Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

The ice doesn't care who's in the White House. It doesn't care which party controls your congress. It doesn't care which party controls your parliament. It just melts.

I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I've seen the changes that have taken place in the Antarctic, in the Himalayas, where the natural ice has sort of faded away, and there's no doubt in my mind that we're living in a strange world, a world which is not easy to understand or handle, But there's nothing you can do about, you just have to live your life as best you can.

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

The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner.

Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think.

Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.

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

I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

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

Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.