How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed,
the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines,
is in imminent peril.
The United States is still borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn in ways that destroy the planet.
Every bit of that's got to change.
We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet's atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come.
How long are we willing to gamble?
The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.
By 2050, Europe could achieve an economywide
reduction of GHG emissions of at least 80%
compared to 1990 levels... This level of reduction is only
possible with a nearly zero-carbon power supply.
In the shorter
term, the cost of electricity in the decarbonized
pathways is higher than the baseline, more so in the
pathways with higher shares of renewable supply.
Over the medium and longer term these differences
disappear.
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded.
Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children.
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in
the world is conducting research on the issue.
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.
Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.
There is no high-carbon future.
There is no greater threat to human health than climate change. For those of us working as doctors, its imminent threat dwarfs any survival gains due to our daily health care activity.
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace
because it’s easier than going out to the woodpile.
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.
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world ... the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.
What will save us is not technology or science. What will save us is the ethical transformation of our society.
The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.
When people start feeling the real effects of global warming, they will be ready to do something.
