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.

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.

We're seeing a lack of buying, as people are reluctant to establish new positions in a climate of social unrest.

We're running the danger right now of an overreach. It's a terrible climate to legislate.

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.

Alex Shoumatoff

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

Vivian Campbell

Slang' was a really stripped-down, live-sounding record. But this time, we wanted to return to our sort of sound, because the climate in the industry was warming up to it, ... We put on 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania' and took our sonic cues from those albums.

Social partnership seems to have come up short. This dispute does not send out very positive signals about the industrial relations climate in this country.

The labor levels, Medicare climate, malpractice insurance, general weather climate ? there's no simple reason why these people are leaving Michigan.

The US government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture, it is actually creating a climate in which torture and other ill-treatment can flourish.

Joseph Nye

The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing countries who are empowered by high oil prices and you have a protectionist climate in the rich countries. The two trends reinforce each other and could slow globalization.

Berry Gordy

Today's business climate is not for me.

This is the most small-town climate that you could probably find.

Gregg Easterbrook

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

David Clennon

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.

In an economic climate like this, people are not as willing to start from scratch every season.

Richard Boucher

In order for such discussions to take place, however, a climate of trust must be created through sincere efforts to end the violence and, of course, taking the wishes of the Kashmiri people into account,

Climate warming can work in different ways, but generally speaking, if you warm up the ice sheet, the glacier will flow faster.

Michael Ian Black

The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

Ramez Naam

We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

The ice sheet is losing mass at a significant rate. It's a good indicator of how the climate is changing. It tells us we have to pay attention.

James Hansen

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

James Hansen

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

James Hansen

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time,

the implication that Missouri is not fit for scientific research and that companies are having to move because of a perceived climate in Missouri.

The lifetime of organic aerosols may be longer than climate modelers have thought, and this could have a huge effect on climate.

The troubles we have come through over the past three or four years are not good for morale. I have had people say 'We are so thankful there is a place we can go to report things like this.' I think the whole climate is changing.

Penelope Lively

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Maya Angelou

When we know better, we do better.

Chuck Hagel

Any recommendations regarding climate policy must meet the demands of economic growth and development, especially in the developing world.

Olympia Snowe

scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.