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Controversial Quotes On the Global Warming Controversy

By: Aazdak Alisimo

If you want to get someone fired up, but don't want to talk about abortion, global warming is a good subject to bring up. Fire and brimstone will soon be flying as people stake out their positions. Don't believe me? Just read the following.

Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not. - Professor David Bellamy

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.

Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's. - Warrick, Joby.

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

In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer. - Ron Kind

The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now. - Louis Proyect

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

Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism. - David King, UK government chief scientific adviser.

In comparison to 10 years ago, now all countries recognize that climate change is an important issue, that we must continue Kyoto, that the time after 2012 must be in our sights and that we must do everything possible to improve energy efficiency and, at the same time, facilitate economic growth. - German chancellor Angela Merkel

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

There is a significant minority of genuine experts in the field who believe that the Armageddon scenario is grossly oversold, especially by climatologists in pursuit of government funding and research grants. Such dissidents are treated as if they were heretics within an established religion. - Dominic Lawson

Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com

Aazdak Alisimo writes global warming articles at SolarCompanies.com.

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