Brian Cox Quotes

Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

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

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

I don’t know the science behind climate change.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

I'm obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.

In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign have rushed to claim that the event was caused by anthropogenic global warming, thereby justifying the president's program of crushing the economy with regressive carbon taxes, a supposedly necessary measure to prevent future bad weather.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.

...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

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

President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the weather pattern.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

There are those who say that climate change is a hoax, a concoction of radical environmentalists and a liberal media. That is simply hogwash.... To ignore and dismiss the threat of climate change to the economy and the environment is like insisting the earth is flat.

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?