Jamais Cascio Quotes

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.

Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

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.

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place.

The thing about climate change is that you’ll never know for sure until it’s way too late.

Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.

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

When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

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.

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.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

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.

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

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.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.