Tim Minchin Quotes

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

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.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.

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

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.

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

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.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

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

No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate change is not a liberal versus conservative thing, but the people who profit from ignoring it want you to believe it is.

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.

When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem.

It's become a running joke among the public, and liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.