Bill de Blasio Quotes

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

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

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

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

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

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.

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

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.

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.

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

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.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

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.

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

I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

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.

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

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

Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.