John Kerry

We are still in this struggle. But we have done better than where we were.

The next year, $358 billion was invested in alternative renewable fuel. For the first time in history, more money went into alternative and sustainable fuel than fossil fuel.

We are not responding. No country in the world is doing enough to be able to help the world meet the goal of holding the Earth's temperature rise to two degrees Centigrade.

No, I actually played a moral judgment about what is appropriate in building a civil society. That is what I did.

Changing weather patterns threaten our national security through its impacts on military infrastructure, readiness, disaster response, and the economy.

There is ample peer-reviewed science, literally thousands of reports that have been done which have peer reviewed the judgments, the assumptions, the analysis.

There are any number of ways to pay for it.

I think what we ought to do is stop the politics and get down to really serving the people of West Virginia and the people of Kentucky.

Let communities decide for themselves whether that is the way to go.

What is going to win this battle is something called mission innovation.

We have to get away from that by coming together around a plan that will unite Americans.

The risks from climate change are real and that our efforts to address it are terribly inadequate.

But the truth is, Congresswoman, solar today is cheaper than coal. It is.

Climate change did not cause the tragedy of the war in Syria. A prolonged historic drought, however, killed off such a vast proportion of the livestock of Syria.

We already know what the outcome will be. It is a council of doubters and deniers...

It has been a life-changing experience, Mr. Chairman.

The problem we have is right now we are on track to hit four or 4.5 degrees. That is unlivable.

If the scientists are telling us that you have 12 years within which to try to prevent the 0.5 additional degrees of warming, to bring us to 1.5, we want to try to avoid it.

Net means that you would have carbon in certain places, but you'd have offsets against it, so that you are net at zero.

I know the difference, after 28 years in the Senate, between a serious effort to try to legislate something, and a political game that's going on.

I think it would be great to find a way to move on to a biodegradable straw, frankly.

I think there is an easy way to deal with it in a fair-minded way, and we are not being offered an opportunity to do that.

I think our debt is increasing, and moving in the wrong direction. And we're going to have an increasing deficit problem, I believe.

We have an incredible capacity to develop new fuels.

I don't think it's possible to do it in the next 10 years, needless to say.