Peggy Noonan Quotes

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.

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

The average global temperature has increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880, with two-thirds of the warming occurring since 1975.

If we don’t tackle these problems soon, they will tackle us.

This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.

We have to take immediate and durable action on climate change.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

We had global warming between 1940 and 1998. Since then, we haven't had a rise in temperature. That doesn't mean we don't have a problem. If that problem is going to be solved, it ought to be solved by an international treaty.

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

The only way to do it is to do it.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.

Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.