Chuck Fleischmann Quotes

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.

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

Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

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 socialism in drag.

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

Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

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

Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.

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

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

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

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.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

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.

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

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

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

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.

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