Climate Change Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Climate, Answers, Global Warming

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• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Convincing Evidence, Environmental

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Climate, Temperature, Global Warming

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• NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.

  Walter Cunningham

  Agency, Hysteria, Becoming

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• This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

  Frederick Seitz

  Country, Opportunity, Technology

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• Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC....The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium...which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'

  Richard Keen

  Climate, Earth, Temperature

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• Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

  John Gummer

  Alarms, Climate, Needs

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• Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it's a reality.

  Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg

  Reality, Environmental, Climate

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• We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

  Mark Udall

  Climate, Action, Global Warming

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• I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Needs, Scientist

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Evolution, Conscious, Planets

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Leader, World, Honored

  Address at the United Nations Climate Summit, delivered 23 September 2014, New York, NY

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• We only get one planet.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Planets

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Together, Ifs

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact'". www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Challenges, Answers, Planets

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Gathering, Tasks, Body

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Ecosystems, Economy, Collapse

  Address at the United Nations Climate Summit, delivered 23 September 2014, New York, NY

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• I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Issues, Long Ago, People

  "Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Attributing global climate change to human CO₂ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.

  Timothy Ball

  Nuts, Water, Trying

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• It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

  Peter Sissons

  Climate, Global Warming, Policy

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• Time is running out to deal with climate change.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Running, Climate, Global Warming

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• Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

  Mike Hulme

  Self, Normal, Climate

  Mike Hulme (2013). “Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society: An Anthology of Mike Hulme's Essays, Interviews and Speeches”, p.88, Routledge

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• Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

  James Lovelock

  Democracy, Way, Climate

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• I am a global lukewarmist.

  Peter Lilley

  "CLIMATE CHANGE - Preparation for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference". Parliamentary Speech, www.peterlilley.co.uk. November 5, 2009.

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• The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.

  Peter Lilley

  Men, Expectations, Driving

  "Peter Lilley: 'I am a global lukewarmist' and other quotes" by Lauren Niland, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.

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