Global Climate Crisis

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 years ago

“More than 80 countries had signed on to the methane cut, which would immediately slow down climate change. About 30 percent of global warming since the Industrial Revolution is due to methane. Today global methane emissions grow faster than at any time in the past. Reducing methane is one of the most effective ways to reduce near-term warming and keep the Paris goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming alive. It is the lowest hanging fruit.”

Aljazeera

President of the European Commission

02 Nov 2021 5 4

Shuo Li

Inserted 2 years ago

“The G2 (China and the United States) need to realise that beyond their bilateral oasis and desert, the whole planet is at stake. If they don't make joint climate progress fast enough, it is soon all going to be desert.”

Aljazeera

Senior climate adviser with the environmental group Greenpeace

02 Sep 2021 3 5

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

António Guterres

Inserted 2 years ago

“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”

Aljazeera

Secretary-general of the United Nations

09 Aug 2021 2 3

Piers Forster

Inserted 2 years ago

“We can expect a significant jump in extreme weather over the next 20 or 30 years. Things are unfortunately likely to get worse than they are today.”

Nytimes

Climate scientist at the University of Leeds

09 Aug 2021 1 3

Niklas Boers

Inserted 2 years ago

“The signs of destabilisation being visible already is something that I wouldn't have expected and that I find scary. It's something you just can't [allow to] happen. It is not known what level of CO2 would trigger an AMOC [Atlantic meridional overturning circulation] collapse. So the only thing to do is keep emissions as low as possible. The likelihood of this extremely high-impact event happening increases with every gram of CO2 that we put into the atmosphere.”

Theguardian

Researcher from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany

05 Aug 2021 3 2

Simon Donner

Inserted 2 years ago

“The fire creates the storm, and then the storm creates lightning, which can cause more fires. That runaway feedback is the dangerous part.”

Cbc

Interdisciplinary climate scientist and geography professor at the University of British Columbia

27 Jul 2021 2 2

Kristie Ebi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We saw the forecasts and it was hard to believe as we don't really have heatwaves like that. In Seattle it's usually so overcast during June we call it Juneuary. You see the heatwaves hit other places and you know it's bad but there's not the sense of urgency until it hits you.”

Theguardian

Professor at the University of Washington who studies global warming and its effects on public health

22 Jul 2021 1 3

Angela Merkel

Inserted 2 years ago

“I am equipped with sufficient sense for science to see that objective circumstances demand that we can't continue at the current pace but have to up the tempo.”

Theguardian

Chancellor of Germany

22 Jul 2021 0 3

Aisen Nikolaev

Inserted 2 years ago

“Obviously, there is only one reason: Global climate change. We can see how it's getting hotter in Yakutia every year. We are living through the hottest, driest summer in the history of meteorological measurements since the end of the 19th century. Undoubtedly, these [wildfires] are a very serious challenge facing our republic, and our country in general. Yakutia makes up one-third of Russia's forests; the country should be very mindful and careful with its green lungs.”

Themoscowtimes

Head of the Sakha Republic in Russia

20 Jul 2021 1 4

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

Christopher Harley

Inserted 2 years ago

“It was so hot when I was out with a student that we collected data for a little bit and then retreated to the shade and ate frozen grapes. But of course, the mussels, sea stars and clams don't have that option. But when the temperatures get above that, those are just unsurvivable conditions. A square meter of mussel bed could be home to several dozen or even one hundred species. You can fit thousands on to an area the size of a stove top. And there are hundreds of kilometres of rocky beach that are hospitable to mussels. Each time you scale up, the numbers just keep getting bigger and bigger. And that's just mussels. A lot of sea life would have died.”

Theguardian

Marine biologist at the University of British Columbia

08 Jul 2021 2 4

Simon Donner

Inserted 2 years ago

“As the climate warms, it basically means it's shifting the distribution of the weather. So we're going to have more events like this and fewer cool summers.”

Cbc

Interdisciplinary climate scientist and geography professor at the University of British Columbia

25 Jun 2021 0 4

Markus Rex

Inserted 2 years ago

“The disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic is one of the first landmines in this minefield, one of the tipping points that we set off first when we push warming too far. And one can essentially ask if we haven't already stepped on this mine and already set off the beginning of the explosion. Only evaluation in the coming years will allow us to determine if we can still save the year-round Arctic sea ice through forceful climate protection or whether we have already passed this important tipping point in the climate system.”

Aljazeera

Scientist who led the MOSAiC expedition to the Arctic

15 Jun 2021 4 4

Joe Biden

Inserted 3 years ago

“Particularly those of us that represent the world's largest economies, we have to step up. Let's run that race, win a more sustainable future than we have now, overcome the existential crisis of our time. This is a moral imperative, an economic imperative, a moment of peril, but also a moment of extraordinary possibilities. Time is short but I believe we can do this and I believe we will do this. This moment demands urgency – good ideas and good intentions aren't good enough. We need to ensure the financing is there, public and private, to meet the moment on climate change and help us seize the opportunity for good jobs, strong economies and a more secure world.”

Theguardian

President of the United States

22 Apr 2021 0 4

John Podesta

Inserted 3 years ago

“I think in Obama's mind, it was always about tackling the climate challenge, not making the climate challenge the central element of your economic policy. Biden's team is different. It is really the core of their economic strategy to make transformation of the energy systems the driver of innovation, growth, and job creation, justice and equity.”

Theguardian

American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and Counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015

16 Apr 2021 2 4

Ulf Büntgen

Inserted 3 years ago

“We're all aware of the cluster of exceptionally hot and dry summers we've had over the past few years. Our results show what we have experienced is extraordinary. The series is unprecedented for the last 2,000 years.”

Theguardian

Professor at Cambridge University

15 Mar 2021 0 4

Polly Billington

Inserted 3 years ago

“Green investment will create thousands of jobs, tackle climate change and secure the recovery. Our research with Siemens found that investing £5bn in renewable energy could unlock £100bn of private capital. We look forward to working with the government to make this happen.”

Theguardian

Director of UK100

15 Jul 2020 2 5

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“The G2 (China and the United States) need to realise that beyond their bilateral oasis and desert, the whole planet is at stake. If they don't make joint climate progress fast enough, it is soon all going to be desert.”

“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”

“We can expect a significant jump in extreme weather over the next 20 or 30 years. Things are unfortunately likely to get worse than they are today.”

“The fire creates the storm, and then the storm creates lightning, which can cause more fires. That runaway feedback is the dangerous part.”

“We saw the forecasts and it was hard to believe as we don't really have heatwaves like that. In Seattle it's usually so overcast during June we call it Juneuary. You see the heatwaves hit other places and you know it's bad but there's not the sense of urgency until it hits you.”

“I am equipped with sufficient sense for science to see that objective circumstances demand that we can't continue at the current pace but have to up the tempo.”

“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.”

“As the climate warms, it basically means it's shifting the distribution of the weather. So we're going to have more events like this and fewer cool summers.”

“We're all aware of the cluster of exceptionally hot and dry summers we've had over the past few years. Our results show what we have experienced is extraordinary. The series is unprecedented for the last 2,000 years.”

“Green investment will create thousands of jobs, tackle climate change and secure the recovery. Our research with Siemens found that investing £5bn in renewable energy could unlock £100bn of private capital. We look forward to working with the government to make this happen.”

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