“Global warming's a bunch of crap Al Gore made up to sell books to Californians.”— Jim Patterson, Don Reo, Beau, Sam Elliott, imdb.com
“Climate change is real. It's making severe weather worse. And we're causing it. The good news? We can prevent the further exacerbation of these climate change impacts by transitioning to sustainable energy, agriculture, and forestry.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“Saying there's no global climate change because it's cold at your house today is kinda like saying there's no hunger in the world because you just had a slice of pizza.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“Stating scientific facts about the atmosphere of our planet is not and must not be 'politics.' Reality should not be a political stance. If someone's political stance requires preventing scientists from informing you about your own planet, that's not politics, it's oppression.”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“Global temperatures are rising, giving way to extreme weather events. The Arctic shelf is melting, and fire, floods, and famine will ensue Exacerbating poverty, political instability, terrorism. Everything we know will collapse, but those of us who ascend The Ladder will be safe.”— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“George Clooney, who is a moron, came here to Cannes and gave a press conference saying, ‘Under no circumstances will Trump ever be president. Hillary Clinton will be the next president.’ Well, we can’t wait to make George Clooney eat his words. He has a false patina of intellectualism and this is wh…”— Steve Bannon, news.com.au
“The future climate scientists have been warning us about for decades is now happening. It’s NOT too late to act, but situation is urgent.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“Replanting tropical forests restores habitat and growing forests absorb CO2 emissions.”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“We are each part of the answer, in small and big ways. This is the biggest challenge of our time, maybe of all time. We need everyone.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“No one noticed When the sparrows left It was just another smoggy winter morning People drove their cars dropped their children off At air conditioned schools Where they learned Pollution is a bad thing It was just another smoggy winter morning And stuck on flyovers No one noticed That they spent mor…”— Unknown, twitter.com
“I’m not sure how much more clearly we can say this: Everything we’re doing, if it doesn’t involve eliminating fossil fuel use immediately, is actively making the climate problem worse. There is no time left for incremental action. It is literally do or die time.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“Our task is to reduce emissions as quickly and justly as possible, no matter the political context. We don’t have time to wait for 'a better time.'”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“The ice doesn't care who's in the White House. It doesn't care which party controls your congress. It doesn't care which party controls your parliament. It just melts.”— David Titley, twitter.com
“Building and then running new wind and solar energy is now cheaper than continuing to run existing coal and nuclear power plants, study says. Beyond grid parity price, to disruption price. If it holds true, fantastic for humanity.”— Alex Steffen, twitter.com
“A fast transition away from fossil fuels in the next few decades could be enough to put off rapid sea-level rise for centuries. That’s a decision worth countless trillions of dollars and millions of lives. 'The range of outcomes,' Bassis says, 'is really going to depend on choices that people make.'”— Eric Holthaus, grist.org
“A wholesale collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites would set off a catastrophe. Giant icebergs would stream away from Antarctica like a parade of frozen soldiers. All over the world, high tides would creep higher, slowly burying every shoreline on the planet, flooding coastal cities and creating hundr…”— Eric Holthaus, grist.org
“Minute-by-minute, huge skyscraper-sized shards of ice cliffs would crumble into the sea, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and as deep underwater as the height of the Empire State Building. The result: a global catastrophe the likes of which we’ve never seen.”— Eric Holthaus, grist.org
“We don't ever really "throw out" plastic as much as move it somewhere else to be someone (& something) else's problem.”— Daniel Dae Kim, twitter.com
“The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.”— Mike Huckabee, nytimes.com