Global Warming Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Real, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Responsibility, Environmental, Important

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Issues, Environmental

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• What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

  Danny Glover

  Islands, Haiti, Climate

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• Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Children, Natural, Economy

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• Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

  Harold Lewis

  Successful, Long, Fraud

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• Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Issues, Climate, May

  Speech at Institute of Physics, London, June 2008.

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• President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, President, Hoaxes

  "Clint Eastwood talks about convention chat with chair". www.foxnews.com. September 7, 2012.

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• The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

  Al Gore

  America, Civilization, Risk

  Al Gore's Speech on On Renewable Energy at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., www.npr.org. July 17, 2008.

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• 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

  Energy, Facts, Environment

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• The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

  Aurelio Peccei

  Real, Men, Kyoto Protocol

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• I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Real, Believe, Climate

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• If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

  Paul Krugman

  Climate Action, Want, Opposition

  "Who Cooked the Planet?". www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2010.

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• We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

  Ben Stewart

  Reality, People, Climate

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