Climate crisis

Celeste Saulo

Inserted 1 month ago

“The World Meteorological Organization community is sounding the Red Alert to the world. What we witnessed in 2023, especially with the unprecedented ocean warmth, glacier retreat and Antarctic sea ice loss, is cause for particular concern. Ocean heat is particularly concerning because it is almost irreversible. The trend is really very worrying and that is because of the characteristics of water that keep heat content for longer than the atmosphere.”

Reuters

Secretary General of World Meteorological Organization

19 Mar 2024 5 4

Daniel Swain

Inserted 8 months ago

“Twenty years from now, a summer like this is going to feel like a mild summer. In terms of incredibly frenetic pace of global extremes we are seeing this summer, in terms of temperatures and precipitation, that's only going to get worse as the climate continues to warm.”

Nytimes

Climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles

21 Aug 2023 0 2

John Naughton

Inserted 2 years ago

“Ten years ago, diesel cars accounted for 75% of new sales there. Today they make up just 2.3%. Two-thirds of all new cars sold there [Norway] in 2021 were EVs and the predictions are that proportion will reach 80% this year. Ye olde internal combustion engine seems destined for extinction in that particular part of the frozen north.”

Theguardian

Professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University

22 Jan 2022 3 4

Marie Noelle Bernard

Inserted 2 years ago

“When we talk about the trees being cut down, it's not just the trees. All of these trees are home to protected species. The environmental impact is enormous. Ecocide is not yet recognised in French law, unfortunately. But this will be an ecocide.”

France24

Member of environment collective 'Touche pas à mon Bois de Vincennes'

16 Jan 2022 3 3

Mark Hertsgaard

Inserted 2 years ago

“The democracy emergency is closely linked to the climate crisis. Each is grounded in a big lie - that climate science is a hoax, that Trump won in 2020 - pushed by the same rightwing politicians and propaganda “news” outlets and embraced with cult-like devotion by Trump's followers. Left untreated, each threatens disaster. If Trump's forces do change enough electoral rules and personnel to guarantee victory in 2022 and beyond, there is zero chance the US government will take the strong climate action needed to avert global catastrophe.”

Theguardian

Journalist and executive director of Covering Climate Now

10 Jan 2022 4 3

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 years ago

“The bill will represent the most significant investment to address the climate crisis ever and will truly transform this nation. We are going to get off the sidelines of manufacturing solar panels and wind farms. The package will help double the number of electric cars on US roads within three years and provide 500,000 new charging stations for the vehicles. We are once again going to be the innovators. It's a big deal. The weather is not going to get better, it's going to get a heck of a lot worse. It's a blinking code red for America and the world.”

Theguardian

President of the United States

28 Oct 2021 7 4

Chris Garrard

Inserted 2 years ago

“For years oil companies have been given prominent platforms at the UN climate negotiations, promoting themselves as climate leaders while they continued to pour millions into new fossil fuels, so this is a big step forward.”

Theguardian

Co-director of campaign group Culture Unstained

21 Oct 2021 4 5

Artessa Saldivar-Sali

Inserted 2 years ago

“With a 1-metre sea level rise, we project that about 40% of buildings in the capital, Majuro, would be permanently inundated, permanently flooded. So that is a quite big impact.”

Theguardian

World Bank disaster risk management specialist who led the work on the report 'Mapping the Marshall Islands'

16 Oct 2021 3 5

Kaveh Guilanpour

Inserted 2 years ago

“But achieving the $100 billion target alone would not be enough to contain rising global temperatures and cope with the effects of climate change. Instead, the world's financial systems need to reflect the costs of climate inaction. That means companies, banks, investors, and other players will need to reduce investments in high emission activities while boosting funding for climate-friendly goods, services, and infrastructure. The $100 billion is essential as a trust-building issue, and the president's announcement was hugely helpful in that regard. At the same time, it will never be enough to affect the transformation that the Paris Agreement requires-which needs trillions in investment, not billions.”

Qz

Vice president for international strategies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

21 Sep 2021 6 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“Everyone nods and we all agree that 'something must be done.' Yet I confess I'm increasingly frustrated that the something to which many of you have committed is nowhere near enough.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

20 Sep 2021 4 3

Katie Lotterhos

Inserted 2 years ago

“Humans are slow learners and climate is changing faster than our systems for regulation in management can keep up. And so as long as we're in this pile of bureaucracy, where we can't adapt our social systems and our management systems to the speed at which climate is changing, it's going to exacerbate climate change even more so.”

Cbc

Associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant, Maine

26 Aug 2021 1 3

Rick Spinrad

Inserted 2 years ago

“The extreme events we are seeing worldwide - from record-shattering heat waves to extreme rainfall to raging wildfires - are all long-predicted and well-understood impacts of a warmer world. They will continue to get more severe until the world cuts its emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases down to net-zero.”

Aljazeera

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator

14 Aug 2021 6 6

Carlo Buontempo

Inserted 2 years ago

“With climate change we do expect all hydro-meteorological extremes to become more extreme. What we have seen in Germany is broadly consistent with this trend.”

Theguardian

Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

16 Jul 2021 1 5

Lina Burnelius

Inserted 2 years ago

“Fit for 55 is harmful to forests and insufficient to tackle climate change. We are in desperate need of honest policies that include all our emissions in the statistics. [The European Commission had chosen] to sacrifice forests rather than admit that current EU bioenergy policy is making the climate crisis worse. Enough with the burning. We cannot just switch from burning one climate disastrous fuel to another.”

Theguardian

Project leader at Protect the Forest Sweden

16 Jul 2021 3 5

Ertug Ercin

Inserted 2 years ago

“Climate change impacts are not just happening within your borders. The study gives evidence of how we are interconnected globally through trade and how climate-driven disasters outside our borders can touch our lives directly and can be really relevant to our society and economy. We cannot just ignore it any more.”

Theguardian

Researcher at R2Water Research and Consultancy and Vrije University in the Netherlands

15 Jun 2021 0 3

Carmen Morales-Caselles

Inserted 2 years ago

“We were not surprised about plastic being 80% of the litter, but the high proportion of takeaway items did surprise us, which will not just be McDonald's litter, but water bottles, beverage bottles like Coca-Cola, and cans. This information will make it easier for policymakers to actually take action to try to turn off the tap of marine litter flowing into the ocean, rather than just clean it up.”

Theguardian

Researcher at the University of Cádiz, Spain

10 Jun 2021 0 3

Natalie Mahowald

Inserted 2 years ago

“Reaching 50% higher carbon dioxide than pre-industrial is really setting a new benchmark and not in a good way. If we want to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, we need to work much harder to cut carbon dioxide emissions and right away.”

Theguardian

Cornell University climate scientist

08 Jun 2021 2 3

Clare Goodess

Inserted 2 years ago

“They tell us that people are already dying on every continent due to increases in heat stress caused by human-induced climate change. This highlights the imperative for global action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It is more important than ever that meaningful agreements emerge from [UN climate conference] Cop26 in November.”

Theguardian

Senior research fellow from the school of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia

31 May 2021 2 3

Amina Mohammed

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are running out of time to bend the emissions curve and cut emissions by 45% globally by 2030 and that's from 2010 levels. This means all main emitters must deliver enhanced NDCs [nationally determined contribution] this year with concrete and credible targets that we can follow through to 2030. Important investments in the targets we set for 2030 will determine the outcome of credibility of the 2050 targets. And it means no new coal starting now, phasing out coal in OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] countries by 2030, and in the rest of the world by 2040.”

Theguardian

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

20 May 2021 3 3

Neville Ash

Inserted 2 years ago

“Protected areas are only part of the solution for addressing the biodiversity crisis and the opportunities ahead of us. They need to sit alongside wider sustainability measures, sustainable consumption and production patterns, aligning financial flows to the benefit of nature and reducing perverse subsidies.”

Theguardian

Director of Unep’s Conservation Monitoring Centre

19 May 2021 2 3

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“Twenty years from now, a summer like this is going to feel like a mild summer. In terms of incredibly frenetic pace of global extremes we are seeing this summer, in terms of temperatures and precipitation, that's only going to get worse as the climate continues to warm.”

“When we talk about the trees being cut down, it's not just the trees. All of these trees are home to protected species. The environmental impact is enormous. Ecocide is not yet recognised in French law, unfortunately. But this will be an ecocide.”

“For years oil companies have been given prominent platforms at the UN climate negotiations, promoting themselves as climate leaders while they continued to pour millions into new fossil fuels, so this is a big step forward.”

“With a 1-metre sea level rise, we project that about 40% of buildings in the capital, Majuro, would be permanently inundated, permanently flooded. So that is a quite big impact.”

“Everyone nods and we all agree that 'something must be done.' Yet I confess I'm increasingly frustrated that the something to which many of you have committed is nowhere near enough.”

“With climate change we do expect all hydro-meteorological extremes to become more extreme. What we have seen in Germany is broadly consistent with this trend.”

“Reaching 50% higher carbon dioxide than pre-industrial is really setting a new benchmark and not in a good way. If we want to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, we need to work much harder to cut carbon dioxide emissions and right away.”

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