Laurie David Quotes

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

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

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

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.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

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

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

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

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.

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 not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.

I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.

I believe that climate change is real, is driven mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme weather events, hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.

I wish climate change wasn't real.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.