Global Warming Quotes - Page 5

• We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

  Amory Lovins

  Home, Alaska, Oil

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• The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Country, War, Oil

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• Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

  Brian Mulroney

  Kyoto, Process, Prove

  Brian Mulroney (2011). “Memoirs”, p.1308, Emblem Editions

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• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

  Al Gore

  Baby, Fiction Novels, Doctors

  "Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet". www.washingtonpost.com. March 21, 2007.

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• Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

  Christiana Figueres

  Environmental, Energy, Climate

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• If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

  Mary Robinson

  Leadership, Women, Climate

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• August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

  George Monbiot

  Bad Day, August, Mad

  "The day the world went mad" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Change, Environmental, Climate

  "Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?" by Nicolas Loris, www.dailysignal.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.

  Al Gore

  Degrees, Hot, Earth

  "The Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien, November 11, 2009.

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• Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

  Wesley Clark

  Children, Fighting, Water

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• Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

  Bill Bryson

  Cancer, Science, Thinking

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• I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these blistering summers. They have broken heat records in a number of cities already this year and broken all-time records and it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels.

  Pat Robertson

  Summer, Years, Ice

  "Pat Robertson: I’m ‘A Convert’ On Global Warming, ‘It Is Getting Hotter’". thinkprogress.org. August 03, 2006.

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• At least once per year, some group of scientists will become very excited and announce that:
  •The universe is even bigger than they thought!
  •There are even more subatomic particles than they thought!
  •Whatever they announced last year about global warming is wrong.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Groups, Lasts

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

  Gary Bauer

  Keys, Rights, Support

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• [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather ... What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes ... If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

  David Attenborough

  Attitude, Ocean, Grandchildren

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• Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

  Jeff Goodell

  Environmental, Climate, Pollution

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• It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter.

  Martin Rees

  Strong, Cancer, Thinking

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• In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'

  Ivar Giaever

  Mean, Average, Years

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• Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

  Mike Hulme

  Self, Normal, Climate

  Mike Hulme (2013). “Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society: An Anthology of Mike Hulme's Essays, Interviews and Speeches”, p.88, Routledge

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• The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Life, People, Support

  Prince Charles' Speech to a WWF gala dinner at Hampton Court Palace on the Prince's Rainforests Project, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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• It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.

  Stanley B. Goldenberg

  Lying, Media, Fringe

  "Buying the Vacant Illinois Senate Seat?". www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Issues, Long Ago, People

  "Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest 'scientific' reports, Livermore cheers for 'nukes forever' and a huge amount of self-serving noise on every subject from global warming to 'the face of God'.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Cheer, Science, Thinking

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• Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Oil, Our World

  "Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus on Barack Obama’s slum lord problem, and global warming, Indian style". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. July 2, 2008.

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