Bill Gates Quotes

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Climate change is real.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

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

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Climate change is crap.

We unfortunately already live on a planet where the climate has changed and will continue to change no matter what we do now. We're playing a game of making the problem less bad rather than preventing it.

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.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.