Climate Debate Quotes

I don't need to be lectured by the Pope about climate change.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

The earth's climate has been changing since God created it, with or without man. On that, we should all agree.

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

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

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

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.

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

I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening with 100 percent confidence temperatures are rising.

In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling.

Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.

The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.

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

Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns — warm or cold — is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

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.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

I believe there is climate change. I'm not sure you can call it climate warming anymore, especially here in the Carolinas. I think the big debate is how much of it is man-made and how much of it will just naturally happen as Earth evolves.

Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

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.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

The climate is changing; I don't think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.