Lisa Murkowski Quotes

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

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

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

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

Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.'

We do know that global warming has led to the increase in number and intensity of weather events.

Climate Change is a fact!

The risks brought about by climate change are a major concern. It goes without notice—unless people find out that 12 of the last 13 biggest climatic disorders have occurred in the last 10 years.

Our climate is always changing.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

The earth's climate has been changing since God created it, with or without man. On that, we should all agree.

Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.

The climate is changing, but the question is how much - and to what extent human factors are contributing to that.

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.

In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.

I believe there is climate change. I'm not sure you can call it climate warming anymore, especially here in the Carolinas. I think the big debate is how much of it is man-made and how much of it will just naturally happen as Earth evolves.

We're still putting 110 million tons of man-made global pollution into the air every single day as if the sky is an open sewer. More than 90% of the extra heat energy is going into the oceans, and that's why superstorm Sandy was so much more destructive, that's why the ice is melting more rapidly, that's why the water cycle is being disrupted and we get a lot more water vapor coming from the oceans into the sky, and that's why we get these enormous downpours and big floods. They happen all the time. Every night on the TV news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.