Julia Gillard Quotes

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

Of course climate change is real.

I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I've seen the changes that have taken place in the Antarctic, in the Himalayas, where the natural ice has sort of faded away, and there's no doubt in my mind that we're living in a strange world, a world which is not easy to understand or handle, But there's nothing you can do about, you just have to live your life as best you can.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

Climate change is a reality.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

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

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be the impact of energy on the environment.

Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.

We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.