"Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now"
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"It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate."
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"I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect."
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"Climate change is the greatest threat of our time."
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"I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male."
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"The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades."
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"This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak."
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"And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it."
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"Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy."
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"I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not."
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"The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets."
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"A republic may be called the climate of civilization."
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"I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence."
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"It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the climate change there's just nothing to say, he's perfectly straightforward."
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"Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind."
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"It is your human environment that makes climate"
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"The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: 'Too late...'"
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"What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry."
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"Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family."
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"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change."
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