Warming Quotes

• Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Inspiration
  • Gospel
  • Preach

• Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Pretend

• I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Concern
  • Obsession
  • Excess

• Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.

  

  Paul Fleischman
  • Happen
  • Warming
  • Droughts

• For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.

  

  David Bellamy
  • Men
  • Global
  • Carbon

• It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Warming
  • Increases
  • CO2-emitting

• There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.

  

  Keith E. Idso
  • Failing
  • Confusion
  • Doomsday

• When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Charity
  • Liquor
  • Cigars

• The retreat of the Arctic sea ice, the warming of the oceans, the rapid shrinking of the glaciers, the redistribution of species, the thawing of the permafrost—these are all new phenomena. It is only in the last five or ten years that global warming has finally emerged from the background “noise” of climate variability. And even so, the changes that can be seen lag behind the changes that have been set in motion. The warming that has been observed so far is probably only about half the amount required to bring the planet back into energy balance. This means that even if carbon dioxide were to remain stable at today’s levels, temperatures would still continue to rise, glaciers to melt, and weather patterns to change for decades to come.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Balance
  • Climate
  • Species

• The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.

  

  William McChesney Martin
  • Position
  • Reserve
  • Federal

• We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming.

  

  Andrew Simms
  • Century
  • Global
  • Warming

• With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • Problem
  • Causes
  • Global

• A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Change
  • Climate
  • Warming

• If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?

  

  David Edelstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Tomorrow

• These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.

  

  Keith E. Idso
  • Important
  • Environmental
  • Phenomenon

• Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded.

  

  D. James Baker
  • Climate
  • Faster
  • Warming

• If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be “committed to extinction” by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum—a figure that now looks too low—by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Team
  • Species
  • Extinction

• The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.

  

  Andrey Kapitsa
  • Levels
  • Warming
  • Carbon Dioxide

• Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.

  

  David Bellamy
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Energy

• The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

  

  Wallace Smith Broecker
  • Records
  • Climate
  • Beast

• Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.

  

  David Bellamy
  • Worry
  • Vision
  • Politician

• Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.

  

  William Nordhaus
  • Policy
  • Benefits
  • Climate

• Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.

  

  William M. Gray
  • Government
  • Humans
  • Funding

• They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.

  

  David Bellamy
  • Say
  • Global
  • Warming

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