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“There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.”

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Author:George Monbiot

“The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon.”

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Author:Peter Lesley

“Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.”

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Author:David Goodstein

“Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost”

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Author:Walt Mossberg

“By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.”

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Book:Energy: The Solar Prospect

Source: Energy: The Solar Prospect

“To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.”

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Author:Connie Hedegaard

“The wind and the sun are free.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Everything will be solar in 30 years.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it...Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.”

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Author:Steve Holliday

“If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.”

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Author:Amory Lovins

“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.”

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Author:Amory Lovins

“With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.”

“To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.”

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Book:Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death

Source: Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death

“...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.”

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Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America.”

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Author:Carol Browner

“We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home - Earth - is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.”

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Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.”

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Book:An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

Source: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

“...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”

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Author:Al Gore

“The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.”

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Author:James Hansen

“The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.”

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Author:James Hansen

“Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.”

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Author:James Hansen

“...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.”

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Author:James Hansen

“There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.”

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Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.”

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Author:Lois Capps

“The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.”

“The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There is no way I can see to stop this rise, even if we have gone to zero emissions.”

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Author:Stefan Rahmstorf

“The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.”

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Author:James Hansen

“In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040.”

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Author:Peter Wadhams

“Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.”

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Author:Andrew Revkin

“We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.”

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Author:Mohamed Nasheed

“Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.”

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Author:Richard Lindzen

“But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text.”

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Author:Frederick Seitz

“Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.”

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Author:Timothy Ball

“We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.”

“...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.”

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Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.”

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Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

“I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.”

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Author:Christopher Landsea

“In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society, I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.”

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Author:Frederick Seitz

“The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.”

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Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

“If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?”

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Author:Scott Pelley

“...the possibility of circular reasoning arises-that is, using the temperature record to derive a key input to climate models that are then tested against the temperature record.”

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Author:Theodore Wilbur Anderson

“...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

“On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.”

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Author:David Douglass

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