Patrick Murphy Quotes

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

The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.

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!

Climate change is a sanctity of human life issue.

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.

Climate change is real.

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

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

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.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

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

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.

We now know beyond a doubt that global warming is a reality. And the question we must all answer is, what are we going to do about it?

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

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.

We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.

The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.

Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.

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.'