Van Jones Quotes

We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do?

If we do not act now, we will become spectators to slaughter.

In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.

We got a dying world around us.

The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Colorado's economy is already being threatened by unchecked climate change.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

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

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

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

Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?