Global Warming famous quotes
03-28-2025
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The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
-- Al Gore -
We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
-- Al Gore -
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
-- Al Gore -
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.
-- Al Seckel -
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
-- Andrew Simms -
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
-- Andrey Illarionov -
The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation
-- Andrey Illarionov -
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
-- Bill McKibben -
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
-- Bill McKibben -
Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
-- Bill McKibben -
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.
-- Bill McKibben -
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
-- Brian Mulroney -
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.
-- Christopher Landsea -
I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.
-- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley -
The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
-- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley -
There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.
-- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley -
[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
-- Clare Short -
It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.
-- Craig D. Idso -
They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.
-- David Bellamy -
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.
-- David Hawkins -
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
-- David Suzuki -
Forget about whether global warming exists. My focus is on jobs.
-- Debbie Stabenow -
Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."
-- Dmitry Medvedev -
I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!
-- Dusty Springfield -
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
-- Edward Teller -
Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming
-- Emma Thompson -
Global warming is not a threat. It's not a real threat. It's not a credible threat. It's not an imminent threat. ISIS is.
-- Eric Bolling -
we are running out of time for dealing with this
-- Eric Illsley -
For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.
-- Fred Krupp -
We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
-- Freeman Dyson -
When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
-- Freeman Dyson -
There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
-- Freeman Dyson -
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
-- Freeman Dyson -
We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
-- Freeman Dyson -
We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy
-- Gary L. Francione -
Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling
-- Gordon Korman -
The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
-- Harold Lewis -
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.
-- Heather Mills -
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
-- Henrik Svensmark -
I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.
-- Ivar Giaever -
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.
-- Jamais Cascio -
As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.
-- James Hansen -
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
-- James Hansen -
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
-- James Inhofe -
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
-- James Lovelock -
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.
-- James Lovelock -
According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.
-- Jay Leno -
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
-- Jeff Goodell -
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
-- Jeff Merkley -
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
-- Jerry Falwell -
Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly....As a scientist I remain skeptical.
-- Joanne Simpson -
Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.
-- Joe Lieberman -
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
-- Joe Lieberman -
How much damage will have been done before we act?
-- John McCain -
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
-- John Ray -
Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
-- Julian Barnes -
It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.
-- Kerry Emanuel -
Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.
-- Kevin E. Trenberth -
I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change....Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.
-- Kevin Warwick -
This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
-- Larry Brilliant -
Global warming threatens the survival of our species.
-- Lucien Bouchard -
Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!
-- Marcel Leroux -
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet.
-- Mark Lynas -
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.
-- Martin Rees -
I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.
-- Matt Salmon -
Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.
-- Michael Hanlon -
The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.
-- Michael Moore -
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
-- Michael Shermer -
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
-- Michael Shermer -
The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
-- Michele Bachmann -
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
-- Michio Kaku -
With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
-- Moon Bloodgood -
Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.
-- Morgan Freeman -
I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.
-- Nick Cohen -
Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.
-- Pal Brekke -
Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends,
-- Pat Sajak -
There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.
-- Pat Toomey -
It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.
-- Peter Sissons -
To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.
-- Richard Courtney -
We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -
It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming.
-- Stanley B. Goldenberg -
Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.
-- Stefan Rahmstorf -
Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.
-- Steven Guilbeault -
Time is running out to deal with climate change.
-- Steven Guilbeault -
Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
-- Ted Cruz -
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
-- Tim Wirth
