climate change

“Not everyone has to care about climate change for us to fix the problem. And that is a wonderful thing because not everyone will care about climate change.”

“It's so big and so distant and so kind of all-encompassing and abstract that it's very difficult to approach it via a specific place or person or story or relationship, and those specifics are what give art its power and its meaning.”

“We're evolved creatures who are evolved to care about things within a certain space around us and on a certain timescale, right? We're just mammals. That means close proximity and relatively short timescales. And climate is huge and far away and slow.”

“Over the course of my career, most attempts to grapple with climate change via art, you know, music, or movies, or TV shows, or poetry, have just been bad.”

“If you tell people, I made a movie about climate change, they're not going to herd to see it. They're just not.”

“When you look at the national defense strategy that was released under President Trump, there is no mention directly of climate change in that national defense strategy.”

“You know, you can predict with fairly high confidence at certain temperature levels what the physical risks will be on the planet, right, from climate change, sea level rise, extreme weather events temperatures, heat waves, but what you can't predict as much i…”

“I think also in places like the Sahel in West Africa, where we've seen climate change drive conflict patterns there, drive the ability of terrorist and extremist groups to recruit more easily as governments are not able to help manage the shocks.”

“So it certainly has been part of the conversation within the Department of Defense, irrespective of the broader political environment.”

“It's a national security issue because when people have to leave devastated areas and move elsewhere, the refugee flows, the all the humanitarian effort that goes into it, the willingness of some people to take advantage of those people terrorists in particula…”

“You have Secretary Austin saying that his three main issues are China, COVID, and climate.”

“There are lots of groups acting in the name of climate change and in the name of adaptation, but not actually understanding what either is.”

“With this rule, and with the adoption of a final rule, investors will finally have a way to evaluate companies' financial resilience in the face of climate change to determine whether investment in a certain company is risky or not.”

“And the criminalization of self-managed abortion and other adverse birth outcomes are going to hit places already overburdened by climate change and pollution hardest and first.”

“In 2017, extreme weather events fueled by climate change wiped out 60% of GDP. More than half of economic growth was just eliminated due to extreme weather events.”

“For example, a projection from one of the world's largest insurers showed that climate change could slash 23 trillion from the global economy by twenty-fifty.”

“Is that it has no way of calculating the cost of climate change to the economy.”

“And this dual jet stream structure does seem to have some sort of potential influence from climate change, specifically the change in the difference between the temperature at the equator and the temperature in the Arctic, because the temperature in the Arctic…”

“The UK Met Office says that the chances of seeing 40 degrees Celsius days in the UK are tenfold more likely with climate change.”

“I think one of the biggest surprises when I started to research misinformation was that people aren't denying the science of climate change. A lot of the misinformation was more related to the solution to climate change.”

“From my opinion, if we don't, and the language I use about this, deploy digital infrastructure across all of these different sectors of the economy to help accelerate action against climate change, we will fail. We will not address climate change in a time fra…”

“And I actually attribute a lot of that to improvements in attribution science, right? When we were able to really start saying this specific event is due to climate change, I think that really kind of galvanized the public conversation.”

“For a very long time in our country, TV meteorologists were Outright denialists when it came to climate change. 50 plus, I, it was close to 60% just a few years ago.”

“Conditioned or not conditioned on AI, P-Doom is high for the grid, right? We are dealing with climate change and extreme events. We are dealing with a lack of, you know, planning for these things as we saw in Texas, for example. So I don't know that AI increas…”

“Those of us who have lived through a bubble might see certain parallels this time, and this is certainly not your grandmother's venture capital bubble. It's a very different situation. The societal impetus for acknowledging climate change, the bank and financi…”

“So we can expect, for example, more energy droughts in terms of high demand in summer than in winter, which is something that's before, you know, happened.”

“By and large, the Republican Party is You know, full of members of Congress who very much believe climate change is happening and is happening. For reasons caused by humans, and now our set of discussions are around how do we solve the issue.”