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.
Nicholas SternClimate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.
Nicholas SternThere is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Nicholas SternThe greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?
Nicholas Stern