Clive Thompson Quotes

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

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

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.

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

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

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.

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.

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

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

I believe the science we have seen does not support the need to engage in questionable policies to control so-called 'global warming.’

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

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

Prominent scientists have become increasingly convinced that the connection between carbon emissions and rising temperatures is real, but skeptics have whole truckloads of studies to demonstrate the opposite.

I'm still convinced that - I'm sorry to say - the body of evidence shows that the planet is warming up. And it's warming up at a certain rate that has never been seen before in the history of the planet. We have to take that seriously.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

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.

Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step.

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.

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

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.

I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth.