Rick Perry Quotes

Global Warming

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Global warming is socialism in drag.

Global warming might be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

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.

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

Climate change is here. We have to learn how to deal with it.

We now know beyond a doubt that global warming is a reality. And the question we must all answer is, what are we going to do about it?

With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the "dangers" of windmills.

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.

Climate change is a real thing that is happening in the Maldives. It is not something in the future… We are only 1.5 meters above sea level. Fossil fuel technology is obsolete; it has been around for too long.

Climate Change is a fact!

Global Warming knows no border. It does not discriminate. It affects us all.

Science is science, and there is no doubt that if we burned all the fossil fuels that are in the ground right now that the planet’s going to get too hot and the consequences could be dire.

The thing about climate change is that you’ll never know for sure until it’s way too late.

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

The only way we can hope to combat climate change, protect our precious land and water, and prevent future extreme weather disasters is to cut the carbon pollution that’s warming our planet, and replace dirty energy sources with clean, renewable sources.