#climate change

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

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Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. ↗

— David Attenborough

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Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

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And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic. ↗

— Peter Garrett

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Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community. ↗

— Peter Garrett

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Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments. ↗

— Peter Garrett

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It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual. ↗

— Peter Garrett

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