“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”
- Barack Hussein Obama , May, 17 2008.
“Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.”
- Ellen Goodman
“My nominee was a woman — a victim of abuse. A strong, resilient woman who is a constant topic of discussion these days: Mother Earth.”
- Brian Williams
“This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.”
–speaking of global warming opponents
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr
“The earth has a fever. And the fever is rising…[Something] basic is wrong. We are what is wrong…”
- Al Gore
“Manhattan will be underwater by 2050.”
- Harry Smith
“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science-fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame-retardant.”
- Al Gore
“[T]o me, the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war. We will have regional conflicts and use or force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.”
- Hans Blix
“This is an emergency . . . it’ll make world war look like heaven.”
- John Edwards , 2007.
“If we continue at the present rate, virtually all the species of fish in the ocean will be extinct in the next 50 years.”
- Al Gore