Gregg Easterbrook Quotes

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

I think climate change is probably the most extreme, and it's been going on for years because it's very difficult to talk about a planetary issue like climate change and to get people who live within four-year electoral cycles to actually pay attention to something that you predict is happening way in the future.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.

We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.

I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I think that, depending on who that president is, it can have a significant influence on the trajectory.

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.