Climate Discussion Quotes

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn't know how to make climate change resonate with voters - if they mentioned it at all.

Our climate is changing. That's a fact, and we need to have a real debate about how we should respond to it.

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

I'm not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate.

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

Droughts come and go, but this one is so extreme that it will doubtless affect the discussion of climate change.

Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.

There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears. We're probably less adaptable than them, anyway. The farther you are from the Beltway, the more you can have a conversation about climate no matter how people vote. I never try to politicize the issue.

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.