Climate Quotes · Page 180

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

— Naomi Oreskes

I walked away from Kyoto because it would damage America's economy, you bet. It would have destroyed our economy. It was a…

— George W. Bush

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a…

— Bret Stephens

There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent…

— George W. Bush

There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds…

— Christine Todd Whitman

We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in…

— Hillary Clinton

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need…

— Ronald Reagan

It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the…

— Neil Young

If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a…

— Tom Vilsack

I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean…

— William M. Gray

I want the American people to focus on is that we can generate a tremendous amount of energy revenues as result of…

— Anthony Scaramucci

At OS Fund, we don't invest in particular problems. Instead of trying to solve energy or climate change or the spread of…

— Bryan Johnson

“Human beings are by nature reactive. If we were proactive animals, global warming, for one, would not be a contested topic today.…

— Anonymous

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be…

— Peter DeFazio

You can't say British Columbia's carbon tax is exactly the same as increasing hydroelectricity rates in another province. They're very different mechanisms,…

— Christy Clark

What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife…

— Barbara Boxer

We're going to get to the point where we ask how the hell we put up with high carbon for so many…

— Christiana Figueres

The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of…

— Ron Wyden

We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less…

— Bernie Sanders

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place…

— Margaret Atwood

If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after…

— John Stuart Mill

“Here at the end of the world, with the climate crisis bearing down like Godzilla over downtown Tokyo, U.S. taxpayer subsidies for…

— Rachel Maddow

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are…

— Van Jones

There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a…

— Naomi Klein

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the…

— Pope Francis

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever…

— John Maynard Keynes

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed…

— David Attenborough

Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go…

— Barack Obama

I believe there is climate change. I'm not sure you can call it climate warming anymore, especially here in the Carolinas. I…

— Pat McCrory

There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the…

— Milton Friedman

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At…

— Bernie Sanders

There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward…

— Erik Paulsen

The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists…

— Maurizio Cattelan

To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us…

— Charles Eisenstein

Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean…

— Brian Schatz

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are…

— Christine Pelosi

If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and…

— Al Gore

There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming…All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in…

— John Williams