Susan Estrich Quotes

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

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.

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.

The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.

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

When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

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

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

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

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.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

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

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.’

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