Margaret Beckett Quotes

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Climate change is a reality.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out.

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.