Climate Quotes by Naomi Oreskes

When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.

— Naomi Oreskes

“Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,”

— Naomi Oreskes

“The tobacco road would lead through Star Wars, nuclear winter, acid rain, and the ozone hole, all the way to global warming.…

— Naomi Oreskes

“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through … a steady increase in carbon dioxide from…

— Naomi Oreskes

I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated…

— Naomi Oreskes

“The chapters written by the natural scientists were broadly consistent with what other natural scientists had already said. No one challenged the…

— Naomi Oreskes

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of…

— Naomi Oreskes

“By the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves began to…

— Naomi Oreskes

What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community…

— Naomi Oreskes

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong…

— Naomi Oreskes

There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in…

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Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to…

— Naomi Oreskes

“CO2 had increased due to human activities, CO2 will continue to increase unless changes are made, and these increases will affect weather,…

— Naomi Oreskes

“Santer and his colleagues have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between…

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“Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, wrote a report questioning the evidence of global warming.15 They were soon invited to the White House…

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“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its…

— Naomi Oreskes

“In case after case, Fred Singer, Fred Seitz, and a handful of other scientists joined forces with think tanks and private corporations…

— Naomi Oreskes