Kyoto Quotes

• Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

  Andrew Card

  Country, World, Flaws

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• I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

  David Hockney

  Taken, Garden, Degrees

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Cost, Starting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

  Goran Persson

  Thinking, Kyoto Protocol, Substance

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• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  Hans Blix

  War, Kyoto Protocol, Iraq

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Years, Issues

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Taken, Kyoto Protocol, Ideas

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

  Brian Mulroney

  Global Warming, Process, Prove

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

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• The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Real, Thinking, Issues

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• When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Duplicity, Hypocrisy

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• The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

  Laurent Fabius

  Kyoto Protocol, Withdrawal, Process

  "Anger over Bush energy plan". www.cnn.com. May 18, 2001.

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• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  "Fred Thompson on global warming" by Brian Romans, www.wired.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto

  Matsuo Basho

  Long, Cuckoos, Hearing

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Japan, Dresses, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.

  Stephen Harper

  Kyoto Protocol, Doe, Smog

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• Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

  Vikas Swarup

  Heart, Style, Culture

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• The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

  Enric Sala

  Sea, Needs, Protocol

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• The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Europe, Caps, Taxes

  "POLITICO Q&A: Jim Sensenbrenner" by Lisa Lerer, www.politico.com. December 3, 2009.

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• It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

  Graham Joyce

  Christian, Eels, Wings

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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• I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Paper, Printed

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Holiday, Phones

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• The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

  Christopher Flavin

  Challenges, Structure, Plans

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• The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

  William Nordhaus

  Kyoto Protocol, Environmental, Strategy

  William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

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• The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

  James Hansen

  Country, United States, Different

  "We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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