Don Young Quotes

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.

The American people know that climate change is the kind of problem only America can solve.

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

Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.

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.

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.

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.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

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

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 and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.

If 98 doctors say my son is ill and needs medication and two say, “No, he doesn’t, he is fine,’ I will go with the 98. It’s common sense-the same with global warming. We go with the majority, the large majority...The key thing now is that since we know this industrial age has created it, let’s get our act together and do everything we can to roll it back.

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

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

Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.

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

Al Gore has a lot to do with the mainstream attention to global warming, but you can't call him a fad, even if he did dance the Macarena.

Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.

Every day, we're learning about what's happened with global warming and what's happening all around the world, and our employees and our customers are really feeling that it's time to step up and make a difference.

Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.

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