Global Warming Quotes - Page 8

• When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations, which I don't agree with, or with private property principles. Nobody has the right to pollute their neighbors' air or water or land.

  Ron Paul

  Two, Air, Land

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• [.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights

  Kent Hovind

  Dream, Rights, Hype

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• As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Years, Two, World

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

  Bill McKibben

  Names, Weather, Energy

  "Hurricane Irene Can Be Tied to Global Warming, Says Bill McKibben" byBill McKibben, www.thedailybeast.com. August 25, 2011.

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• Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Leader, Political

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• Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Too Late, Warning

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• There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

  John Coleman

  Men, Weather, Chaos

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• As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

  John Olver

  Powerful, Taken, Years

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• [Global-warming debate] some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Climate, Campaigns, Kind

  "Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?" by Simon Shuster, content.time.com. August 2, 2010.

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• The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Civilization, Kyoto

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

  Ted Turner

  People, Trying, Serious

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• The report on climate change said that humans are very likely making the planet warmer. To which Hillary Clinton said, 'Hey, can't blame me for that one.'

  Jay Leno

  Climate, Hey, Blame

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• Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

  Arthur Smith

  Scary, Important, Ongoing

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• The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Hands, Chemistry

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• If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

  Brian Cox

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Doubt, Fuel, Fossils

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• As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

  John Olver

  Jobs, Risk, Body

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• Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Past, Weather, Climate

  "Has 'denying' won?". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. June 24, 2017.

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• We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

  Ted Turner

  Children, People, Energy

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• Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

  John Coleman

  Scams, Hoaxes, Policy

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• We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop.

  Anthony D. Barnosky

  Numbers, People, Leader

  Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.213, Island Press

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• It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

  John Coleman

  Data, Long, Political

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• We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Becoming, Too Late

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• Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Oil, Challenges, Humanity

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• It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Government, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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