Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.


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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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Low fuel taxes will make it hard to fight global warming.
DAVE WOOD
Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on glob...
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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and cause...
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The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for...
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We thought we live in a global warming world, but this is actually not right. We lived in a global w...
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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to c...
DAVID SUZUKI
President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.
TOBY CHAUDHURI
Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
LARRY BRILLIANT
Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, sl...
TOM UDALL
We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, tra...
JACK DANGERMOND
The next step is for the Legislature to pass A.B. 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act. Bipartisan c...
DEVRA WANG
This winter makes global warming seem more real.
BUD GEHRING
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PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR.
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, th...
FRED BARNES
If we build coal plants with no carbon dioxide capture mechanism, there is no way we can prevent mas...
DAVID HAWKINS
There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the B...
SIMON BEAUFOY
I still am not convinced that global warming is any more than hysteria. It's like another fad and wi...
PAUL KELLEY
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.
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There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, prolifera...
PRESTON MANNING
Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you a...
MICHIO KAKU
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
FREEMAN DYSON
Global warming, global poverty, pollution, and terrorism constitute some of our biggest challenges i...
RAYMOND OBENG
Ford is a big part of the global warming problem, but they have failed to adopt more than token solu...
DAN BECKER
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
JAMES HANSEN
There couldn't be anything more irresponsible than to knowingly embark on a path towards massive inc...
GREG BOURNE
The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our econ...
JERRY FALWELL
I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years....
DENNIS MILLER
If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answ...
DAVE BARRY
The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that ma...
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global wa...
BRIAN MULRONEY
[In a recent issue of National Geographic entitled] Global Warming ... After a decade as Editor in C...
BILL ALLEN
save trees save earth....!!
NEYHA SAHU
[Now Prime Minister Dick Cheney has taken the anti-global warming crusade one giant step further. Ap...
DICK CHENEY
How lazy are we getting?! Just throw it in the recycling bin already!
GUSLOV PETRONOSKI
Scott goes to the computer and loads a chart that says something about global warming. Scott says, "...
ELLEN KENNEDY
Hurricanes, tornadoes and volcanoes are all Natural Disasters. We can't fit Global Warming into that...
VERONICA WHITE
Frankly, plowing contributes to greenhouse gases because the soil is the largest carbon sink on eart...
DUANE GRANT
As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing f...
ROBERT ZUBRIN
The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warm...
SONNY PERDUE
We were not expecting to get caught up in the global warming debate when we published our initial re...
JUDITH CURRY
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
JEFF GOODELL
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
JAMES INHOFE
I don't know if this is global warming but it sure seems like global storming.
KATHLEEN M BANKS
This poll underscores the fact that Americans want not only energy independence but also to find way...
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ROBERT ZUBRIN
If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest...
MARK Z. JACOBSON
The administration has insisted it's not their job to fight global warming. In fact they have both t...
DAVID BOOKBINDER
We're solving global warming one city at a time.
LISA RENSTROM
Maryland leaders took a historic step today in acknowledging the crisis of global warming and decidi...
MIKE TIDWELL
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - thr...
MARTIN REES
This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.
MATTHEW DAVIS
There's a real push toward energy independence and a cleaner source of energy as people start to tak...
TIM WOODWARD
All the consequences of global warming will occur more rapidly. That's the scary thing: the amount o...
GUY KIRK
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible su...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no...
GREG AUSTIN
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and i...
TED KULONGOSKI
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core ...
AL SECKEL
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorr...
AL GORE
Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and a...
DAVID SUZUKI
Global warming is wreaking havoc on amphibians and will cause staggering losses of biodiversity if w...
J. ALAN POUNDS
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
KEN LIVINGSTONE
Mutual funds investors and their their funds are completely at odds today on the topic of global war...
PAM SOLO
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER
The administration believes that global warming is a national, if not international, problem that ne...
TOM SNYDER
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
Just think if global warming gets worse. The fake snow industry - that's the upside that nobody look...
CONAN O'BRIEN
This is perhaps the most compelling evidence yet that global warming is happening right now.
TIM BARNETT
The administration has insisted it's not their job to fight global warming.
DAVID BOOKBINDER
All signs that I've seen show that it's related to natural variability. There could be some impact o...
ERIC BLAKE
The ocean is like this black box. We just don't know what's going on out there. Is it global warming...
BRODIE ANTIPA
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.
DAVID HAWKINS
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DAVE TRAGETHON
We're not convinced that global warming is playing an important role yet, or if at all, in this era ...
GERRY BELL
These studies each quantify, in a variety of ways, the risks we are already dealing with in the glob...
GARY YOHE
You can't point to a warm week or month and blame it on global warming.
ERIC HORST
Global warming is the greatest environmental threat we face. Fortunately, states are stepping up to ...
ERIC HAXTHAUSEN
The basic message is that global warming is already causing species extinctions and a lot of them.
J. ALAN POUNDS
All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidat...
FARAAZ KAZI
You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.
CRAIG FERGUSON
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causin...
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As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first...
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The greenhouse effect I am knowing;
To protest right now I am going,
But oh my gee whiz, ALAN COOK
certainly has an element that global warming is contributing to.
JUDITH CURRY
Federal officials have now acknowledged that global warming is transforming the Arctic, and threaten...
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I think it's a very important acknowledgment that global warming is transforming the Arctic and thre...
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The global warmers ... predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They d...
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It is increasingly clear that global warming makes [hurricanes] more severe and destructive. Katrina...
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[March 2002 Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in...
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As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elega...
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There will be increased merger activity as global energy companies find buying proven reserves more ...
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This study provides even stronger scientific evidence that global warming will result in catastrophi...
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This was a wonderful start before a packed crowd. It shows that the people in the Valley take global...
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Global warming has really taken off since the 1970s. The warming in the past several decades has bee...
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