Global Warming Quotes - Page 6

• Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Children, Natural, Economy

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• The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

  Al Gore

  Groups, Shrinking, Rage

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview With Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

  Jim Clyburn

  Organization, Community, Important

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• I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Next, Problem

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• Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

  Godfried Danneels

  Ocean, Ice, Cities

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• Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.

  Roy Spencer

  Understanding, Majority, Climate

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• We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

  Al Gore

  Gratitude, Optimistic, Years

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Kyoto Protocol, Issues, Environmental

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• If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None

  Mark Steyn

  School, Adults, Firsts

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• Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Country, Time, Real

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• Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Real, Thinking, Keys

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Florida, Environmental

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• Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly....As a scientist I remain skeptical.

  Joanne Simpson

  Organization, Receiving, Speak

  "Buying the Vacant Illinois Senate Seat?" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2008.

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• 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, Climate

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• Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity.

  Khabibullo Abdusamatov

  Atmosphere, Growth, Levels

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• Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Issues, Climate, May

  Speech at Institute of Physics, London, June 2008.

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• The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Responsibility, Environmental, Important

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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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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• I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Real, Believe, Climate

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• Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.

  Al Gore

  Real, Challenges, News

  Al Gore's testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee, and the Science and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Climate Crisis, abcnews.go.com. March 21, 2007.

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.

  Barack Obama

  Teamwork, Together, Action

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, Lines, Hysterical

  "Global Warming Swindle". www.creators.com. March 14, 2007.

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• President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, President, Hoaxes

  "Clint Eastwood talks about convention chat with chair". www.foxnews.com. September 7, 2012.

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• America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Issues, Environmental

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• The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

  Al Gore

  America, Civilization, Risk

  Al Gore's Speech on On Renewable Energy at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., www.npr.org. July 17, 2008.

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