Global Warming Quotes - Page 8

• When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations, which I don't agree with, or with private property principles. Nobody has the right to pollute their neighbors' air or water or land.

  Ron Paul

  Two, Air, Land

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• [.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights

  Kent Hovind

  Dream, Rights, Hype

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• As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Years, Two, World

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Leader, Political

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• Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Too Late, Warning

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• Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

  Bill McKibben

  Names, Weather, Energy

  "Hurricane Irene Can Be Tied to Global Warming, Says Bill McKibben" byBill McKibben, www.thedailybeast.com. August 25, 2011.

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• In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Order, Eugenics, Wiping Out

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• The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

  Al Gore

  Effort, Details, Research

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.40, Routledge

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• Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

  Penn Jillette

  Knows

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• Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

  Michio Kaku

  Driving, Controversial, Controversy

  "Monster snowstorms still spell global warming" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2011.

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Obstinacy, Fashionable, Consensus

  "Empowering girls is about rights, not just economics" by Tanya Barron, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

  Jesse Ventura

  Real, Believe, Saving

  "Jesse Ventura Body-Slams the Climate Change “Conspiracy” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Real, Inspiration

  "Jesse Ventura Body-Slams the Climate Change “Conspiracy” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

  Alice Walker

  War, Air, Water

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• We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

  will.i.am

  War, Want, Outcomes

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

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• Global warming my gluteus maximus

  Sammy Wilson

  Climate Change

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• India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.

  Manmohan Singh

  Energy, India, Industrialization

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• All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Smart, School

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• The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

  Al Gore

  Science, Oil, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale

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• Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

  Christopher Landsea

  Weather, Doubt, Energy

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• Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Numbers, Issues, People

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• Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Thinking, Ice, Melting

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• Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

  John McCain

  Self, Environmental, Serious

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• I think that if it is - has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens - all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 25.

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