Climate Quotes - Page 4

• Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

  Nigel Lawson

  Kyoto, Criticism, Littles

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• The climate change argument is absolute crap

  Tony Abbott

  Argument, Crap, Absolutes

  "The 7.30 Report" with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. February 02, 2010.

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• What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

  Lord Byron

  God, Men, Common

  Don Juan canto 1, st. 63 (written 1818)

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• The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.

  Steve McIntyre

  Past, Errors, Data

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• I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

  Tony Abbott

  Climate Change, Knows

  "Tony Abbott draws 'Battlelines' for the Liberal Party Transcript". Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. July 27, 2009.

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Australia, Patterns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

  James Inhofe

  Thinking, People, Arrogance

  "James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. March 8, 2012.

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• You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Honesty, Fear, Thinking

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• Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.

  Peter Garrett

  Government, Media, Order

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• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

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• My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

  Piers Corbyn

  Bronze Medal, Views, Years

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• The climate continues to deteriorate.

  Donella Meadows

  Aggravation

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Funny, Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Weather, Hell

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.24, Penguin

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• We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

  O. Henry

  Weather, May, Achieve

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin

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• I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

  William Hague

  Believe, Commitment, Growth

  "William Hague tells ministers to help green industries boost economy" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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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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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

  Piers Corbyn

  Weather, Limits, Computer

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• Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Waiting, Politics

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• Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

  Lewis Gordon

  Challenges, Problem, Everest

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• Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Fire, Sea, Availability

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

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• Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Reality, Epidemics

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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