Environment trumps everything else
“The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.”
- Al Gore , 1992.
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Millions will starve in the 1970’s
“In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.”
- Paul Ehrlich , 1968.
$6 Gas, anyone?
“You’re also looking at a [global warming] solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.”
- Chris Cuomo , April 20, 2007.
By October 2006, New York is underwater?
“This new report on global warming, the most frightening yet. In Greenland and Alaska, scientists say, ice is melting at rates that could see many coastal cities- including Boston, Charleston and right here in New York City- completely under water by this October.”
- Michelle Kosinski , April 1, 2006.
WMD is Planet Earth
“Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that’s what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.”
- Bill Maher , March 24, 2006.
America is consuming to extinction
“Dependency on oil, look at our gas prices, look at health rates. We just can’t keep consuming ourselves into extinction.”
- Brad Pitt , July 18, 2006
Newsweek is (not) neutral
“Al Gore, who is now in contention as a possible presidential candidate and who is leading a campaign to recognize the potential danger of global warming. Hooray that he is back.”
- Eleanor Clift , December 24, 2006
Warm Weather = Death?
“So I’m running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can’t, I can’t figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?”
- Meredith Vieira , January 8, 2007
End of the world
“A controversy in Washington over what literally could be the end of the world as we know it. Did the Bush administration freeze out scientists trying to sound the alarm on global warming?”
- Matt Lauer , January 31, 2007
Stretching the truth is necessary to get people’s attention
“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”
- Al Gore , May 9, 2006