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Controversial Quotes On the Global Warming Controversy

By: Aazdak Alisimo

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.

Since global warming Eskimos now have twenty different words for water. - John O'Farrell

The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming - Professor Kirill Kondratyev, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

All this concern with the effects of global warming is another manifestation of being politically correct - Lord Young of Graffham

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

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

Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded. - NOAA Administrator D. James Baker

Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children. - Peter Ewins

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