John Roberts Quotes

Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

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

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Global warming is a crisis greater than WWI and WWII put together. Government leadership is lacking, so companies must play their part.

Climate change is a sanctity of human life issue.

If this summer is especially bad a crisis mentality will take over and Congress will want to pass legislation to show that they're on top of the situation.

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?

On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.

Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

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 truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.

For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.