Frances Beinecke Quotes

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.

Climate change is hugely threatening to our way of life, in the U.K., Europe and the world.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

The only way we can hope to combat climate change, protect our precious land and water, and prevent future extreme weather disasters is to cut the carbon pollution that’s warming our planet, and replace dirty energy sources with clean, renewable sources.

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

Climate change is a global crisis - one the international community and private sector must tackle together if we have any hope of averting the worst impacts on our health, our economies, and our communities.

There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

Climate change is real.

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

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

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

The climate continues to deteriorate.

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