Vaclav Klaus Quotes

The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, they can change climate. Man can't change climate.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

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

Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.

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

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

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.

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

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.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

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.

I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

For us to try and step in and say we have got to do all these global things to prevent the earth from getting any warmer in my opinion is absolute nonsense. It’s not going to happen

The carbon lobby knew perfectly well that global warming posed real dangers, but it chose to deny those dangers and disparage anyone who sought to bring them to public attention. The lobby put its immediate economic interests ahead of humanity’s future well-being.

Global warming is socialism in drag.

You either agree to implement the President’s policies or you resign. My conscience would not allow me to implement the withdrawal from the environmental Paris Accords.

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.

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