Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

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.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Bill Nye

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

Cass Sunstein

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

Alan Lowenthal

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Gina McCarthy

We're going to drive the nation into doing what it has to do about climate change. Times have changed, and we have to get the hint.

Austin Farrer

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Brian Cox

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

Thomas Friedman

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

Berry Gordy

Today's business climate is not for me.

Bob Hill

We're good enough to be a playoff team with those two, no doubt about it in my mind. We're a different team with them. We're fast. We run and get out on the break. ... The entire climate has changed.

This project really shows the importance of the world's biota and especially trees on the climate system.

The problem with the speeches is they get gradually more realistic, but they are still exercises in spin. They don't outline the risks. They don't create a climate where people trust what's being said.

Robert Putnam

She's cold all the time. And down here, she loves it. I mean, 95 (degrees) here and that's perfect for her. It is an ideal climate for her.

Bob McDonnell

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Winona LaDuke

I'm interested in what kind of food we're going to eat as the climate changes. I'm interested in what kind of economy we're going to have in another 1,000 years.

What you've been seeing is a very favorable financing climate in which investors are on the lookout for paper, yet corporations seem largely unwilling to step in and issue new bonds.

We're listening and responding to business. We're setting a climate that's pro-growth. We need to look at the reality, not the rhetoric.

James Hansen

Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.

You look at the economic climate overall, and this is not a good time to run up the credit cards.

Norman Foster

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

Hendrik Poinar

It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.

When you start inferring lots of things from the hurricane climate data, then you're on thin ice because that climate data is not very good.

Alex Steffen

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

Alex Steffen

The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.

Lawrence Summers

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

Jane Siberry

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ian Johnson

There is a real sense that the train has left the station, and that there is going to be a pretty significant impact of climate change,

Jamais Cascio

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

Matthew Fox

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

I encourage Malaysia to continue with structural reforms, improvements to the investment climate and strengthening of the financial services sector.

Mike Nichols

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.