Global Warming Quotes

• Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, Environmental, Kind

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Weather, Foundation

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. April 06, 1999.

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• Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

  Joe Lieberman

  Challenges, Conqueror

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• One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Dark, Night

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

  Al Gore

  Smoking, Cigarette, Significant

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• With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

  James Inhofe

  Men, Hysteria, People

  "Politics Reasserts Itself in the Debate Over Climate Change and Its Hazards" by Andrew C. Revkin, www.nytimes.com. August 05, 2003.

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• 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

  Philosophical, Reality, Threat

  Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.13, Macmillan

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• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Depression, Insanity

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• The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Government, Decision, Political

  "Former NASA Advisory Council Chair Jack Schmitt Quits Planetary Society Over New Roadmap". Resignation from Society Letter from Harrison H. Schmitt, www.spaceref.com. November 17, 2008.

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• The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

  Jerry Falwell

  Organization, America, Sick

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

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• Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

  Tony Blair

  World, Splits, Politics

  Labour Party Conference Speech in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Self, Facts

  "Will Arnold Be Back After '06?" by Ed O'keefe, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2006.

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• NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2. This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.

  Walter Cunningham

  Aqua, Water, Information

  "In Science, Ignorance is not Bliss". waltercunningham.com.

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• The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

  Donald Trump

  World, Weapons, Nuclear

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Data

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• As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Democracy, Ambitious, Prosperity

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• The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Long, Entering, Warning

  Al Gore (2007). “The Assault on Reason”, p.230, Penguin

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• Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  "'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled': climate-change talk from an unlikely source" by David Runnalls, www.theglobeandmail.com. February 1, 2013.

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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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• Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.

  David Bellamy

  Numbers, Worry, Vision

  "The Truth About Global Warming - It's the Sun That's to Blame" by Michael Leidig and Roya Nikkhah, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 18, 2004.

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• The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Waiting, Challenges

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• Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Real, Wind, Attention

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

  Al Gore

  Real, Earth, Hussein

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