Barack Obama Quotes

We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

We now know beyond a doubt that global warming is a reality. And the question we must all answer is, what are we going to do about it?

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

The net-zero agenda, a set of targets and strategies by Western governments and climate diplomats to arrest global warming by limiting emissions, is the most audacious international effort in diplomatic history. It seeks to persuade or compel every country on the planet to make a transition to energy production that does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The costs of the transition easily run into the trillions of dollars. The social and economic impact will transform everything from agriculture to manufacturing.

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.