The Great Global Warming Debate
More and more these days, global warming appears to be an accepted problem in society. In some ways, this is true, but many still debate the existence and extent of the problem. Consider the following positions taken by prominent individuals and groups.
You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to. - Roger Ebert, on Al Gore’s movie about global warming.
There’s a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know — except maybe Newton’s second law of dynamics, said D. James Baker, administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity. - Piers Corbyn
If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows. - Dave Barry
Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science. - Dr Martin Keeley
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to. - Joe Lieberman
Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren’t worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It’s that simple. - Kary Mullis, Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization. - Al Gore
The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be eliminated [within 50 years] unless much more substantial reductions in emissions are made than those envisaged [and will] probably be irreversible, this side of a new ice age. - Jonathan Gregory, climatologist
The United States has a duty not to put obstacles in the way of the fight against global warming, but on the contrary to take the lead in this fight, because what is at stake is the fate of humanity as a whole. France will make this battle its primary battle - Nicolas Sarkozy
those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It’s pure guesswork. - Henrik Svensmark
When the penny drops to President Bush that global warming is really serious, they’re going to be in trouble. - James Lovelock
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