Ron DeSantis Quotes

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

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.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

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

Climate change is a real thing that is happening in the Maldives. It is not something in the future… We are only 1.5 meters above sea level. Fossil fuel technology is obsolete; it has been around for too long.

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

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

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.

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

Well, I think it's clear that the climate is changing. I think reasonable people can differ about how much and how rapidly. But I think it's clear that it's changing and it's clear that humans are a contributing factor.

If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.

Cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost.

Listen, I think we all believe that we need to take aggressive steps to mitigate the effects of climate change.

We're looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

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.

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.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.

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

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

Climate change is real.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?