Ian Somerhalder Quotes

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

Of course I would disagree that there's a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth's thermostat up and that we can turn the earth's thermostat down at will, we just haven't yet found the will. That's the argument on climate change.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.

If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.

I don’t know the science behind climate change.

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do not generate the heat that is currently provided by fossil fuels. I concur that climate change is beginning to [have an] effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action.

What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.

If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on Earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.

We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

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?