Global Warming Quotes - Page 27

• It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told what light bulbs we can and cannot use...through legislation. We are being forced to fund research into alternative energies sources that are inefficient, and that cause the price of food, energy, and everything else to rise...through legislation...rather than allow free enterprise to allocate funds to those energy sources that will survive through good old American innovation!

  Mike Thompson

  Light, Scary, Innovation

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• Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed, the more recent numbers show that there is now evidence of significant cooling [...] Mankind is responsible for just a fraction of one percent of the effect from greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what causes warming (e.g., the Sun).

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Numbers, Rising, Sun

  "Global Warming: Is It Really a Crisis?" by John R. Lott Jr., www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2008.

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• The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

  Philip K. Chapman

  America, Years, Europe

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• The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed greatly since fossilized life began on Earth nearly 600 million years ago. In fact, there is only 1/19 as much CO2 in the air today as there was 520 million years ago. That high CO2 was hardly the recipe for disaster.

  Greg Benson

  Air, Years, Earth

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• The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

  Al Gore

  Moon, Thinking, People

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• It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

  Tom Segalstad

  Atmosphere, Fiction, Burning

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• Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Years, Trying, Needs

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• Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

  Freeman Dyson

  Order, Climate, Normal

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• It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

  Freeman Dyson

  Believe, Climate, Littles

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• There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

  Freeman Dyson

  Doubt, World, No Doubt

  Freeman J. Dyson (2007). “A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe”, p.27, University of Virginia Press

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• The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.

  Freeman Dyson

  Ocean, Average, Fiction

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• We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

  Freeman Dyson

  Atmosphere, Carbon, Happens

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• Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dubious, Climate, Input

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• We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

  Freeman Dyson

  Long, Environmental, Natural

  Freeman J. Dyson (2007). “A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe”, p.29, University of Virginia Press

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• It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

  Freeman Dyson

  Experts, Facts, Honest

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• We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

  Prince Charles

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

  "Prince's plea over climate change". news.bbc.co.uk. October 27, 2005.

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  These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

  Sarah Palin

  Snakes, Oil, Study

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• It is deeply pejorative to call someone a "climate change denier". This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.

  Richard D. North

  Ideas, Holocaust, Climate

  "Why do people become climate change deniers?" by Richard D. North, www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk. June 30, 2005.

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• The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

  David Chaytor

  Government, Challenges, Earth

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• We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Suffering, Together

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  Barack Obama

  Tired, Fundamentals, Problem

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

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• While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ambition, Knowing

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement.

  Peter Lilley

  Men, Expectations, Driving

  "Peter Lilley: 'I am a global lukewarmist' and other quotes" by Lauren Niland, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.

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• I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that.

  Christie Hefner

  Gun, Years, Weather

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