Louise Slaughter Quotes

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.

Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.

Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.

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

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

The only way we can hope to combat climate change, protect our precious land and water, and prevent future extreme weather disasters is to cut the carbon pollution that’s warming our planet, and replace dirty energy sources with clean, renewable sources.

We have hysteria over climate change. Powers bigger than us have already figured out how to save the earth.

... We've laid the groundwork to protect our planet. But the resulting opportunities can be seized only if the next president follows the science, recognizes the dangers of doing nothing, and musters the political will to address the threat.

No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished.

Why do today's non-stop shocks -- why don't they spur us into action? Why don't they produce leaps? Especially when it comes to climate change.

We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

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

For millions of Americans, climate change is no longer just a chart or a graph. It's the smoke on our tongues from massive wildfires. It's the floodwater invading our homes and record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves.

If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

The American people know that climate change is the kind of problem only America can solve.

To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

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

The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.