Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

I believe the science we have seen does not support the need to engage in questionable policies to control so-called 'global warming.’

There are those who say that climate change is a hoax, a concoction of radical environmentalists and a liberal media. That is simply hogwash.... To ignore and dismiss the threat of climate change to the economy and the environment is like insisting the earth is flat.

If 98 doctors say my son is ill and needs medication and two say, “No, he doesn’t, he is fine,’ I will go with the 98. It’s common sense-the same with global warming. We go with the majority, the large majority...The key thing now is that since we know this industrial age has created it, let’s get our act together and do everything we can to roll it back.

The science is clear. The economics is clear. As usual, the politics is the problem.

Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

Call me a converted skeptic. Prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct … humans are almost entirely the cause.

We can beat back the forces of climate change, but we must choose to do so. You’re either on the side of your fellow residents of this planet, or you are on the side of the storms as yet unnamed.

Global warming is socialism in drag.