Skip to content

I think it is possible to get the carbon dioxide emissions down and to get the temperature increase slowed down. It just requires everybody to work together to do it.

— Joanna Haigh

Another quote →

More quotes by Joanna Haigh

The climate system takes decades to respond to changes in carbon emissions so decisions made now will affect future generations - for better or worse.

I think it’s going to be very, very, very difficult to get to 1.5C.

Solar geoengineering, I’m afraid I think it’s a fool’s paradise, and I’ve been saying the same thing for many years.

We were aware of it back in the late 1970s. There was a lot of talk about the greenhouse effect.

Without concerted and swift international action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, the 1.5°C threshold is likely to be passed by 2040 and the report (Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C) sets out very starkly the costs of inaction.

All Joanna Haigh quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Joanna Haigh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.