Larry Brilliant Quotes

Global Warming knows no border. It does not discriminate. It affects us all.

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

No challenge is more of a threat to our children than global warming.

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 the biggest issue facing our planet. Extreme weather hit every populated continent in 2018, killing, injuring and displacing millions.

Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?

According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Climate change is real.

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

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

The climate continues to deteriorate.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

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

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