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change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns for an extended period From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium

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Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system.

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  • Eight years have passed since I published the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, when I wanted to share with all of you, my brothers and sisters of our suffering planet, my heartfelt concerns about the care of our common home. Yet, with the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point. In addition to this possibility, it is indubitable that the impact of climate change will increasingly prejudice the lives and families of many persons. We will feel its effects in the areas of healthcare, sources of employment, access to resources, housing, forced migrations, etc.
    This is a global social issue and one intimately related to the dignity of human life. The Bishops of the United States have expressed very well this social meaning of our concern about climate change, which goes beyond a merely ecological approach, because “our care for one another and our care for the earth are intimately bound together. Climate change is one of the principal challenges facing society and the global community. The effects of climate change are borne by the most vulnerable people, whether at home or around the world”. In a few words, the Bishops assembled for the Synod for Amazonia said the same thing: “Attacks on nature have consequences for people’s lives”. And to express bluntly that this is no longer a secondary or ideological question, but a drama that harms us all, the African bishops stated that climate change makes manifest “a tragic and striking example of structural sin”.
  • Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity are growing in intensity and frequency (cf. Laudato Deum, 5), to say nothing of the medium and long-term effects of the human and ecological devastation being wrought by armed conflicts. [...] For believers it is also a duty born of faith, since the universe reflects the face of Jesus Christ, in whom all things were created and redeemed. In a world where the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters are the first to suffer the devastating effects of climate change, deforestation and pollution, care for creation becomes an expression of our faith and humanity.
  • Like the meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, we are having a huge impact. In the case of the climate, we are not the dinosaurs, we are the meteorite. Not only are we in danger, we are the danger.
    • António Guterres, from a speech at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 5 June 2024; quoted in ilpost.it, 5 June 2024
  • You only need to meet and listen to people in the sector to know that agriculture is one of the hardest hit by the climate emergency. Extreme weather events, which are becoming increasingly frequent and intense, cause damage and uncertainty for production continuity, such as this summer's drought, but also unusual frosts at unusual times, the Asian bug and other external pathogens: a fragility that our agriculture has never experienced before. But agriculture also knows that it is one of the contributors to climate-changing emissions.
  • Outside the Ministry of Transition, or rather, the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, there is a huge climate clock that tells us how few years we really have left. We have five years. So this legislative term will be crucial, and we cannot allow it to be remembered as the term when the names of ministries were changed, now including “Ecological Transition”, which is disappearing from the lexicon, because a name change is a cultural change, and we cannot afford that.
  • Climate change is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced, and it is a crisis that we will always be called upon to solve together and simultaneously tackle on our own. We cannot maintain the type of diet we are used to and at the same time maintain the planet we are used to. We must give up some of our eating habits or give up the planet. The choice is clear and dramatic. Where were you when you made your decision?
  • We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of our political leaders’ legacy will be the greatest failure of human history. And they will be remembered as the greatest villains of all time, because they have chosen not to listen and not to act.
    • Greta Thunberg, European Economic and Social Committee (February 2019)
  • It should be noted that climate change and pollution are two completely different things.
    Pollution can be combated immediately and without difficulty by prohibiting the release of toxins into the air. Global warming is something else entirely, as it depends on meteorological forces dominated by the power of the Sun.
    Human activity accounts for 5% of global warming: 95% depends on natural phenomena linked to the Sun.
    For example, an analysis of climate variations over the past millions of years, up to a few centuries ago, shows that cosmic rays have a major influence on the climate, but no mathematical model has yet introduced this variable. Yet it is because of cosmic rays that the Earth loses its two polar ice caps every 140 million years. This has happened four times in the last half billion years, and humans had not yet appeared on Earth.
    Attributing global warming solely to human activity has no scientific basis. There is no mathematics that allows such a prediction to be made.
    • È bene precisare che cambiamento climatico e inquinamento sono due cose completamente diverse.
      L’inquinamento si può combattere subito senza problemi, proibendo di immettere veleni nell'aria. Il riscaldamento globale è tutt'altra cosa, in quanto dipende dal motore meteorologico dominato dalla potenza del Sole.
      Le attività umane incidono al livello del 5%: il 95% dipende da fenomeni naturali legati al Sole.
      Ad esempio un’analisi sulle variazioni climatiche dei periodi trascorsi, da milioni di anni fino a pochi secoli fa, dimostra che i raggi cosmici influiscono molto sul destino del clima, ma nessun modello matematico ha finora introdotto questa variabile. Eppure è per via dei raggi cosmici che la Terra perde le due calotte polari ogni 140 milioni di anni. Nell’ultimo mezzo miliardo di anni è successo ben quattro volte e l’uomo non era ancora apparso sulla Terra.
      Attribuire alle sole attività umane il surriscaldamento globale è senza fondamento scientifico. Non c'è la Matematica che permette di fare una previsione del genere.
    • Antonino Zichichi, from the Official Facebook profile, 23 March 2023.

“Quella sul clima è pseudoscienza giornalistica”, dice il premio Nobel per la fisica Clauser

Gulio Meotti, Il Foglio, 11 May 2023.
  • It is acceptable to debate whether the mass of the proton changes over time, but is the evidence for global warming really incontrovertible? It is a new religion.
  • If you disagree with the majority opinion on global warming, you are an enemy of science. There is a secular religion around the world that we can call environmentalism.
  • The common narrative on climate change is a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the global economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misleading climate science has been transformed into a massive journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, it has been made the scapegoat for a myriad of unrelated evils.
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