Global Warming Quotes - Page 13

• Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

  Jeff Merkley

  Research, Causes, Pollution

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  Ted Cruz

  Earth, Today, Accepted

  "Ted Cruz: ‘Global Warming Alarmists Are The Equivalent Of The Flat-Earthers’" by Kate Sheppard, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2015.

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• Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is much stronger.

  Don Aitkin

  Ocean, Historical, Stronger

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• Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.

  Don Aitkin

  Grandchildren, Direct Effect, Ice

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• How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.

  Don Aitkin

  Data, Quality, Climate

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• My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Firsts, Carbon, Claims

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• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Cutting, Fundamentals, Facts

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

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• Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Leaving, Brain, Bed

  "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming" by Daniel Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2007.

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• We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Children, Impact, June

  "Meet Generation Hot" by Mark Hertsgaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.

  Ross McKitrick

  Lying, Collaboration, Layers

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• Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world's ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute for light oil due to its extreme capital, energy, and carbon intensity. Bitumen looks, smells, and behaves like asphalt; running an economy on it is akin to digging up our existing road infrastructure, melting it down, and enriching the goop with hydrogen until it becomes a sulfur-rich but marketable oil.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Running, Oil, Smell

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• We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy

  Gary L. Francione

  Flesh, Should, Dairy

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• When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

  Jeff Goodell

  Coal, Gorillas, Rooms

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• It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

  Jeff Goodell

  Party, America, Effort

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• I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

  Moby

  Stupid, Toxins, Toads

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.

  William M. Gray

  Boys, Government, Research

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• Global warming is such a politically charged issue that we are losing our perspective on the issue and more importantly losing an open forum from which to discuss the issue. If we lose the right or comfort level to openly discuss and debate this issue we will not be able to tackle it efficiently and economically.

  Topper Shutt

  Issues, Perspective, Comfort

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• A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

  Bill McKibben

  Spiritual, Voice, Facts

  "It’s Time for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

  Andrew Simms

  Half, Century, Half A Century

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• I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists.

  Craig F. Bohren

  Mean, Numbers, Dubious

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• There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect on the climate, but the numbers indicate that effect is relatively minor.

  John Christy

  Should Have, Numbers, Atmosphere

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• Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

  Martin Durkin

  Careers, Alarms, Ugly

  "The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2007.

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• Time is running out for nature and wildlife around the world

  Jennifer Morgan

  Running, World, Wildlife

  "Time is running out" by Oliver Balch, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2004.

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• When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Argument, Economic

  "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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