Elizabeth May Quotes

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.

When it comes to climate change and the environment, President Donald Trump is plain wrong.

I don't need to be lectured by the Pope about climate change.

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

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

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

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

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 next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

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.

I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.

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

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.

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.

Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.

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.

Indeed, for all Donald Trump's railing about the efforts to curb climate change, nobody in his administration seems to have paid any attention to what they actually are.

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

The planet is heating; the climate is changing. We know this. We have not just one scientist, or two, but thousands screaming this at us at the top of their lungs. And we have a government full of disinterested, stubborn people who are going to cling to their denial and their nonsense.

Most of the Republican Party denies climate change and has fought all efforts to address it.

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 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.'

Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.