Nicholas Stern Quotes

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

The climate is changing, but the question is how much - and to what extent human factors are contributing to that.

The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.

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

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity; and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

Climate change is real.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

Climate change is very real.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.

The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't.

Climate does fluctuate. It goes from hot to cold. We have ice ages.

I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

The fact is the planet is warming right now, and it is easier to blame it on some human activity rather than saying we should better understand the whole problem and recognize there are natural conditions that are impacting this, too.

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.