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Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change. -- Richard N. Haass
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. -- James Hansen
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it? -- Eric Chivian
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. -- James Hansen
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. -- Dan Lipinski
Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past. -- Dmitry Medvedev
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about. -- Hillary Clinton
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. -- Noam Chomsky
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem. -- Federico Pena
I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it. -- Vinton Cerf
On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right. -- Robert Bryce
We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy. -- Winona LaDuke
It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential. -- Buzz Aldrin
I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet. -- Andrew Cuomo
China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference? -- Frank Luntz
All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change. -- Cate Blanchett
There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate. -- Marco Rubio
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. -- Jeff Goodell
Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. -- Hu Jintao
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. -- Jeff Goodell
Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature. -- Alan Lowenthal
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change. -- Valerie Jarrett
The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. -- Michael Franti
If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate. -- Bill McKibben
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this. -- Danny Glover
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney. -- Jeff Goodell
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity. -- Ban Ki-moon
Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders. -- Richard Preston
Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. -- Ron Fournier
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global. -- David Attenborough
Climate change is a global commons problem. -- Ottmar Edenhofer
Global warming, climate change, it's a total. -- Rush Limbaugh
Global warming, climate change, it's a total. -- Rush Limbaugh
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security. -- Barack Obama
No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures. -- Jose Mujica
Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all. -- Louise Burfitt-Dons
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. -- Angela Merkel
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[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction. -- Ralph Nader
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response -- Nicholas Stern
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world. -- John Gummer
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. -- William J. Clinton
Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world. -- Rupert Murdoch
Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system. -- Christiana Figueres
The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live. -- William J. Clinton
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions. -- John Howard
As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term -- Jay Leno
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now. -- Prince Charles
A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy. -- Jay Leno
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. -- Barack Obama
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role. -- Ali al-Naimi
Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard. -- Kyra Sedgwick

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