Scott Pruitt Quotes

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

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.

Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.

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.

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

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You'll be pretty lonely, because you'll be debating our military, most of America's business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it's a problem and intend to solve it.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.

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

Ultimately, here is the choice we face: we can either make the solution to the climate crisis the central organizing principle of civilization–or the hostile conditions we are creating will grow rapidly worse, thickening the smothering blanket of global warming pollution surrounding our planet and destroy the viability of civilization as we know it.

Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.'

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

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

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.

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

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand.

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

The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.

The only thing we're interested in as Greens is making sure that we are protecting Canada from an imminent threat and that imminent threat is the climate crisis.

I believe that the United States has a moral and economic imperative to mitigate the impacts of climate change.