Global Warming Quotes - Page 25

• Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  Environmental, Earth, Climate

  "Experts: Climate Change Threatens Peace" by Charles J. Hanley, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

  Lucien Bouchard

  Survival, Environmental, Species

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• I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Thinking, Nuclear, Vastness

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• The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Forests, Climate Change

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• In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

  Yosef Abramowitz

  Years, Pace, Judaism

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• I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

  Bill Kurtis

  Years, Weather, Events

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• The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

  Bill Kurtis

  Ohio State, Drs, Done

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• A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, America, Oil

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• The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Opportunity, Support

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• Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

  Tom Allen

  Independence, Foundation, Energy

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• America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

  Denis Hayes

  Technology, America, Cities

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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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• Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.

  Robert Wagner

  Fun, Believe, Needs

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• According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House.

  Jay Leno

  Fun, Thinking, White

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Race, Dwelling

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• We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

  David Graeber

  Suicidal, Energy, Viruses

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• Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

  David Bellamy

  Nature, Money, Trying

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• Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.

  Al Gore

  Our World, Energy, Causes

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

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• Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.

  Sheryl Crow

  Night, College, Compassion

  "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Forget about whether global warming exists. My focus is on jobs.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Jobs, Focus, Forget

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• The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Lying, Email, Toady

  "Live Earth Disappoints With Everything But Shrill Rhetoric". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. July 9, 2007.

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• As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Men, Weather, Community

  "Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'" by Gene J. Koprowski, www.foxnews.com. February 03, 2011.

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• We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Energy, Too Late, Environment

  "Schwarzenegger Backs Global Warming Bill". The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 27, 2006.

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