Thomas Friedman Quotes

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot.

I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I've seen the changes that have taken place in the Antarctic, in the Himalayas, where the natural ice has sort of faded away, and there's no doubt in my mind that we're living in a strange world, a world which is not easy to understand or handle, But there's nothing you can do about, you just have to live your life as best you can.

Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today.

Of course climate change is real.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

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

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Global Warming

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

That's all global warming ever was. For the scientists involved in it, it was a living. You go out and promote what the leftists wanted to hear, and you got grant money. And if you run around and really sound like you believe it, then they're gonna make you a star. And if you're Algore and you realize you can capitalize on your vice presidency, you can become a multimillionaire spreading this hoax, which he has done.

Climate change is a reality.

We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of millennia to come. But a few hundred million years from now, barring a fix by our descendants, this relentless heating will substantially change Earth's biosphere in ways that might not be survivable for us.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.

Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

Climate change poses a far greater threat to the outdoor industry than even the privatization of the public lands.