Michio Kaku Quotes

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't.

The average global temperature has increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880, with two-thirds of the warming occurring since 1975.

Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.

I think the climate is changing, but I don't believe humans are causing that change to the extent that's been in the news.

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Global Warming

Global Warming -- a lot of it is a hoax. It's a hoax.

Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.

Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.