Kofi Annan Quotes

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

If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.

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

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.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

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

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.

I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

Climate change is here. We have to learn how to deal with it.

We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.

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.

Climate change is real.

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

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 no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

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

Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You'll be pretty lonely, because you'll be debating our military, most of America's business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it's a problem and intend to solve it.

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.