Quotes   by Roger King 

Al Gore's  web site talks about his film "An Inconvenient Truth"  "Our Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."  

Population and Global Warming Factsheet   at the Sierra Club  "Scientists around the world have concluded that flooded cities, diminished food production, and increased storm damage all seem likely [as a result of global warming]...and could affect the lives of billions of people."
-Christopher Flavin, Seth Dunn, Worldwatch Institute  

“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” -- Prince Phillip, patron of the World Wildlife Fund.

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara  "It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind, Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long. Scientists have said we have passed the point of no return,"

“We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” -- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator

“When we’ve finally gotten serious about global warming, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards, ‘denial industry’, some sort of climate Nuremberg.” -- Grist Magazine’s staff writer David Roberts (to whom both Vice President Al Gore and PBS Bill Moyers granted one-on-one interviews), September 19, 2006,

"The common enemy of humanity is man.  In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, would fit the bill.”  -- Club of Rome, environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations.

“We are on the verge of a global transformation.  All we need is the right major crisis...”  -- David Rockefeller, Club of Rome, consultants to the United Nations. 

"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." -- Stephen Schneider, IPCC (a UN agency) lead author.

"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." -- Sir John Houghton, first IPCC chairman and lead editor of its first three reports.

“It doesn’t matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true… You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.” -- Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace.

“Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.”  -- Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe columnist.

“This is treason. And we need to start treating them [global warming opponents] as traitors.” -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." -- Christine Stewart,  former Canadian Minister of the Environment.

“Manhattan will be underwater by 2050.” -- Harry Smith, CBS News, 2007.

“CEOs [of fossil energy companies] should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature." – James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

“This is an emergency… it’ll make world war look like heaven.” -- John Edwards, 2007.

“This new report on global warming, the most frightening yet. In Greenland and Alaska, scientists say ice is melting at rates that could see many coastal cities - including Boston, Charleston and right here in New York City- completely under water by this October.”  -- Michelle Kosinski , NBC News, April 2006.

“Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that’s what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.” -- Bill Maher, noted climatologist, March 2006.

“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is.” -- Al Gore, May 2006.

“Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what those scientists say.” -- Ross Gelbspan, retired, The Boston Globe.

“The population of the U.S. will shrink from 250 million to about 22.5 million before 1999 because of famine and global warming.”  -- Paul Ehrlich, author Healing the Planet.

“Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.” -- Steven Guilbeault, Greenpeace.

“The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need.” -- Louis Proyect, socialist, Marxist.

“A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.”  -- Richard Benedict, U.S. State Dept., Conservation Foundation.

“I would freely admit that on [global warming] we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.” -- Charles Alexander, reporter and editor, Time magazine.

“The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.” - Kenneth Boulding, originator of the Spaceship Earth concept.

“Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer… They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.” -- Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists.

“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects… We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, tear down dams, and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.” -- David Foreman, Earth First!

“If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy…” -- Amory Lovins, in The Mother Earth.

“The only real good technology is no technology at all.  Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.” -- John Shuttleworth, founder of Mother Earth News magazine.

“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.” -- David Foreman, Earth First!

“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day, 1970

“If we continue at the present rate, virtually all the species of fish in the ocean will be extinct in the next 50 years.” -- Al Gore, 2006.

“This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.” -- Lowell Ponte, The Cooling, 1976

“If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.” -- Kenneth E.F. Watt, Earth Day (1970)

  “There are probably already too many people on the planet.” -- Nina Fedoroff, U.S. State Department.

“We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.” -- Carl Amery, Green Party, 1983.

"I agree that the — whatever you want to call it, mainstream media — presents itself as unbiased when, in fact, there are built into it many biases and they are overwhelmingly to the left.  There is a real difficulty on the part of the mainstream media being sympathetic, or empathetic, to the kind of thinking that goes into conservative approaches to issues.” -- Thomas Edsall, Huffington Post, retired Washington Post reporter.

“There are enough [liberals] in the old media, not just in ABC, that it tilts the coverage quite frequently, in many issues, in a liberal direction... It’s an endemic problem.” -- Mark Halperin, ABC News.

"We are at the precipice of the end of the world." -- Chera Van Burg, Species Alliance.

“[Falling temperatures will cause the ice caps to sink into the ocean, producing] a global tidal wave that could wipe out a substantial portion of mankind, and the sea level could rise 60 to 100 feet.” -- Paul Ehrlich, author of the Population Bomb, 1970.

“I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.” -- David Brower. 

“I don’t like cutting trees down at taxpayers’ expense and destroying the forest, just so we can have a few jobs. That is like saying, Adolf Hitler trying to justify the Nazi concentration camps, it provided employment for people.” -- Ted Turner, conservative talk radio host.

 “[To conserve scarce resources, there is a] duty to die even when one would prefer to live… To have reached the age of, say 75 or 80 years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing.” -- John Hardwig, Professor and Head of Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee and moderator at the 2008 Conference on Ethics and the Environment.

“Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.” -- Gus Hall, Communist Party USA.

“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness with its full complement of species returning throughout the world.” -- David Foreman, lobbyist for the Wilderness Society.

“We in the Green Movement aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.” -- Carl Amery, environmental activist.

“The environmentalist’s dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and much more equally.” -- Aaron Wildavsky, political scientist.

“We routinely wrote scare stories… Our press reports were more or less true… We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.” -- Jim Sibbison, former press officer for the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental journalist.

“I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. We have become a plague… Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” -- David Graber, U.S. National Park Service ecologist.

“If you give it a chance, I think you might agree that the extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species… [It] will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.”  -- David Foreman, environmentalist.  

"The time for denial [man-made global warming denial] is over." – Barack Obama, 2008.

"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction.” – Al Gore, 2006.

"By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic." -- Sir James Lovelock, environmentalist, futurist.

“The journal Science, reports the amount of ice being dumped into the ocean from the Greenland Ice Sheet has doubled in the last 5 years. A full breakdown would result in a catastrophic global sea level rise of 7 meters.” – Greenpeace International, 2006.

“Climate Change is the greatest threat that human civilization has ever faced."  -- Angela Merkel, German Chancellor.

“We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California.

“We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth." -- Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, 1992.

“Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.” -- Club of Rome, consultants to the United Nations.

“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable... It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation." –- the UN Commission on Global Governance.

“World civilization as we know it will soon end. We have very little time and we must act.   If we can address the environmental problem, it will have to be done within a new system, a new paradigm.” -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Club of Rome, State of the World Forum, 1996.

“A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.” -- Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister.

"Stephen Hockman's proposal for the world environment court is an interesting one. His proposal is one that will be taken into account in terms of discussions about how we make those agreements [with developing countries] binding."  -- Gordon Brown, British PM.

"The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before." -- Dame Judi Dench, noted Physicist and Climatologist.

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" -- Maurice Strong, senior advisor to Kofi Anon, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, founder of the UN Environment Programme.

“The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization… will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government." -- Mikhail Gorbachev, State of the World Forum, 1996. 

“In my view, after fifty years of service in the United Nations system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government." – Dr. Robert Muller, United Nations Assistant Secretary General.

“Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance." -- Lester Brown, WorldWatch Institute.

“Regionalism must precede globalism. We foresee a seamless system of governance from local communities, individual states, regional unions and up through to the United Nations itself." -- UN Commission on Global Governance.

“Effective execution of Agenda 21… will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level." -- UN Agenda 21.

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States…  We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are." -- Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund.

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption… and set levels of mortality control." -- Professor Maurice King.

“It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it." -- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute.

“A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible." -- United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment.

"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." -- Ted Turner, founder of CNN and donor of $1B to United Nations causes.

"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion." -- Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind, consultants to the United Nations.

"In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point." -- Edwin Newman, Earth Day 1970.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken.

“The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated.” -- Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder.

“The invention of the concept of sustainable human development… and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security." -- Pranab Mukherjee, India's Minister of Commerce, Earth Times, 1994.

“Global Warming; It is a scam.  There is no run away climate change.  The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.  In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious.” -- John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel.

Patrick Moore, a cofounder and director of Greenpeace, resigned because of its "trend toward abandoning scientific objectivity in favor of political agendas… the [Berlin] wall came down, and a lot of peaceniks and political activists moved into the environmental movement bringing their neo-Marxism with them and learned to use green language in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually have more to do with anti-capitalism… than they do anything with ecology or science."