Bill Shorten Quotes

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.

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.

For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.

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

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

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

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

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.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Climate change is very real.

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

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.

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

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.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

There are those who say that climate change is a hoax, a concoction of radical environmentalists and a liberal media. That is simply hogwash.... To ignore and dismiss the threat of climate change to the economy and the environment is like insisting the earth is flat.

Climate Change is a fact!

Call me a converted skeptic. Prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct … humans are almost entirely the cause.

This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.

The earth is warming. Humans are contributing.

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

Climate change is a reality.