Frederick Seitz Quotes

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

There are those who say that climate change is a hoax, a concoction of radical environmentalists and a liberal media. That is simply hogwash.... To ignore and dismiss the threat of climate change to the economy and the environment is like insisting the earth is flat.

Doing everything the scientists wanted us to do [to protect the environment] would be ruinous.

Government Enviornmental poisitions are tradeoffs. In that process, Democrats tend to worry more about the harm done to the enviornment and the health of the people; Republicans tend to worry more about harm to business and the economy.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

The whole action around a carbon pricing mechanism, or carbon tax, is what you do with the money. Both France and Washington state proposed solving climate on the backs of workers. And that's a bad strategy.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion 'Green' New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the economy under the guise of environmentalism have engaged in a new smear: If you don't buy into climate change hysteria, you're a 'denier' who doesn't care about the environment.

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past weekend, Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' earned more per screen than any film in the country. ... I dare say Gore's movie is the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation in history. ... Global warming: Can we live with it? ... It is time we did something, namely resign ourselves to doing nothing [on screen: Follow Congress' Lead]. ... For instance, when sea levels rise, we'll just build levees [on screen: Worked for New Orleans]

Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.