Quotes on Climate Change

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

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

I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"