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Global Warming Quotes

This is an emergency. This is an existential crisis and we must do everything we can to stop it.

– Greta Thunberg

We deserve a safe future. And we demand a safe future. Is that really too much to ask?

– Greta Thunberg

Environmental activist addressing Global Climate Strike, New York, 20 September 2019.

I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.

– Greta Thunberg

Demanding global leaders tackle runaway global warming. World Economic Forum, Davos, 24 January 2019.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There’s no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

– Hans Blix

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.

– Heather Mills

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth’s great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

– Godfried Danneels

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

– Joe Lieberman

To be clear, geoengineering won’t solve global warming. It’s not a ‘techno-fix.’ It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

– Jamais Cascio

Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening.

– James Hansen

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

– Ivar Giaever

We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.

– Jack Dangermond

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before – but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

– Joe Lieberman

I’m heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

– Jim Clyburn

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.

– Bradley A. Smith

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it’s mentioned.

– Al Gore

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

– Bill McKibben

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one’s core libertarian beliefs.

– Al Seckel

The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, ‘Global warming is a hoax,’ he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

– Bernie Sanders

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

– Alice Walker

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

– Bjorn Lomborg

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

– Al Gore

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

– Christopher Monckton

So it’s mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

– Bjorn Lomborg

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

– Ban Ki-moon

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

– Arthur Smith

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

– Brian Eno

I’ve been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

– Bill Kurtis

Science has been quite embattled. It’s the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

– Bill Bryson

The most frightening interview I’ve ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

– Bill Kurtis

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