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.

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.

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

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.

The thing about climate change is that you’ll never know for sure until it’s way too late.

I am gravely concerned about climate change.

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

The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.

Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.

This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.

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.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

Climate change is real.

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

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

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.

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.

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