Global Warming Quotes - Page 25

• I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.

  Michael Hanlon

  Lying, Views, Years

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• Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be intolerable because you have to build an immense number of nuclear power plants, one large plant a week around the world for the next 40 years, to make a significant dent in the global warming problem.

  Arjun Makhijani

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Past, Years, Two

  "Four harsh truths about climate change". www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto accord is negotiated and put into effect, there will probably not be enough time left to stop the warming short of the point where we must not go.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Agreement, Years, Kyoto

  "Four harsh truths about climate change". www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Real, Oil, Environmental

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• Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on logic and facts that will address any problems without depriving us of liberty and personal choice. They do not want to sacrifice our way of life based on fears of an unproven theory. After all, the loss of liberty is a greater cause of alarm than global warming.

  Deneen Borelli

  Loss, Sacrifice, Choices

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• Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

  Jeff Goodell

  Climate, Earth, Manipulation

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• Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.

  Jeff Goodell

  Impact, Long, Climate

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• Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Climate, Bills

  Interview with Bill Gates, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• ...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.

  John Harte

  Ice, Leaving, Age

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• With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Causes, Problem, Time Travel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

  Jim Jeffords

  Divorce, Reality, Climate

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• Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been mounting on European Union Member States to act decisively to fight global warming. A bold target has been set reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 by 2020.

  Joseph Muscat

  Fighting, Reality, Issues

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• In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Thinking, America

  "An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

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• For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.

  David Bellamy

  Men, Years, Done

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• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Numbers, Meat, Looks

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

  Howard Wolpe

  Smart, Believe, Issues

  "Howard Wolpe: U.S. Rep. Fred Upton has become a 'right-wing extremist'". An Open Letter To Fred Upton, www.mlive.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Strong, Technology, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

  George Monbiot

  Refugee Crisis, Choices, Humanity

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• Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Realistic, Runaway

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• We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  People, World, Cruise

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• We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, People, Vision

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.193, Harper Collins

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• I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.

  Stephen Colbert

  Als, Made, Gore

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• The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

  David Hawkins

  Rejection, Addresses, Program

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• We're running out of time.

  James Hansen

  Running, Climate Change, Running Out Of Time

  "James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change". Interview with Tara Lohan, www.alternet.org. April 24, 2013.

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