Steven Chu Quotes

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

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

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

The thing about climate change is that you’ll never know for sure until it’s way too late.

For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.

If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.

The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.

Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.

We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

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

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than 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.

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

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.

Risk is not a dirty word.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.