An Arena of Thoughts on Global Warming

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.

Information Administration projects that both U.S. coal use and carbon dioxide emissions are currently slated to increase by 40 percent by 2030. - Gus Speth, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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

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

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

It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter. - Lord Martin Rees

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 absolutely best case scenario - which in my opinion is unrealistic - with the minimum expected climate change... we end up with an estimate of 9% [of all species] facing extinction. - Chris Thomas, University of Leeds

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

Aazdak Alisimo writes global warming articles at SolarCompanies.com.

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