Nicholas Stern Quotes

Droughts come and go, but this one is so extreme that it will doubtless affect the discussion of climate change.

We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

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.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

Climate change had arrived a century sooner than expected, and future generations were no longer the only victims.

We need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment for a lot of people.

The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.

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.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.