Global Warming Quotes - Page 15

• We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.

  Rowan Williams

  Government, People, Support

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• Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Team, Car, Climate

  "Rewriting the rulebook for 21st-century capitalism" by Jeffrey Sachs, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

  Al Gore

  Fate, Earth, Might

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.263, Routledge

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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Smoking, Humanity

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• It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

  George Monbiot

  People, Campaigns, Austerity

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

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• Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but you have to ask them, what is there a consensus on? Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I`m aware of is that it's warmed in the last century. They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change.

  Roy Spencer

  Talking, Ideas, Oregon

  "Exposed: The Climate of Fear". Interview with Glenn Beck, transcripts.cnn.com. May 2, 2007.

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• Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Climate, Facts, Humans

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• There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.

  Ian Plimer

  Years, Two, Lasts

  "Climate Change You Can Believe In" by Mark Steyn, www.nationalreview.com. July 25, 2009.

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• It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

  Mike Thompson

  Believe, Silence, Merit

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• In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming.

  Joanne Nova

  Names, People, Support

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• Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing funding, much of which is controlled by politically correct organizations.

  Peter Friedman

  Organization, Climate, Would Be

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• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Convincing Evidence, Environmental

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment! There should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest, but to date either few recognize this conflict, or see that since the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda, they chose to ignore this conflict. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.

  Roger A. Pielke

  Assessment, Decision, Political

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• The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments. Even worse, some of the wording in the science portions has been changed by policy makers after the scientists have approved the conclusions.

  Peter Friedman

  Assessment, Political, Groups

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• There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. There is no reliable evidence to support that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years.

  Peter Stilbs

  Strong, Years, Support

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• CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human CO2 emissions will have no measurable effect on climate, and continued CO2 emissions will have little or no effect on future temperature....While controlling CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels may have some beneficial effects on air quality, it will have no measurable effect on climate, but great detrimental effects on the economy and our standard of living.

  Jonathan Duhamel

  Player, Air, Quality

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• Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story.

  James Spann

  Mistake, Men, Pockets

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• ... The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming.

  Walter Cunningham

  Reality, Impact, Water

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• It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

  Jerry Brown

  World, Poverty, Prosperity

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• Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, United States, Osama Bin Laden

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• I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

  David Foreman

  Islands, Looks, Earth

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• The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

  Steve Stockman

  America, World, Fads

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• The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.

  Kathy Freston

  Animal, Numbers, Waste

  "Kathy Freston: On How to Become a Veganista". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Sacrifice, Order

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• First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Civilization, Worry

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