Michel Temer Quotes

The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change - but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not 'job done.'

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should always be wise stewards of the earth and all of our natural resources. But as a policymaker, I won't be guided by the global warming propaganda machine. Al Gore - we need you to return your Nobel Peace Prize!

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.

I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

Climate change is a sanctity of human life issue.

For us to try and step in and say we have got to do all these global things to prevent the earth from getting any warmer in my opinion is absolute nonsense. It’s not going to happen

With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the "dangers" of windmills.

We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.

Our world is moving forward on climate change. If Australia goes backwards, we will be going alone.

Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.