Climate Change Quotes - Page 36

• Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

  Caroline Lucas

  War, Media, Holocaust

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• The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

  Chris Mooney

  Writing, Perspective, Holocaust

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• Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

  Clive Hamilton

  Holocaust, Climate, Dangerous

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• Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

  Chris Huhne

  Ambition, Giving, Climate

  "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

  George Monbiot

  Stupid, Holocaust, Climate

  "The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it". www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2006.

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• Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Air, Pbs, Giving

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• The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

  Johann Hari

  Holocaust, Intellectual, Climate

  "The Shame of the Climate-change Deniers". www.independent.co.uk. April 24, 2005.

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• David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

  Margo Kingston

  Holocaust, Humanity, Climate

  "The Seeds of the Global Warming Police State" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 29, 2007.

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• The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

  Nick Cohen

  Men, Finals, Global Warming

  "The climate change deniers have won" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2014.

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• A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

  Phil Plait

  Holocaust, Complaining, Denial

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• What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? ...If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Thinking, Views, Differences

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• The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Example, Arguing, Strategy

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• I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

  Thomas Schelling

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

  David Quammen

  Important, Library, Climate

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• There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House.  While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the President’s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Strong, Smart, White

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• The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

  Tim Yeo

  Change, Years, Issues

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• I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.

  Bill de Blasio

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Fighting, Winning, Climate

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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• Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

  Don Cheadle

  Climate, Way

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• Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Earth

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our Generation

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• It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Selfish

  "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

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• It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

  Cass Sunstein

  Climate, Aids, Accomplished

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