Joni Ernst Quotes

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

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

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

Climate does fluctuate. It goes from hot to cold. We have ice ages.

2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

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.

Climate change is real.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

There's no question that, um, you know, the oceans have risen, right? And the climate change part is, is a real part of it.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

Climate Change is a fact!

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am skeptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

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.

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

By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon.

I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.

Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such as winds, ocean currents, and sun activity. But the liberals want us to believe that climate change is also caused by gases expelled when humans burn so-called fossil fuels.

The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.

I don’t know the science behind climate change.