Climate Quotes

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

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.

Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what's happening in our climate.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

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

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

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

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

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.

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

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.

Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable.

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.

Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

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

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

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

Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.

I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.