John Shimkus Quotes

The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever.

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

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

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Climate change is crap.

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

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

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.

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

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

The American people know that climate change is the kind of problem only America can solve.

I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.

I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.

The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.

Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.

Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.

The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change - but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not 'job done.'

I believe that climate change is real, is driven mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme weather events, hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.

I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.

I do absolutely believe that the climate is changing. I'm not prepared to determine causation.

On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.