“We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsLooksRiskImportanceClimateClimate ChangeDenyCoreEnormousIceDataCarbonTemperatureCarbon Dioxide Author:Nicholas Stern
“The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty.” YearsLeftBehindsWorryRiskTenClimate ChangeProductionsDirtyGlobal WarmingLeft Behind Author:Nicholas Stern
“A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.” KnowsWorldYearsHumansWould BeHuman BeingsMillionsClimate ChangeTemperature Author:Nicholas Stern
“Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.” PeopleYearsLevelsResultsCitiesMillionsRiskSeaNew YorkSeriousPressureSouthProtectionEastLondonIslandsRisingVietnamAsiaPacificMiamiCaribbeanHong KongCalcuttaTokyoBangladeshGlaciersCoastalMumbaiShanghaiEast AsiaBuenos Aires Author:Nicholas Stern
