Jay Leno Quotes

The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

The economic impacts of global warming and climate change are every bit as real as the environmental impact..

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

President Bush said global warming is happening much quicker than he thought, and then his staff pulled him aside and said 'It's just springtime.'

This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?