Climate Quotations | Page 8

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.

I urge the media to start referring to climate skeptics as what they really are: climate assholes.

I think we have a certain amount of climate change locked into the system. Even if we stop burning fossil fuel, the atmosphere and the ocean are going to take a while to respond. It's a very tough question for society. We're taking a gamble. We don't know all the global consequences.

I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

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]

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.

I have managed, in the nine months since my election, to create a climate of peace and not a climate of violence amongst Palestinians,

I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control.

Research about possible future climate change is useless unless institutions actually use the results to guide long-range planning.