Quotes About Kyoto Protocol

#1. The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

Andrey Illarionov

#2. The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

Enric Sala

#3. To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Christine Todd Whitman

#4. We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

Goran Persson

#5. For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance," ... "By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

Jacques Chirac

#6. It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

Eileen Claussen

#7. The Kyoto Protocol ... the first component of an authentic global governance ...

Jacques Chirac

#8. The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

William Nordhaus

#9. When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

Nancy Pelosi

#10. The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Laurent Fabius

#11. I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.

John Christy

#12. Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

Stephen Harper

#13. The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

Al Gore

#14. In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.

Jennifer Morgan

#15. On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

Hans Blix

#16. I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

Barry Sternlicht

#17. Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

Andrey Illarionov

#18. The night has a thousand eyes.

John Lyly

#19. We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

Andrey Illarionov

#20. The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Bjorn Lomborg

#21. In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

Charles Krauthammer

#22. Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.

William Nordhaus

#23. Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.

Stephen Harper

#24. It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

Patricia Churchland

#25. Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small ... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.

Tom Wigley

#26. If some of my judgments were wrong
and some were wrong
they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation,

Richard M. Nixon

#27. I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's all he ever did.

CM Punk

#28. I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be.

Stephenie Meyer

#29. It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Paul Watson

#30. I can unzip the air and disappear inside it.

Jandy Nelson

#31. In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

Robert Wilson

#32. We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

Tim Wirth

#33. Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.

Thomas Schelling

#34. It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.

Henry Sylvester Jacoby

#35. 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, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... The real enemy then is humanity itself.

Aurelio Peccei

#36. I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

James Ellroy