Ramez Naam Quotes

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.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

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

Human induced climate change is real, and the evidence is right in front of us. It threatens our shores. It promises to bring intense heat waves and powerful storms. It has the power to disrupt our economy, endanger our food supply, and imperil global stability. We must take action to stop it.

Climate change is real.

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.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

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.

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.

Climate change is here. We have to learn how to deal with it.

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

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

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.

The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.

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

From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape the fact that climate change is not happening in some far-off, distant future.

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.

Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security - even bigger than Brexit.

When you think about climate change, that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.