Jeff Goodell Quotes

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

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

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

Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

I happen to think the Paris accord, the Paris treaty, or the Paris Agreement, if you will, should have been treated as a treaty, should have gone through Senate confirmation.

Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

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.'

The countries in the Paris climate accord have broken almost every promise they've made, and the nation (the U.S.) that hasn't signed the treaty is doing more than any other nation to reduce global warming.

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

We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted by scientists around the world, scientists in our country and it's accepted by every country around the world with the exception of the United States.

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

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

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

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

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

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

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.

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.