Climate Change Quotes - Page 22

• We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, Waiting, Energy

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Zero, Ambition, Differences

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, Atmosphere, Energy

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, Environmental, Energy

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.

  Richard Lindzen

  Running, Long, Important

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• In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth.

  Michael Crichton

  Issues, Blue, Views

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• The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

  Richard Lindzen

  Issues, Political, Littles

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• Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system, have come to be identified with man's activities - engendering fear as well as an agenda for societal reform and control... This greatly facilitates any conscious effort to politicize science via influence in such bodies where a handful of individuals (often not even scientists) speak on behalf of organizations that include thousands of scientists, and even enforce specific scientific positions and agendas.

  Richard Lindzen

  Men, Organization, Focus

  "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

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• We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

  Nigel Farage

  Mistake, Stupid, May

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• The climate change argument is absolute crap

  Tony Abbott

  Climate, Argument, Crap

  "The 7.30 Report" with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. February 02, 2010.

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• I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

  Nigel Lawson

  Thinking, Weather, Ordinary

  "They cheat, I tell you". Interview with Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

  Donald Trump

  Winter, Snow, Records

  "Trump cool to global warning". pagesix.com. February 14, 2010.

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• We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, World, Want

  Barack Obama's re-election speech in Chicago, www.bbc.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

  Desmond Tutu

  Years, Knowing, People

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• I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

  James Hansen

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Grandfather

  "'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead'" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Predictions, Happenings

  "Game Over for the Climate". www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2012.

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• The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common man just wants to live in peace and justice in a clean environment. When we look around the world and we see that is not the case, we know the will of the majority is not being listened to, that's the first sign that our system is broken.

  Woody Harrelson

  Men, Broken, Justice

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• The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Rivers, Tree, Environment

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• We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground, and the fossil fuels we do use must be utilized sparingly and responsibly.

  Christiana Figueres

  Mean, Fossils, Three

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• [Global-warming debate] some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Climate, Campaigns, Kind

  "Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?" by Simon Shuster, content.time.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Past, Weather, Climate

  "Has 'denying' won?". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. June 24, 2017.

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• When we know better, we do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Knows

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• All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

  Chief Seattle

  Children, Native American, Web Of Life

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

  Country, Earth, Firsts

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• No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

  David Goodstein

  Fuel, Matter, Fossils

  David Goodstein, Michael Intriligator (2012). “Climate Change and the Energy Problem: Physical Science and Economics Perspective”, p.23, World Scientific Publishing Co Inc

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