At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.’ – Jane Goodall

‘The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.’ – Mike Quigley

‘Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.’ – John Delaney

‘People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.’ – Peter Thiel

‘One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘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

‘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

‘We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.’ – Kamala Harris

‘The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States’ resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh

‘Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.’ – David Suzuki

‘Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.’ – Jonas Gahr Store

‘Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.’ – Juan Felipe Herrera

‘The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.’ – Paul Polman

‘Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing – not only because it would limit climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.’ – James Balog

‘Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘Too much dependence on the market has led to growing inequality and poverty, and too much stress on nature has exacerbated the problem of climate change.’ – Fumio Kishida

‘I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.’ – Mark Pocan

‘We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI – such as climate change and more.’ – Lisa Su

‘As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.’ – Al Gore

‘Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘We’ve known for years that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we must work to end our reliance on fossil fuels sooner rather than later.’ – Alex Padilla

‘Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future, create millions of good-paying jobs, and build the clean energy economy of the future.’ – Jay Inslee

‘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

‘I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don’t change course, if we don’t change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.’ – Naomi Klein

‘There’s something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that’s going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it’s climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there’s another blatant lie. I think there’s comedy in there somewhere.’ – Matt Walsh

‘We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.’ – James Hansen

‘We really are already seeing the impacts of climate change, of temperatures rising all around the world.’ – Declan McKenna

‘Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in some circumstances. But there is nothing in either their history or their physical attributes that suggests solar and wind in particular could or should be the centerpiece of efforts to deal with climate change.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.’ – David Attenborough

‘Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change – the greatest environmental crisis of our time.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.’ – Hans Rosling

‘I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘Listen, I think we all believe that we need to take aggressive steps to mitigate the effects of climate change.’ – Elissa Slotkin

‘Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.’ – William Kamkwamba

‘Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.’ – Brad Schneider

‘The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘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

‘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

‘As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There’s clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.’ – John Holdren

‘The ‘New Yorker’ asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn’t the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it’s dying.’ – James Balog

‘The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.’ – David Suzuki

‘In 2007, I received a National Geographic Expeditions Council grant to go around the top of the world and talk to Arctic people about how they’ve been impacted by climate change.’ – Gretel Ehrlich

‘Humans should be the Earth’s custodians, not its butchers. Much attention – though not enough – focuses on the existential threat posed by climate change. But humanity’s mass destruction of the Earth’s wildlife is all too little discussed.’ – Owen Jones

‘Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such as winds, ocean currents, and sun activity. But the liberals want us to believe that climate change is also caused by gases expelled when humans burn so-called fossil fuels.’ – Phyllis Schlafly

‘Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.’ – Paul Polman

‘We’re looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we’re eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It’s as important as the kind of car you drive – whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.’ – Michael Pollan

‘I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Climate change is crap.’ – Tony Abbott

‘By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited… The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.’ – Bill Gates

‘Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.’ – Deb Haaland

‘Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.’ – Richard Branson

‘Our military leaders have studied the climate change issue and now believe that mitigating climate change is an urgent national security issue.’ – Ted Lieu

‘The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.’ – Gloria Reuben

‘African Americans and all people of color can benefit greatly by supporting the Clean Power Plan, which will help reduce the impacts of climate change and expand the use of clean, renewable energy from the wind and sun.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.’ – Cary Fowler

‘The ‘Wall Street Journal’ is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they have a record whenever industrial pollutants are involved. Look at the ‘Journal”s commentary on acid rain, on the ozone layer, and on climate change.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.’ – Nick Davies

‘My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn’t make peace solely through technological inventions.’ – Shai Agassi

‘You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘Climate change, migration… they transcend national borders and require an international response.’ – Taavet Hinrikus

‘With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we’ve managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.’ – Kate Bernheimer

‘Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the ‘Britain standing alone’ motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.’ – Ed Davey

‘Renewable energy, including from offshore wind, is crucial to the effort to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, according to environmentalists and some elected officials.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be talking about how are we gonna feed the kids at school.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.’ – Gina Rinehart

‘Taking proactive action on climate change is essential to ensuring that Unilever remains a viable business in the future. We will also reap the benefits in innovation, new product development, and cost efficiencies.’ – Paul Polman

‘As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.’ – Charles C. Mann

‘When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.’ – Hans Rosling

‘People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.’ – Bill Gates

‘This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘The world can’t have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can’t have a global solution without U.S. action.’ – Michael Franti

‘While some members of Congress have attempted to stall progress on climate change, their actions amount to little more than political theater. We will not abandon our responsibility to our children and grandchildren, nor will we cede global leadership on the defining issue of our time.’ – Brian Schatz

‘There is a need for greater multilateral cooperation to resolve trade conflicts, to address climate change and risks from cybersecurity, and to improve the effectiveness of international taxation.’ – Gita Gopinath

‘Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.’ – Naomi Klein

‘No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate change is not a liberal versus conservative thing, but the people who profit from ignoring it want you to believe it is.’ – Jimmy Kimmel

‘We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.’ – Richard Branson

‘For me personally, it is one of my biggest priorities to build a sustainable city that can respond properly to the climate change.’ – Park Won-soon

‘Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem.’ – Mario J. Molina

‘Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we’re witnessing now more and more is a certain number of mega-trends interacting with one another: population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change, and conflict.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.’ – Fidel Castro

‘It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.’ – David Attenborough

‘My experience as energy and climate change secretary – in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind – was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.’ – Ed Davey

‘This whole climate change and what it’s doing to our environment is frightening to people.’ – Bill Pullman

‘If we think of what’s up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it’s very frightening.’ – Carol Ann Duffy

‘Climate change is a reality.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa

‘I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we’ve got to face up to that fact.’ – Gordon Brown

‘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

‘Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.’ – James Balog

‘Climate change is not the fault of man. It’s Mother Nature’s way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.’ – Howard Bloom

‘I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘I really wanted to address different issues of protection of biodiversity, water management issues that I knew were pretty severe in most countries, and then of course climate change.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.’ – Dalai Lama

‘It’s absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.’ – Peter Garrett

‘Norway is combating climate change. It’s an important issue for us. And we are committed to the Paris Agreement.’ – Erna Solberg

‘China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats – but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.’ – Prince Charles

‘We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate change.’ – Ted Lieu

‘By using our renewable resources, energy can be generated in a carbon-responsible, cost-effective manner that also creates jobs and mitigates climate change, providing a workable and affordable solution that will keep our planet healthy.’ – Tulsi Tanti

‘World Migratory Bird Day is an opportunity to celebrate the great natural wonder of bird migration – but also a reminder that those patterns, and ecosystems worldwide, are threatened by climate change.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.’ – Anthony Albanese

‘Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘Renewable energy and climate change are very important to a lot of people, because we need jobs and we really, really believe that we can create jobs by moving down a path toward 100 percent renewable energy.’ – Deb Haaland

‘Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.’ – Luther Strange

‘Our politicians debate this, but our scientists don’t. A huge majority of climate scientists say climate change is happening. They say we’re causing it and we need to do something about it before it has a terrible effect on all of us.’ – Jimmy Kimmel

”Years of Living Dangerously’ is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there’s no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.’ – Harrison Ford

‘The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels – which is not going to happen – it wouldn’t do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions – if not trillions – of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.’ – Bjorn Lomborg

‘We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA’s carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.’ – Donna Brazile

‘Argentina shows opportunity for doing good business, taking care of the environment to fight climate change, paying taxes. Argentina will continue to grow.’ – Mauricio Macri

‘Strong policies and innovation can make the difference for energy security, climate change, air quality, and universal access to modern energy services in parallel – in short, building a secure, affordable, sustainable energy system that is available to all.’ – Fatih Birol

‘It’s hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can’t even measure yet.’ – Susan George

‘Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.’ – Peter Garrett

‘Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.’ – Peter Garrett

‘The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.’ – Peter Garrett

‘And given that there’s been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that’s quite an interesting statistic.’ – Peter Garrett

‘Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.’ – Peter Garrett

‘Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.’ – Peter Garrett

‘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

‘The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.’ – Christine Todd Whitman

‘Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver’s location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It’s just such an old, outdated conversation.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.’ – Donella Meadows

‘The European nations take climate change very seriously.’ – Donella Meadows

‘We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.’ – William Hague

‘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

‘Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting – it’s kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.’ – Tim Pawlenty

‘I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.’ – Andrew Cuomo

‘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

‘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

‘One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it’s left unaddressed.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘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

‘The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.’ – Amy Goodman

‘Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.’ – Michael E. Mann

‘There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.’ – Gary Locke

‘All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future… most importantly global warming and climate change.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.’ – Sigmar Gabriel

‘Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.’ – Hu Jintao

‘Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.’ – Hu Jintao

‘China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010.’ – Hu Jintao

‘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

‘As far as I’m aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there’s a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.’ – William Hague

‘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

‘Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change… that’s a whole political debate that I don’t want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.’ – Andrew Cuomo

‘Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.’ – Andrew Mitchell

‘The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.’ – Leon Panetta

‘We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.’ – Michael Franti

‘Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.’ – Michael Franti

‘The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There’s a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.’ – Ian Mcewan

‘Climate change is very real.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today’s financial difficulties.’ – Lucy Powell

‘Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It’s both. It’s the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.’ – David Miliband

‘The problems that the world faces – from nuclear proliferation to climate change – can’t be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.’ – David Miliband

‘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

‘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

‘But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation’s future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.’ – Kevin Rudd

‘Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.’ – Ron Fournier

‘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

‘If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we’ll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.’ – Bjorn Lomborg

‘The saddest fact of climate change – and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response – is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.’ – Bjorn Lomborg

‘I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.’ – Kamala Harris

‘If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?’ – Ken Livingstone

‘I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.’ – Jeff Bingaman

‘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

‘I believe climate change is real – and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.’ – Mark Udall

‘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

‘So when you’re dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as ‘we are all toast anyway,’ then denial is a pretty good way of coping.’ – Bob Inglis

‘Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate to offset global warming – is a nightmare fix for climate change.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for “dangerous” climate change.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earth’s climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words ‘climate change’ in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he’s already shifting the debate over climate change.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn’t make it clear.’ – James Hansen

‘Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it’s not the kind of thing where you can compromise.’ – James Hansen

‘After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.’ – James Hansen

‘Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.’ – James Hansen

‘We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.’ – Nina Fedoroff

‘We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It’s a horrifying one-two punch.’ – Chris Noth

‘Look, I’m a huge supporter of Obama’s – he’s the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he’s been, at best, disappointing.’ – Chris Noth

‘The trouble with climate change is it’s an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I’d like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.’ – Robert Winston

‘Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won’t go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn’t make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.’ – Christina Romer

‘We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I’ve spent my life as a development economist, and it’s crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this… it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They’re also being diversionary because if we don’t act the risks are enormous.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘Those who say that climate change doesn’t exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means ‘low-carbon consumption.’ This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as ‘give up meat to save the planet.” – Nicholas Stern

‘My father’s generation’s crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can’t see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘I don’t believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so – while I live in Colorado – you see where I live. I love the environment. And – and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don’t want government to put artificial standards on us.’ – Ken Buck

‘One volcano puts out more toxic gases – one volcano – than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this ‘climate change,’ and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.’ – John Raese

‘Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.’ – Owen Paterson

‘I’m not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.’ – Jay Griffiths

‘I don’t believe – till something radical changes that we are not on track to do – that hybrids are material to climate change. They’re fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don’t impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it’s a fashion statement.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘I’m a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.’ – Wayne Swan

‘I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.’ – Wayne Swan

‘With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?’ – Yehuda Berg

‘Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.’ – Steven Pinker

‘We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.’ – Josh Fox

‘What we’ve got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn’t be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.’ – Josh Fox

‘In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it’s overcoming the facts.’ – Jeremy Grantham

‘At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.’ – Cary Fowler

‘The U.S. has historically been the world’s largest contributor to climate change.’ – Michael Franti

‘Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it’s all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it’s about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.’ – Amory Lovins

‘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

‘I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.’ – Geoff Mulgan

‘The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.’ – Geoff Mulgan

‘If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.’ – Hendrik Poinar

‘Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.’ – James Balog

‘The problem with climate change is that it’s quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh

‘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

‘Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.’ – Larry Brilliant

‘In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.’ – Martin Rees

‘I think Bloomberg’s broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.’ – Sam Simon

‘Just as Mars – a desert planet – gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘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

‘We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.’ – Al Franken

‘I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, ‘Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it’s definitely happening,’ but they don’t feel that they can do anything about it; they don’t even think ‘Well let’s stop it!” – Vivienne Westwood

‘The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘I don’t know much about climate change. But I’m pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact – at least its health impact – and that’s not going to happen unless you have a lot of young talent interested in these topics.’ – Paul Farmer

‘Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.’ – Alex Steffen

‘Climate change is not a discrete issue; it’s a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We’re chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.’ – Alex Steffen

‘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

‘People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.’ – Allan Savory

‘Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, ‘Oh, we want a clean future. We’re looking at clean energy and all that stuff.” – David Suzuki

‘Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment – climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.’ – Marion Nestle

‘Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.’ – Richard Rogers

‘Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it’s a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening with 100 percent confidence temperatures are rising.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Climate change – for so long an abstract concern for an academic few – is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration’s Climate Change Science Programme reports ‘clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.” – Zac Goldsmith

‘The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.’ – Zac Goldsmith

‘We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists – even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.’ – David Harsanyi

‘I had hoped all of Congress would recognize that it is imperative for our health, economy, and national security that we address the effects of climate change before they get even worse.’ – Mark Pocan

‘In Congress, I am focused on the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and sea-level rise – both of which are threats to healthy oceans that sustain life on- and off-shore.’ – Scott Peters

‘Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.’ – Keith Ellison

‘It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.’ – Bill Gates

‘Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.’ – Alan Lowenthal

‘Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.’ – Alan Lowenthal

‘Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that’s going on every single day.’ – Bill McKibben

‘We have to overthrow the idea that it’s a diversion from ‘real’ work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.’ – Michael Nielsen

‘Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.’ – Michael Specter

‘The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven’t done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent – the largest such increase on record.’ – Michael Specter

‘Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what ‘bad’ means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.’ – Michael Specter

‘Deliberately modifying the earth’s atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.’ – Michael Specter

‘Today’s voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act prudently. And even if we don’t, these problems are incapable of obliterating all of humanity, let alone destroying the Earth. No, the real End of Days will happen slowly, as the Sun ages.’ – Seth Shostak

‘After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People’s Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries – not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.’ – Amy J. Berg

‘Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.’ – John Holdren

‘Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that – and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.’ – John Holdren

‘My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.’ – John Holdren

‘Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An ‘ecological shock’ could irreversibly degrade our environment.’ – Martin Rees

‘The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, ‘clean energy’ research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.’ – Martin Rees

‘Around the world, climate change is an existential threat – but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘I have been very encouraged by President Obama’s call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama’s intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women’s empowerment – these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘We will never end poverty if we don’t tackle climate change.’ – Jim Yong Kim

‘We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.’ – Winona LaDuke

‘We must start to treat climate change as what it is – a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.’ – Jackie Speier

‘I’m not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.’ – Chris Stewart

‘Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.’ – Paul Tonko

‘Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That’s called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.’ – Marshall Herskovitz

‘For reasons we don’t have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we’re in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.’ – Marshall Herskovitz

‘In my personal belief, the big problem with climate change is getting people to understand the magnitude and scale that we’re dealing with. If you buy a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon, that means nothing; it’s not enough. We need to make changes across society and in every piece of the energy pie.’ – Marshall Herskovitz

‘Even those who don’t believe in climate change believe we should develop renewable energy. Americans get it: it’s time. This is not controversial. It’s actually right in the wheelhouse of American business.’ – Marshall Herskovitz

‘It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought… hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.’ – Judy Horacek

‘The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.’ – Timothy Noah

‘In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.’ – Cameron Russell

‘There’s no question that, um, you know, the oceans have risen, right? And the climate change part is, is a real part of it.’ – Michael Grimm

‘Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?’ – Alex Berenson

‘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

‘I think there’s plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we’re contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.’ – Lamar Alexander

‘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

‘You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called ‘scientific theory’ that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they’ve defined it, can never be disproved.’ – Ted Cruz

‘Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it’s terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change – huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.’ – Sarah Waters

‘Climate change is real.’ – Allyson Schwartz

‘I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘I hear so many people talking about what’s wrong, whether it’s climate change or whatever, but so few say, ‘Well, look, we’ve got this problem, so let’s find the solution. Let’s find a scientist, let’s find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.” – Jenny Shipley

‘I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.’ – John Shimkus

‘Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.’ – Richard Flanagan

‘A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.’ – Richard Flanagan

‘We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that’s a match for the climate challenge.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘Maryland is among the nation’s most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.’ – Ramez Naam

‘On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I’ve been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.’ – Ramez Naam

‘It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.’ – Christophe de Margerie

‘I’m at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it’s important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.’ – Douglas Alexander

‘As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.’ – Douglas Alexander

‘We don’t think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms – Katrina, Sandy – are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.’ – J. Maarten Troost

‘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

‘We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.’ – Wendy Kopp

‘I have friends who are science journalists, and I’m seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they’re pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.’ – Paolo Bacigalupi

‘Even the president’s own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘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

‘Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders.’ – Richard Preston

‘Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger zones such as extremely vulnerable coastal zones – from New Jersey to the Philippines. This enormously increases the economic and human costs of hurricanes, rising seas and changing weather patterns.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘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

‘Evolution, climate change, and the construction of the physical universe down to its atoms are processes that we measure in millions or billions of years.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature… these are not good stories.’ – Jack Dangermond

‘We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.’ – Guilherme Leal

‘We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.’ – Guilherme Leal

‘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

‘Truly, we do live on a ‘water planet.’ For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It’s the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we’re facing.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, ‘Yeah. Climate change isn’t real,’ without assessing the facts, and it’s a big problem. It’s not a red or blue issue, it’s a green issue… Not because of facts or science but because of emotion.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?’ – Barack Obama

‘In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.’ – Ma Jun

‘One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.’ – Ma Jun

‘I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.’ – Ma Jun

‘Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion’s share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change – the very force that’s fueling extreme heat.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘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

‘When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people’s lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren’t yet doing enough about it.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘We can choose food that doesn’t lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn’t contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘I don’t believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Here in New York, we are already seeing how climate change contributes to increasingly violent and extreme weather that has cost us dearly, in both damage and in lives.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘The Millennials, a generation born digital, will have a much stronger impact on social behaviour than we currently assume. Global climate change and resource security will influence our lives in substantial ways.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we’re going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.’ – John Barrasso

‘The EPA’s climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.’ – John Barrasso

‘I don’t know the science behind climate change. I can’t say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it’s man-made or not.’ – Joni Ernst

‘Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical elements are understood – climate change, energy supply, health care, and infrastructure, to name just a few.’ – John C. Mather

‘If there is an impact on climate change due to natural causes, we need to understand that, and cannot escape responsibility to deal with what we are doing now.’ – John C. Mather

‘I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well.’ – Nigel Lawson

‘Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries.’ – Gordon Brown

‘The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.’ – Gordon Brown

‘We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.’ – Gordon Brown

‘If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it’s an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference.’ – Gordon Brown

‘If we’re concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that’s healthy and strong.’ – Cory Booker

‘Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.’ – Francois Hollande

‘We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.’ – Angela Merkel

‘Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.’ – Angela Merkel

‘If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I’d be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing’s going on there. But when you’re up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it’s an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.’ – Conrad Anker

‘We can’t take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don’t address climate change, we won’t be around as humans.’ – Conrad Anker

‘Of course I would disagree that there’s a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth’s thermostat up and that we can turn the earth’s thermostat down at will, we just haven’t yet found the will. That’s the argument on climate change.’ – Steve King

‘Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to breathe and communities that are safe to live in. Carbon pollution limits are about defending families who have borne the heaviest burden of the main pollutant that is driving climate change.’ – Donna Brazile

‘On climate change, we are told that there will be a civilization-ending development in the form of massive sea level rise as soon as 2050. Anybody plan to be here in 2050? I think a few of us do, myself included.’ – Jill Stein

‘Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans’ care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world’s greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.’ – George Packer

‘I think we’re taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.’ – Jeff Duncan

‘This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.’ – Jeff Duncan

‘Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘Two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO has informed my view that our priorities must stress improving educational outcomes, rebuilding America’s infrastructure, lowering health care costs, addressing climate change, reforming immigration, and ushering in an advanced energy economy.’ – John Delaney

‘While some politicians argue over whether to believe scientists’ almost overwhelming consensus on climate change, the business sector is a believer and is wisely planning ahead.’ – John Delaney

‘Addressing climate change and positioning the United States as the leader in advanced energy should be a top priority for our country and our economy, and I applaud the Obama administration for the steps it is taking.’ – John Delaney

‘We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.’ – Joe Garcia

‘We have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. I hope that my party will come to be comfortable with this because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science.’ – Chris Gibson

‘My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there’s a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.’ – Chris Gibson

‘If the Pope wants to devote his life to fighting climate change, then he can do so in his personal time. But to promote questionable science as Catholic dogma is ridiculous.’ – Paul Gosar

‘If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.’ – Paul Gosar

‘I don’t need to be lectured by the Pope about climate change.’ – Paul Gosar

‘At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?’ – Richard Branson

‘I’ve become interested in the impact of climate change on the world and the future of energy needs for the developing world.’ – Burton Richter

‘Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change – this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.’ – Enda Kenny

‘Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.’ – Enda Kenny

‘Food choices are something fundamental you can control about yourself: what you take into your body. When so many other things are out of control and your influence over climate change – all these much larger issues – it’s very hard to see any results or any progress. But everybody can see progress around food.’ – Michael Pollan

‘I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.’ – Kate Brown

‘State government’s efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.’ – Kate Brown

‘The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.’ – Buffy Sainte-Marie

‘Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are ‘denialists.’ But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own – perhaps more so than Republicans.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell’s not going to do it.’ – Lydia Millet

‘Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other – and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.’ – Lydia Millet

‘The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears – threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting – on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting.’ – Lydia Millet

‘The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can’t deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it’s 70 years old. It’s tired. It’s acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don’t get taken away.’ – Samantha Power

‘For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘We recognize that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors affecting climate change.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it’s working to reduce emissions, whether it’s working to nail down our renewables, whether it’s ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.’ – Lisa Murkowski

‘I’m not afraid to spend money on the R&D that’s really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.’ – Lisa Murkowski

‘Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.’ – Azim Premji

‘Never denied climate change. It has always changed and always will.’ – Ron Johnson

‘The whole climate change debate gives – and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change – the reason they’re doing it is it’s such a great opportunity to control, you know, pretty much, government, and control your lives.’ – Ron Johnson

‘I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.’ – Ron Johnson

‘There’s an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can’t use it because it’s too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.’ – Raoul Peck

‘I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.’ – The Weeknd

‘The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.’ – Sonny Perdue

‘It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.’ – Kyle Hill

‘Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers… we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.’ – Kyle Hill

‘By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly.’ – James Gunn

‘I have this fantasy that in future negotiations over climate change – instead of going into that room and saying, ‘I’m defending Chinese interests,’ or ‘I’m defending Australian interests’ – there will also be an identity inside of each of the negotiators thinking, ‘I’m also defending human interests.” – David Christian

‘You know, Chevron – we don’t do original research on climate change. It’s the government’s role to do that, and we accept the determinations that are there.’ – John S. Watson

‘We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform – and to future generations – to do something about the issue of climate change.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale – we only have one planet after all. We’re better off cutting our emissions so we don’t need them.’ – Ramez Naam

‘If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today – mostly by fossil fuels – you’d have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.’ – Ramez Naam

‘Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.’ – Ramez Naam

‘Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven’t figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.’ – Jeff Zucker

‘For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we’ll have more storms – it’s how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.’ – Naomi Klein

‘There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon – I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.’ – Naomi Klein

‘If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before ‘Sandy’, that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.’ – Naomi Klein

‘We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.’ – Naomi Klein

‘We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems we face, which is gross wealth inequality. We can’t fight climate change without dealing with inequality in our countries and between our countries.’ – Naomi Klein

‘The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it’s important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It’s not a scientific organization.’ – Naomi Klein

‘Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change – they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.’ – Naomi Klein

‘The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.’ – Naomi Klein

‘2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.’ – Naomi Klein

‘As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, ‘Well, you wrote this on a computer,’ or, ‘You took a plane to this conference.’ So your opinion isn’t valid.’ – Naomi Klein

‘Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.’ – Betsy Hodges

‘As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.’ – Anthony Scaramucci

‘As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world.’ – Marillyn Hewson

‘Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.’ – Luther Strange

‘Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.’ – Luther Strange

‘Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.’ – Luther Strange

‘We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.’ – Jared Polis

‘California continues to lead the nation in the fight against climate change, and electrifying our transportation sector is the next game changer.’ – Geisha Williams

‘We can help companies committed to addressing global challenges such as climate change.’ – Ana Patricia Botin

‘There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘I’m a guy that’s worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there’s climate change. The cause? I’m not smart enough for that.’ – Ted Yoho

‘Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it’s a future America can’t shrink from. We must shape it, just as we’ve always done. We have to protect our planet from the threat of climate change and ensure that workers have the skills to compete for good middle-class jobs.’ – Tom Perez

‘All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It’s not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John Keats.’ – James Veitch

‘In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.’ – Emily Calandrelli

‘Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘I do think that climate change is real. And I think that it’s something that we have to deal with. But I also think it has to be a balance. And, you know, as governor of South Carolina, that was what I did.’ – Nikki Haley

‘It’s crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.’ – Barry Barish

‘When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn’t leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn’t leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.’ – Henry Paulson

‘The policies we debate and enact in Congress have a real impact on people across the country. Climate change, immigration, economic inequality – each of these issues have become hot button, partisan topics, but support or opposition on these pressing issues shouldn’t come down to party.’ – Mike Quigley

‘The effects of climate change are real and only getting worse. I would like to build on the promises of the Paris Climate Agreement and make our country a global leader on the fight against climate change.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘Our Committee should be focusing on real priorities – improving health care, combating climate change, creating jobs and making products safer – not attacking Planned Parenthood and undermining women’s access to critical services.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on climate must happen locally.’ – Brad Schneider

‘The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents – greens and anti-greens alike – as toothless. But it was also the first time that nations around the world had officially agreed that climate change was a problem and that concrete steps should be taken to avoid its worst effects.’ – Charles C. Mann

‘Indeed, for all Donald Trump’s railing about the efforts to curb climate change, nobody in his administration seems to have paid any attention to what they actually are.’ – Charles C. Mann

‘Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama’s orders were intertwined, it’s unclear exactly what applies.’ – Charles C. Mann

‘The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of ‘stationary sources’ of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.’ – Charles C. Mann

‘City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare.’ – Frans van Houten

‘I am gravely concerned about climate change.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision – this money not only fuels the campaigns of many candidates; it also represents a threat to those who don’t toe the polluter line on climate change.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren’t likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry – now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it’s funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers. This is the same group that took out billboard space to compare people who understand climate change to the Unabomber.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs’ tentacles infiltrate all parts of America’s public debates.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The ‘truthiness’ of Trump’s so-called facts, the questions he posed on President Obama’s nationality or jobs destroyed by free trade, has the same effect as dueling scientists on issues such as obesity or climate change.’ – Richard Edelman

‘There’s a growing sense among large corporations that to solve global problems like climate change, the responsibility can’t fall just on the government. The business community has to be a big piece of that.’ – William M. Daley

‘Working together, we can meet our shared goal to combat climate change. From harmonizing vehicle emissions standards to using our trading relationship to boost investment in clean energy, the actions the United States and Canada take together will help both nations meet international goals.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘I would much rather we concentrated on the immediate, still-potent dangers, such as nuclear weapons, runaway climate change, and so on. Sort those out, then worry about Hal 9000.’ – Alastair Reynolds

‘Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us, as Canadians, an opportunity to be on the world stage on the climate change issue.’ – Jeffrey Skoll

‘By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ became a part of the lexicon.’ – Jeffrey Skoll

‘When you think about climate change, that means that we won’t have an Earth to be lonely on.’ – Jim James

‘The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change – they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.’ – Miroslav Lajcak

‘Climate change is not a theoretical question for the people of the Caribbean.’ – Miroslav Lajcak

‘We must recognize that Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and external shocks.’ – Miroslav Lajcak

‘Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘Entrepreneurs – both women and men – need equal and fair access to finance – to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘It’s fitting that an insult largely aimed at youth has made children of those who use it. ‘Snowflake’ reminds us how much we need climate change… in politics.’ – Faith Salie

‘Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change.’ – Paul Polman

‘Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.’ – Paul Polman

‘We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without creating wealth in a more equitable and less carbon intensive way.’ – Paul Polman

‘Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.’ – Paul Polman

‘Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.’ – Paul Polman

‘It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.’ – Paul Polman

‘More and more businesses are seeing the potential of a more sustainable business model, driven both by the firm belief that business can be a force for good and by the realization that the cost of inaction often exceeds the cost of action – notably when it comes to the growing threat of climate change and water scarcity.’ – Paul Polman

‘Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.’ – Isabelle Kocher

‘The impacts of climate change are almost immeasurable.’ – Isabella Lovin

‘Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with ‘anti-answers’ such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.’ – Blase J. Cupich

‘The American people know that climate change is the kind of problem only America can solve.’ – Tom Steyer

‘Californians like to spend a lot of time talking about how great our state is, but the truth is that we have learned and executed a very important lesson: if we want to win on issues as critical as climate change – if we want to lead – we absolutely have to stand together.’ – Tom Steyer

‘With many serious challenges facing our country – pressing issues like climate change, income inequality, and education – Trump has expressed neither the inclination nor the ability to take on these problems.’ – Tom Steyer

‘I think Donald knows climate change is a serious threat – but he only cares about protecting his luxury coastal properties, not the rest of America. Observing his actions as they relate to his business interests offers the best insight into the man behind the bluster.’ – Tom Steyer

‘Climate change is a global crisis – one the international community and private sector must tackle together if we have any hope of averting the worst impacts on our health, our economies, and our communities.’ – Tom Steyer

‘Climate change carries implications that stretch far beyond extreme weather, however. The effects on public health are far more alarming – and those have to be taken into account in order to calculate an accurate estimate of the costs of inaction.’ – Tom Steyer

‘Tragically, no industry has done more to block crucial action to address climate change than the oil industry.’ – Tom Steyer

‘I’ve always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I’ve set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids.’ – Tom Steyer

‘In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn’t know how to make climate change resonate with voters – if they mentioned it at all.’ – Tom Steyer

‘The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic.’ – Tom Steyer

‘Demanding that our leaders take action on climate change is about a lot more than polar bears and ice caps; it’s about safeguarding our health, preserving our prosperity, and protecting the future of our children.’ – Tom Steyer

‘Bringing climate change to the forefront of American politics means making politicians feel the heat – in their campaign coffers and at the polls – and it’s time we voters make a change.’ – Tom Steyer

‘In 2013, I dedicated myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. Working across the country, NextGen Climate Action formed new coalitions and worked hard to make climate change a part of our national conversation – and across the country, we had a big impact.’ – Tom Steyer

‘If we are to candidly and comprehensively address climate change – which I believe is the true crisis of our time – we must find new ways to generate energy and fuel.’ – Tom Steyer

‘A number of major companies – from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S.’ – Joe Kaeser

‘The water bodies are reducing everywhere in the Rift Valley. It’s not because the water has been used. It’s because the rivers flowing to the lakes are reducing because of climate change.’ – Hailemariam Desalegn

‘At Cisco, we believe everyone has the potential to become a global problem solver. We strive to inspire, connect, and invest in opportunities that accelerate global problem solving by empowering people everywhere to work toward eradicating poverty, unemployment, climate change, and hunger.’ – Tae Yoo

‘On climate change, the science is clearer about what you need to do to get a real impact than… on counterterrorism.’ – Ivo Daalder

‘National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one’s interests against others’ interests. By emphasizing the global ‘we’ rather than the national ‘I’ in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change of lenses.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘Renewables are critical in our fight against climate change.’ – Fatih Birol

‘We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.’ – Fatih Birol

‘By decarbonizing the global economy and limiting climate change, world leaders can unleash a wave of innovation, support the emergence of new industries and jobs, and generate vast economic opportunities.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘If we don’t succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘I have written before about why climate change has to be halted. In retirement, I want to look my grandchildren in the eye and tell them about the small role the business and I played in tackling the world’s greatest challenge.’ – Tulsi Tanti

‘Driven by the vision to power a greener tomorrow, Suzlon has leveraged its focus on technology to accelerate action against climate change.’ – Tulsi Tanti

‘The world is at a big risk from climate change. We have to come up with solutions, to bring in a sustainable economy.’ – Tulsi Tanti

‘I feel confident that leaders will rise to this challenge with a stronger commitment to tackle climate change and seize the economic opportunities that a post-carbon world has to offer.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘In the past, action to combat climate change was viewed largely as running counter to economic growth, with ‘going green’ implying a sacrifice of prosperity for the sake of the environment. Today, we know better.’ – Guy Ryder

‘Climate change and variations particularly impact many aspects of life that are inextricably linked to health: food security, economic livelihoods, air safety, and water and sanitation systems. Gender differences in health risks are likely to be worsened by climate change.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘Ethiopia has a robust response, designing development policies with a view to mitigating the impact of climate change. I am proud to say that in the fifth edition of the Global Green Economy Index released in September 2016, Ethiopia is ranked 14 globally in terms of climate change performance.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘The specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable. Despite significant global advances, inability to effectively address epidemics and health emergencies still prevail and continuously threaten global health security and economic development.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘Climate change – we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.’ – Darryl Glenn

‘With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.’ – Johan Eliasch

‘I have seen girls tackle every single big problem from cancer to lead poisoning to climate change to homelessness to bullying in schools. There is literally no problem that we can’t solve.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘I think that if we want to cure cancer, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to do something about climate change, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to solve homelessness in our city and our country, teach girls to code. They’re change makers.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation’s top science agencies.’ – Brian Schatz

‘Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it’s not just Pacific islands. It’s not just Puerto Rico.’ – Brian Schatz

‘Americans are worried about climate change because they can already witness its effects. They see its signature in the drought in California, where record heat has dried the state’s fertile soil.’ – Brian Schatz

‘Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.’ – Brian Schatz

‘Climate change poses a far greater threat to the outdoor industry than even the privatization of the public lands.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘As a professional snowboarder, my goal is to educate and create awareness around the issues we’re facing with climate change.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘As a professional snowboarder, my livelihood obviously depends on snow. And for me, traveling around the world, chasing the snow, I see the effects of climate change first hand. You can tell the difference.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘Climate change is real.’ – Patty Judge

‘If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.’ – Cornelia Parker

‘I’ve begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation’s war is climate change, so I’ve really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.’ – Zazie Beetz

‘The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.’ – Anne Waldman

‘The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.’ – John F. Kerry

‘The solution to climate change is staring us in the face. It’s energy policy. If we pursue a global clean-energy economy, we can cut dramatically the amount of carbon pollution we emit into the atmosphere and prevent the worst impacts of climate change.’ – John F. Kerry

‘Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.’ – Mark Walport

‘Clearly, climate change is an extremely important threat to us.’ – Mark Walport

‘We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily weather forecasts could include a few basic facts about the Earth’s vital signs or details of where climate change is increasing the likelihood of damaging weather?’ – Prince Charles

‘The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance – more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘You may or may not agree with Obama’s policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement spending as well as about the cost of new programs.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘An important reason that we’re in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don’t have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.’ – Jeff Vandermeer

‘There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician’s impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.’ – Christine Todd Whitman

‘As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with the long-term priority of ensuring that power comes from a diverse mix of energy sources that allows us flexibility as we fight the effects of climate change.’ – Christine Todd Whitman

‘As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand.’ – Christine Todd Whitman

‘Among the laundry list of threats to our world, climate change more often than not makes these challenges worse.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘Including women in climate policy and solutions can enhance the results, leading to more economic growth and sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot take for granted that gender equality and women’s empowerment in the field of climate change and sustainable development will happen automatically.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘All action to address climate change is an inseparable and integrated part of the whole plan, and the leadership and commitment of all governments remains central to success.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘We will need to reach out to all those actors – to governments, to civil societies, to businesses – and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘Actually, climate change is really about the wellbeing of people. It is not a very vague concept or a vague problem that is out of our everyday lives. It is actually affecting our everyday lives, and this is the fundamental fact that everybody should keep in mind while working toward a low-carbon society.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘People who have grown up in a world where this was not a concern and suddenly start hearing about climate change – it’s very difficult. It’s a very, very abstract concept. So we need to work on making it very educational and very, very clear, in very simple terms.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘The impacts of climate change are not going to get better; they are going to get worse.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs – food, water, energy, sanitation – is threatened by climate change.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.’ – Opal Tometi

‘Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change.’ – David E. Sanger

‘We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue.’ – Pramila Jayapal

‘When we talk about ‘Firepower,’ we’re talking about the fire and power of heavy metal to prevail and endure difficulties. ‘Children of the Sun,’ is, to some extent, about climate change and the ecosystem… We want to deliver a message to the people without being too much of a teacher.’ – Rob Halford

‘Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we are accelerating it inadvertently by messing with our atmosphere, but regardless of that, the climate will change.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘It’s very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it’s also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We’ve always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution.’ – Kofi Annan

‘I’d like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change?’ – Oren Etzioni

‘In addition to deep divisions on issues such as trade, climate change, Middle East peace and nuclear weapons, Trump’s attacks on leaders such as Trudeau and Merkel and disrespect for NATO and other institutions are prompting a reassessment by allied governments and publics.’ – Ben Rhodes

‘California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change.’ – Kevin de Leon

‘Climate change is a security threat that Africans have had to deal with all of our lives.’ – Ali Bongo Ondimba

‘Climate change respects no borders.’ – Margaret MacMillan

‘What I think is if the world is in some difficulty – about climate change, about economics – then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out.’ – Sandi Toksvig

‘American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening.’ – Chris Murphy

‘On climate change, Russia’s interests are aligned with the West rather than the South.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘I support a Green New Deal to put people to work building a renewable green energy infrastructure that can help us fight climate change and protect our communities.’ – Rashida Tlaib

‘Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.’ – Stephen Moore

‘I wish climate change wasn’t real.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘Climate change is real.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘Maybe this isn’t a common thought that goes through one’s mind when considering children, but I think about the ramifications of climate change and how the extreme weather conditions will only get worse as we keep drilling for oil and fracking for natural gas. Do I want to bring a little human into that mix?’ – Ana Kasparian

‘We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.’ – Chamath Palihapitiya

‘Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there’s also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing… things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?’ – Saikat Chakrabarti

‘We think climate change is important enough to get its own select committee. It would be in addition to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s jurisdiction.’ – Saikat Chakrabarti

‘There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising – or that humankind is the cause. There is no evidence to refute this – or any genuine scientific counterargument in the climate change debate.’ – Bill Shorten

‘Our world is moving forward on climate change. If Australia goes backwards, we will be going alone.’ – Bill Shorten

‘There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words ‘climate change’ aloud.’ – Patrick Murphy

‘We must maintain strong building codes, strengthen flood insurance programs, and forcefully acknowledge the reality that rising sea temperatures caused by made-man climate change are negatively impacting our way of life. This should be a bipartisan task that finds support with bipartisan solutions.’ – Patrick Murphy

‘This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘For New Yorkers, late October 2012 was a moment when something fundamental altered. If there were any climate change deniers in the five boroughs before Hurricane Sandy, I don’t think there were too many left afterward.’ – Bill de Blasio

‘This is the game of those who deny climate change or who deny the need for sustainability. They say, ‘They are going to take everything away from us. They are going to take our cars away from us. They are going to take our steaks from us. They are going to take all the things that make life nice away from us. So let’s not go there.” – Frans Timmermans

‘For millions of Americans, climate change is no longer just a chart or a graph. It’s the smoke on our tongues from massive wildfires. It’s the floodwater invading our homes and record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves.’ – Jay Inslee

‘From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape the fact that climate change is not happening in some far-off, distant future.’ – Jay Inslee

‘I’ve dedicated my life in public service to defeating climate change.’ – Jay Inslee

‘Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.’ – Jay Inslee

‘Disadvantaged communities are among the most vulnerable to climate change.’ – Tulsi Gabbard

‘George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we’ll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can’t even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.’ – Steve Bullock

‘We have to take immediate and durable action on climate change.’ – Steve Bullock

‘In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion ‘Green’ New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the economy under the guise of environmentalism have engaged in a new smear: If you don’t buy into climate change hysteria, you’re a ‘denier’ who doesn’t care about the environment.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘I think dealing with climate change should be a centerpiece of any campaign in the 2020 election cycle. Yet I’m the only one with a bipartisan carbon tax bill.’ – John Delaney

‘Decarbonising our energy system is not some abstract regulatory requirement. It is an essential responsibility that we hold towards our children and grandchildren as the only way to effectively counter the threat of climate change.’ – Andrea Leadsom

‘However we choose to leave the E.U., let me be clear: we remain committed to dealing with climate change.’ – Andrea Leadsom

‘The U.K.’s climate change act was passed by a majority of 463 votes to three. That is really quite extraordinary. The will of parliament has rarely been expressed so strongly and unambiguously.’ – Andrea Leadsom

‘If we have to save the world from the adverse effects of climate change, then developed nations must lift the deprived with financial and technical resources.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘The world’s biggest challenge comes from the threats of climate change and terrorism. In India’s case, terrorism is not bred in some faraway land but from across our border.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘Obama has acted aggressively on the issue most important to my generation: climate change.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘Most of the Republican Party denies climate change and has fought all efforts to address it.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘We live in a world where over 160 million people are displaced because of climate change or war, and they have no rights and no protection, and not enough countries or people around the world are helping them.’ – Jihae

‘With an investment in our state’s energy infrastructure to capture methane, we will create jobs, increase revenue for our schools, and protect the health of workers and communities, all while reducing harmful emissions that are contributing to climate change.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘More and more Americans are experiencing the direct impacts of climate change, from the wildfires in California, to devastating hurricanes in the Southeast, to drought in the Southwest. And they are choosing candidates who are ready to do something about it.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘Climate change is real and we have to address it.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.’ – Ezra Furman

‘Hosting over 35,000 concerts and festivals each year, Live Nation has the opportunity and responsibility to provide our artists and fans with a live music experience that protects our planet. The adverse effects of climate change are undeniable, and we want to use our place on the world stage to be part of the solution.’ – Michael Rapino

‘When it comes to climate change and the environment, President Donald Trump is plain wrong.’ – Letitia James

‘Human induced climate change is real, and the evidence is right in front of us. It threatens our shores. It promises to bring intense heat waves and powerful storms. It has the power to disrupt our economy, endanger our food supply, and imperil global stability. We must take action to stop it.’ – Letitia James

‘Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers’ directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.’ – Chuka Umunna

‘Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It’s easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.’ – Weyes Blood

‘Climate change is often the first thing I think about it in the morning, and the last thing I think about before I go to bed. It is not something that escapes that my mind, so inevitably, I had to kind of express that existential terror through art and music. My hope is to channel that confusion and energy into something good.’ – Weyes Blood

‘I have total faith in the next generation. Looking at their response to climate change is really interesting and, again, that’s the power of social media at its best, to mobilise people.’ – Robert Del Naja

‘I believe in climate change.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘We need new technology to fight climate change and that will come from the private sector.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it’s a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and so I’ll let provinces decide what they’re going to do to fight climate change.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘Climate change is the biggest issue facing our planet. Extreme weather hit every populated continent in 2018, killing, injuring and displacing millions.’ – Layla Moran

‘We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn’t shunt it to the side-lines.’ – Layla Moran

‘Climate change poses a serious threat to global prosperity, security and wellbeing.’ – Layla Moran

‘It is vital that MPs take the issue of climate change seriously and support the students in their activism. They can rest assured that I certainly do.’ – Layla Moran

‘You can’t solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.’ – Adam Conover

‘It’s no secret that there are people who would like to narrow our discussions on climate change to a debate about pipelines alone in an attempt to divide Canadians – to pit workers against environmentalists.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘British Columbia’s got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.’ – John McDonnell

‘Women care about a wide range of issues – climate change, social justice. What the Green Party tries to do is apply gender analysis to a whole lot of questions that people might not think of as women’s issues. For instance, women in developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate crisis.’ – Elizabeth May

‘I wanted to repeat we cannot vote confidence at any point on a confidence motion in a government that fails to have a climate target that’s ground in science and consistent with what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must do.’ – Elizabeth May

‘When I turn on an award show, I don’t want to be lectured about politics, climate change or the NRA or a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue.’ – Jedediah Bila

‘In the current scenario of climate change, predictions of extreme weather events are becoming difficult.’ – M. S. Swaminathan

‘Republicans can continue to protest reality and stick their heads in the sand, but the sooner they acknowledge the very basic facts of climate change, the sooner they can get to crafting a conservative strategy to combat it, instead of ceding the territory solely to Democrats.’ – S.E. Cupp

‘Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone – it is the original collective action problem – it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

‘You know they’ve come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but the Green New Deal is not going to solve that.’ – Dan Crenshaw

‘We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that – how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It’s something we can get behind.’ – Dan Crenshaw

‘One of my eco-friendly hotties asked how I felt about climate change telling me that no one was listening to her, so I asked her, ‘What can we do to help?!” – Megan Thee Stallion

‘Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I’d love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.’ – Ro Khanna

‘I’m obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.’ – Ro Khanna

‘For the Navy, developing alternatives to fossil fuels isn’t just about fighting climate change – though that’s an important side benefit. Biofuels will also play a much more practical role in the Navy’s fuel mix, boosting our energy security and supporting the U.S. economy.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I’m optimistic that we will.’ – Alice Roberts

‘I mean I do believe there is a responsibility of the entertainment industry in general with everything that is happening with the world, with violence and with climate change and with the stereotypes with Latinos or any community.’ – Natalia Reyes

‘I do think we’re at a point in our history where almost all of the big, grand, challenges faced by the human race are those that demand a scientific solution: climate change; access to clean water; over-crowding; plastic waste.’ – Hannah Fry

‘Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions.’ – Max Boot

‘Conservative voters tend to believe that the ‘climate change’ agenda has been foisted upon us by an unaccountable lobby of politicised intellectuals.’ – Roger Scruton

‘Look at climate change. That’s a bigger problem than plastic, but we can’t all focus on that and forget about plastic – that isn’t how the world works. We can divide our attention across different things, using clean-up to strengthen prevention.’ – Boyan Slat

‘When you look at the humanitarian issues – poverty, education, rights, violence – I think there are positive trends. But when you look at climate change, at plastic pollution and other forms of pollution, at overconsumption, it’s a different story.’ – Boyan Slat

‘I encourage young people to feel passionately about important issues including climate change. But to suggest that they should strike during school hours is grossly irresponsible.’ – Gladys Berejiklian

‘I listen to audiobooks: the last one was Vivienne Westwood’s biography. She’s the most amazing woman. The way she’s used her platform in fashion to be an activist and promote causes like global warming, climate change, and inequality in the world… It gives high fashion, what seems like it can be ‘for a certain group,’ a way to help real causes.’ – Lady Amelia Windsor

‘Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.’ – Steve Hilton

‘We need to take urgent action on climate change.’ – Frankie Boyle

‘We’re in a new reality, living in a time of climate change. We already have climate refugees around the globe and now have to talk about adaptation and mitigation.’ – Severn Cullis-Suzuki

‘Climate change is real, and the fossil fuel industry is pouring tons and tons of money into campaign contributions. That’s something to be angry about.’ – Jane O’Meara Sanders

‘The entire planet is drawn to Indian culture and soft power. The global community looks to us for solutions to international problems – whether terrorism, money laundering or climate change. In a globalised world, our responsibilities are also global.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘We thought it was a bad idea, just the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself at the very front line of such a huge question like climate change. You wouldn’t want that as a parent.’ – Svante Thunberg

‘African Americans are not going to be fooled by any group supported by industrial polluters. They know climate change is real and that we have to do something about it. Only 3 percent believe concern about climate change is overblown.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘And being in the EU has given Britain a stronger voice in the world. Britain leads in Europe, from trade to climate change, from good governance to debt relief for the poorest nations, and in turn Europe helps to lead the world.’ – Hilary Benn

‘All countries will feel the increasing effects of dangerous climate change and it is those least able to bear it who are already being hurt first and hardest.’ – Hilary Benn

‘Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.’ – London Breed

‘In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it is leading the way on gay marriage, immigrants rights, or combating climate change.’ – London Breed

‘Everything is about energy. We’re surrounded by electro mist, fog and smog. We’re covering ourselves in the wrong sorts of electro-magnetism. These idiot politicians who talk about climate change, for goodness sake, do they really think little us can do anything about it? No, of course not.’ – Noel Edmonds

‘From protecting consumers to establishing common standards and promoting free trade, the E.U. plays a central role. And nation states alone cannot tackle common threats such as climate change without the co-ordination that the E.U. and other supranational institutions provide.’ – David Lammy

‘As the people at the sharp end of delivering the government’s commitment to tackle climate change we know attaining zero carbon status has always involved a flexible approach.’ – Grant Shapps

‘Putting a climate change lens on policy making offers a huge opportunity to make smart decisions about India’s future.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘Climate change has the potential to swallow up all other issues of development.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘A plastic bag charge is far from representing mere climate change symbolism. It is a clarion call to us all to alter social norms equally if not more importantly reduce the amount of waste we generate.’ – Pritam Singh

‘Climate change is a fact, disrupting the environment, and also affecting economies, disease vectors, and political unrest worldwide.’ – Amy McGrath

‘America should lead in addressing climate change.’ – Amy McGrath

‘Climate change is absolutely real and if you don’t believe that you ought to believe every four-star general in our military is planning for it.’ – Amy McGrath

‘The media when it focuses on climate change at all, does so in terms of carbon emissions and how to reduce them. Only rarely do our leaders advance arguments about adapting our environment and our economy to the effects of climate change that are already inevitable.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change is real and anthropogenic; and the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC has left the deniers little room for manoeuvre, but they are swiftly morphing into a new breed that accept the climate is changing but like to suggest this may have positive benefits.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around the globe. These effects are threat multipliers.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Labour’s Climate Change Act and our other reforms, including the Green Investment Bank, have been the foundation for the huge growth of Britain’s green industries.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘The problem with climate change has always been that whilst political timeframes and economic investment timeframes work on a 3-5year cycle, the planet needs a rather longer term view.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change – but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not ‘job done.” – Barry Gardiner

‘The Paris Agreement makes it impossible for any country or any sector to say climate change isn’t their problem. It has created unprecedented momentum for all sectors in all countries to take action and be part of the solution.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘In the Labour Party we are absolutely united in our belief that shipping must define its ‘fair share’ of tackling climate change, and develop an emissions reduction plan for the sector.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘The most important thing to understand about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement is, whilst it undeniably damages the rest of the world, it does most damage to America itself.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change must be approached as an opportunity to transition our economy to a zero carbon future. Business understands this even when governments don’t.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘We must commit to a positive programme of ocean recovery to combat the effects of climate breakdown, and boost our oceans’ capacity to tackle climate change.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it protects communities from flooding and the scandal of fuel poverty. It begins to see clean air flow in our cities and schools.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change is a shared crisis – one that transcends politics and borders and must be fought collectively, justly and transparently.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘There is good evidence that the catastrophist framing of climate change is self-defeating because it alienates and polarizes many people. And exaggerating climate change risks distracting us from other important issues including ones we might have more near-term control over.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘Nobody is suggesting climate change won’t negatively impact crop yields. It could. But such declines should be put in perspective.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But it’s clear that there is simply no science that supports claims that rising sea levels threaten civilization much less the apocalypse.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘Before progressives were apocalyptic about climate change they were apocalyptic about nuclear energy. Then, after the Cold War ended, and the threat of nuclear war declined radically, they found a new vehicle for their secular apocalypse in the form of climate change.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘Why are the people who are most alarmist about climate change so opposed to the technologies that are solving it? One possibility is that they truly believe nuclear and natural gas are as dangerous as climate change.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘For years, I referred to climate change as an ‘existential’ threat to human civilization, and called it a ‘crisis.” – Michael Shellenberger

‘Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘The main issue of cities is to tackle climate change and it is the issue of the current and next generations. Sustainability cannot be emphasized too much and I have designated the issue of climate change as the most important to solve.’ – Park Won-soon

‘As we double down on urgent issues of housing affordability, access, inequities and displacement, we must prioritize addressing climate change.’ – Ted Wheeler

‘The world’s attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families’ health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.’ – Ted Wheeler

‘The most daunting challenges of our times, from climate change to the ageing population, demand an entrepreneurial state unafraid to take a gamble.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.’ – Andrew R. Wheeler

‘We’re taking climate change seriously. But it’s not the only environmental issue that we face as a planet.’ – Andrew R. Wheeler

‘I just wish the California officials would focus more on cleaning up the air in their state than trying to look like they’re doing something globally for climate change.’ – Andrew R. Wheeler

‘Climate change demands a collective response. We can’t expect other countries to act if we don’t.’ – Caroline Lucas

‘Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.’ – Caroline Lucas

‘I’ve been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It’s an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.’ – Caroline Lucas

‘Trump is surrounding himself with so many climate sceptics and when he himself says he thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax then there are real concerns.’ – Caroline Lucas

‘Every European country faces threats which ignore national frontiers: pandemics, climate change, terrorism and organised crime.’ – David Lidington

‘In the United States, the world’s most important democracy, Congress seems permanently deadlocked, in hock to moneyed interests, unable to grapple with the big issues of climate change, technological change, the information revolution.’ – Anne Applebaum

‘The majority of America wants action on climate change. The majority of America thinks we should regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. And the majority of America thinks we should prioritize solar and wind infrastructure over fossil fuels. Those are impressive majorities, ones that every office seeker and office holder should heed.’ – Deb Haaland

‘I’m concerned that if we don’t do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.’ – Deb Haaland

‘I’m not afraid to talk about climate change.’ – Mike Braun

‘I agree with the overwhelming majority of scientists who recognize that climate change is real, and it’s essential that our country honors its commitment to work with the rest of the world to cut carbon pollution and address this crisis together.’ – Sharice Davids

‘The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.’ – Jaime Harrison

‘Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.’ – Jaime Harrison

‘I intend to be an advocate for Picatinny Arsenal which plays a vital role in both our national defense and our local economy, and to address emerging national security threats such as climate change and cybersecurity.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘The era of special interests blocking progress on every issue from access to health care to the cost of prescription drugs to tackling climate change has to end.’ – Sara Gideon

‘We have taken on the fossil fuel companies, combating climate change and even the energy utilities.’ – Sara Gideon

‘Meat’s effect on climate change simply cannot be ignored.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘We see the effects of climate change on food prices and in so many other ways.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘Diseases are a threat to us all. And so is climate change.’ – Alok Sharma

‘Unlike a ‘fracking ban,’ the Fossil Energy Research bill would actually help us combat climate change.’ – Conor Lamb

‘I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.’ – Hank Green

‘I believe that climate change is real, is driven mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme weather events, hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.’ – Jeff Van Drew

‘I believe that the United States has a moral and economic imperative to mitigate the impacts of climate change.’ – Jeff Van Drew

‘The people of South Jersey know that climate change is real and that it impacts their quality of life. They see that our streets flood almost every time it rains and they have seen that extreme weather events have become more frequent and more violent.’ – Jeff Van Drew

‘The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.’ – Ed Davey

‘We have been developing an ever closer relationship with China on climate change for many years which has led to collaboration on carbon trading, offshore wind development, on low-carbon buildings, on nuclear energy, and on carbon capture and storage – to name just some of the ways in which we’re working together.’ – Ed Davey

‘A credible and effective response to climate change – which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk – needs the involvement of all countries.’ – Ed Davey

‘Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.’ – Ed Davey

‘On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.’ – Ed Davey

‘Ed Miliband rails against energy companies and says the market isn’t working. But wasn’t he Britain’s first secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2008?’ – Ed Davey

‘Climate change is hugely threatening to our way of life, in the U.K., Europe and the world.’ – Ed Davey

‘What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn’t lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don’t lead, no one else is going to.’ – Ed Davey

‘Just as Donald Trump is abrogating America’s responsibility to lead the fight against climate change, Theresa May is evading Britain’s role.’ – Ed Davey

‘What’s most disappointing about May’s failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.’ – Ed Davey

‘We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.’ – Ed Davey

‘When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn’t help playing to the Tory climate-sceptic audience. As education secretary, he tried to ban climate change from the geography curriculum. After an angry exchange of letters with me, he eventually backed down.’ – Ed Davey

‘Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security – even bigger than Brexit.’ – Ed Davey

‘When I fought the Tories over climate change and won, more than trebling renewable power with a new subsidy policy combining state intervention with competitive market forces, it was world-beatingly radical.’ – Ed Davey

‘Climate change threatens serious economic disruption to us all with serious implications to global stability and the impact it will have on the whole of humanity.’ – Ed Davey

‘My job as energy and climate change secretary is to both power the country and protect the planet. Nuclear power delivers on both of these objectives.’ – Ed Davey

‘Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity – but necessity is the mother of invention.’ – Ed Davey

‘Climate change is a complex challenge, and one that will not be easily solved.’ – Ed Davey

‘Climate change threatens the wellbeing of every person around the world and can only be addressed through a global response to reduce emissions.’ – Ed Davey

‘Energy is one of those things that brings Europe together in terms of our security needs, affordable energy and climate change.’ – Ed Davey

‘What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, ‘Stop climate change’ is you just get ignored. When you get on the street and block it, people start to have a conversation about this existential situation that we’re in.’ – Gail Bradbrook

‘People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it’s coming home.’ – Gail Bradbrook

‘Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Tackling climate change can make us world leaders in burgeoning markets for green technology.’ – Clive Lewis

‘On everything from climate change to the housing crisis, we need solutions that are credible, bold and radical.’ – Clive Lewis

‘For the vast majority of people in this country the reality of climate change is not in doubt.’ – Clive Lewis

‘Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.’ – Clive Lewis

‘Climate change is a humongous challenge but it also presents numerous economic opportunities.’ – Clive Lewis

‘It is common to speak of the economic opportunities tackling climate change represents, and there is a lot of truth to this: rapid decarbonisation offers a profound economic opportunity to revive our productivity and reshape our economy as part of a green jobs revolution.’ – Clive Lewis

‘Donald Trump has shouted ‘hoax’ hundreds of times, about everything from climate change to Supreme Court rulings to impeachment.’ – Brian Stelter

‘No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘Climate change is killing Americans. Wildfires, heat waves, mudslides, hurricanes, and floods lead to hundreds if not thousands of deaths every year. But those are only the direct fatalities.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘Talking with economists, climate scientists, and psychologists convinced me that depersonalizing climate change, such that the only answers are systemic, is a mistake of its own. It misses how social change is built on a foundation of individual practice.’ – Annie Lowrey

‘There are issues that shape every generation and define every age. Climate change is just such an issue and our political generation has got to deal with it.’ – Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

‘Our country frequently seems more divided than ever on how to approach everything from climate change to the economy. I think the path to understanding begins with honest, open conversations.’ – Doug McMillon

‘I think one of the ways that we can fight against climate change is keep showing what we’re doing to the planet, and we’ve got a unique vantage point up here to see what is happening to our earth below us, and to give people a sense of how tiny our atmosphere is and how much we need to protect it.’ – Shannon Walker

‘Connecticut has long been a leader on addressing climate change.’ – Ned Lamont

‘Modernizing our transportation infrastructure is a vital component of building our economy back stronger than ever, and implementing President Biden’s bold vision for our transportation system will lead to the creation of new jobs, fight economic inequality, and stem the effects of climate change.’ – Ned Lamont

‘We have to reenergize our economy so it works for all Americans; invest in our schools so that all our children have the tools they need to compete and succeed in life; rebuild and enhance our infrastructure; and we must reduce carbon pollution and reverse climate change.’ – Ned Lamont

‘I’d probably go Green because I am really worried about climate change and the planet.’ – Kathy Burke

‘We’re facing last orders in the last chance saloon when it comes to climate change.’ – Bez

‘A less icy Arctic is coming, and generally speaking, that’s not a good thing. Climate change is warming this region twice as fast as the global average, threatening wildlife and indigenous communities.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Climate change is not a distant problem. It’s involved in all of our lives through the stuff that we use, buy and eat – which is not to say that individuals like you and me are responsible for climate change.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I don’t think I could have – and I wouldn’t have wanted to – write a book about climate change that wasn’t about justice and equality.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change: a society like that is one that is less free and less equal for everybody.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I think it is important to communicate how serious climate change is – it would be a disservice not to. But I’m not sure that emphasizing how scared we should all be is the best way to get people to care – I know it makes me want to crawl into a dark hole and never come out.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I think people who speak and write about climate change and environmental degradation need to convey how interesting and important this topic is, because I’m not sure people will feel empowered to help if they don’t feel engaged and called to action.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘As climate change moves from a model of the future to the reality of the present, health care systems across the country are facing a difficult set of questions. What are doctors supposed to do when wildfires, rising floodwater or other natural disasters threaten their ability to provide care for patients?’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Climate change makes machine learning that much more valuable, too: So much of the data available to scientists is not necessarily accurate anymore, as animals move their habitats, temperatures rise and currents shift. As species move, managing populations becomes even more critical.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the effects of nutrient pollution.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘If there’s one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it’s waste: how to define it, how to create less of it, how to deal with it without adding more pollution to the planet or the atmosphere.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Climate change, habitat destruction, extinctions – the Earth has seen it all before, thousands of years ago. And humans may have been partly to blame for many of those changes in nature, too.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘When it comes to climate change, I think that success at home is directly tied to our ability to lead effectively abroad.’ – Antony Blinken

‘Climate change, the spread of weapons of mass destruction. None of those can really effectively be dealt with by any one country acting alone and even the United States can’t handle them alone. China needs to be part of the game on that.’ – Antony Blinken

‘Under President Obama’s leadership, the United States has done more to combat climate change than ever before.’ – Brian Deese

‘Although the Trump administration cannot halt global progress on climate change, it can still hurt the U.S. economy and the United States’ diplomatic standing by abandoning the Paris agreement.’ – Brian Deese

‘As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.’ – Brian Deese

‘Many smaller economies – island states, poor nations, and tropical countries are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.’ – Brian Deese

‘Without global action on climate change, Bhutan’s tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change.’ – Brian Deese

‘For too long, opponents of climate change have hid behind the argument that the U.S. cannot afford to cut carbon pollution because other countries won’t follow suit.’ – Brian Deese

‘Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, and it is affecting the lives of people across the United States and around the world today.’ – Brian Deese

‘Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, and it is not a problem any one country can solve on its own.’ – Brian Deese

‘The fact is, we can take on climate change, grow the economy, and create more jobs and opportunity for the American people at the same time.’ – Brian Deese

‘Most challenges arise suddenly, with little warning. Climate change is different. For decades, we’ve known why global average temperatures are rising, why greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing, why the oceans are warming and weather patterns are growing more extreme.’ – Brian Deese

‘Our research indicates that, for example, the physical risks of climate change – both the direct risks to facilities, but also the indirect risks to economic growth and otherwise, are more pronounced and happening more quickly than a traditional perspective would suggest.’ – Brian Deese

‘Climate change is going to drive a very significant reallocation of capital.’ – Brian Deese

‘The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change.’ – Zoe Ball

‘Investing in resilience and sustainability programs is essential to stretching our limited water resources, ensuring safe drinking water for at-risk communities, and adapting to climate change.’ – Alex Padilla

‘California is a national leader in the fight against climate change and eliminating toxic pollution from our transportation sector because we have seen how polluted air endangers our communities.’ – Alex Padilla

‘Climate change is real, and we need to work on a comprehensive approach. We eliminated sulfur dioxide in the air, and got rid of acid rain. We got rid of lead in gasoline. You can achieve these things when the private and public sectors work together.’ – John Fetterman

‘Climate change is real and we must work to gain public support for addressing it through responsible actions that grow jobs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.’ – Kevin Faulconer

‘We must address the real threats of climate change in communities of color and across the Global South, the forced expulsion of Black people in Europe and the Americas, and the socioeconomic demands of young people throughout the world.’ – Cori Bush

‘Climate change is ravaging our cities – we can’t just let that happen.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘I think if we’re going to be serious as a city, as a country, about addressing climate change, addressing inequality and racial disparities, we have to start taking action at the scale that matches the urgency of the problems.’ – Michelle Wu

‘There’s no question that climate change is real.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘When we talk about infrastructure we’re also talking about jobs, but we’re also talking about addressing climate change. Our roads are in disrepair because of neglect over decades, but that disrepair is exacerbated by climate change, that’s taking a toll on our roads.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘Every time I write an article pointing out there is no scientific consensus on the extent of man-made – as opposed to natural – climate change, or that attacks on genetically modified food are flawed, I am accused, quite seriously, of being on the payroll of Monsanto or Western Mining.’ – Miranda Devine

‘Environmentalism is the powerful new secular religion and politically correct scientists are its high priests, rescuing the planet from the apocalypse of climate change, as the Doomsday clock ticks down.’ – Miranda Devine

‘When I was in politics, I debated a Nobel Prize-winning economist, climate change activists, governors, senators, congressmen. I debated anybody on an issue I felt strongly about.’ – Will Cain

‘To tackle climate change effectively, we need strong federal commitment, as well as local support. In Vermont, we’re working to do our part.’ – Phil Scott

‘Electric vehicles will play an important role in our efforts to combat climate change, and we’re working to make them more affordable and accessible for Vermonters.’ – Phil Scott

‘Most of us now have opinions on such things as road tolling, the U.S. position on climate change, and the correct colour of a newsreader’s tie on the occasion of a state tragedy, which are way beyond the arena of things we have any control over.’ – Jesse Armstrong

‘I wish someone could sit me down and tell me conclusively exactly who is responsible for climate change, the best way to tackle emissions and how fast we need to cut rates. I want those conclusive instructions. But it’s not like that. You have to assess the information you get and do what you can.’ – David James

’21st-century foreign policy is going to be built on countries that can tackle transnational challenges together. Climate change and public health are the top two.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘Rejoining the Paris agreement and our investments in clean energy research are an important way that the United States is stepping up for climate change.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘Challenges like climate change, gun violence and white supremacy will wait for no one.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘Transportation and infrastructure is at the intersection of jobs, climate change, and racial justice.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘The impact of climate change, extreme weather events, the reason people are fleeing their homes is quite significant.’ – Alejandro Mayorkas

‘I believe that the issue of climate change is very complicated.’ – Leslyn Lewis

‘A narrative of fear surrounds the issue of climate change, and it’s being used to completely alter our way of life.’ – Leslyn Lewis

‘The challenges we face, a global pandemic, global economy, global climate change crisis, mass migration, extreme poverty, social justice, are unrelenting and interconnected, but they’re not unresolvable if America is leading the way.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield

‘Climate change is upon us every single day.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield

‘There are areas in the Security Council and more broadly in our bilateral relationship where we can cooperate with the Chinese. Climate change is one of those areas where we have worked to cooperate with them. But there are areas where we are clearly in competition with each other and areas where we have significant disagreements with each other.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield

‘Climate change is a challenge for all of us all over the globe.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield

‘It is a privilege to play the brilliant scientist, Phil Jones, whose own private world was so threatened from outside and whose research and efforts have been so vital globally in combating the effects of climate change.’ – Jason Watkins

‘Climate change is an existential threat to the health, national security, economic prosperity, and future of the American people and our planet. Our habitat is at stake.’ – Dean Phillips

‘To do our part in preventing the most drastic impacts of climate change, and to stay below a 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature increase, the United States must achieve the goals committed to at the Paris Climate Accords and attain net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.’ – Dean Phillips

‘We’ve already seen the impacts of climate change in our state of Minnesota.’ – Dean Phillips

‘In addition to working to repair our standing around the world by investing in diplomacy and development again, I look forward to tackling climate change and immigration on a global scale.’ – Dean Phillips

‘From climate change to the gun violence epidemic, our nation faces many pressing problems. We – the President and Congress – were elected to fix them, not to circumvent the very principles that ground our exceptional democracy.’ – Dean Phillips

‘Climate change is an urgent problem and we need to reach a solution as quickly as possible.’ – Dean Phillips

‘Building infrastructure for the future is not just about updating what already exists, but also about planning for a future with climate change in mind.’ – Laphonza Butler

‘As climate change threatens to upend the homes and livelihoods of thousands of Californians, we must ensure our communities are equipped to take smarter action to combat extreme weather and climate impacts at every turn.’ – Laphonza Butler

‘If we’re going to make progress to protect our environment, it’s critical that people on both sides of the aisle speak out about the serious impact that climate change will have on our environment and our economy.’ – Brian Mast