David Harsanyi Quotes

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues.

Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

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.

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.

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.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

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

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.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

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.

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

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

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.

Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

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.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.