Graydon Carter Quotes

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

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.

Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

Bringing climate change to the forefront of American politics means making politicians feel the heat - in their campaign coffers and at the polls - and it's time we voters make a change.

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.

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

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.

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

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.

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.

There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues.

As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

People who have grown up in a world where this was not a concern and suddenly start hearing about climate change - it's very difficult. It's a very, very abstract concept. So we need to work on making it very educational and very, very clear, in very simple terms.

Anytime anyone spoofs anything related to the issue of global warming is good, because to me it's like, okay, gets the word out.

I see these people in Princeton, my home town, as they go marching for control of climate. It is a wonderful thing. I love their enthusiasm, their energy, their devotion to something very worthwhile.

Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.

Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.

Al Gore has a lot to do with the mainstream attention to global warming, but you can't call him a fad, even if he did dance the Macarena.

It is vital that MPs take the issue of climate change seriously and support the students in their activism. They can rest assured that I certainly do.