Top 70 Quotes About Kyoto
#1. I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.
Henry L. Stimson
#2. As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station,
Alice Steinbach
#3. I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on.
Hermann E. Ott
#4. It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
P. Chidambaram
#6. When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
John F. Kerry
#7. 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
#9. Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
Andrey Illarionov
#10. Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.
David Suzuki
#11. 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
#12. I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
Larry Ellison
#13. The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
William Nordhaus
#14. It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
Graham Joyce
#15. The Kyoto Protocol ... the first component of an authentic global governance ...
Jacques Chirac
#16. The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.
Enric Sala
#17. Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.
Ally Carter
#18. I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.
Susumu Tonegawa
#19. The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become - or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.
Christopher Flavin
#20. Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.
Stephen Harper
#21. I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Ryoji Noyori
#22. Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.
Nigel Lawson
#23. 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
#24. If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets?
David Suzuki
#25. Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
Hanya Yanagihara
#26. The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.
James Hansen
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
Matsuo Basho
#32. The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.
Noam Chomsky
#33. The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.
Andrey Kapitsa
#34. 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
#35. I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.
Susumu Tonegawa
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
Bjorn Lomborg
#39. I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney
#40. The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
Bjorn Lomborg
#41. 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
#42. In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
Ryoji Noyori
#43. Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
Roman Coppola
#44. Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
Andrew Card
#45. The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.
James Hansen
#46. The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
Ted Kulongoski
#47. I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Richard Dawkins
#48. The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
Laurent Fabius
#49. The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#50. The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what's happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto.
Ross McKitrick
#51. You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.
Osama Bin Laden
#52. 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
#53. Even in Kyoto longing for Kyoto hototogisu
Basho Matsuo
#54. Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.
Stephen Harper
#55. 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
#56. An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#57. Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
Brian Mulroney
#58. Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
P. J. O'Rourke
#59. 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
#60. Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
Vikas Swarup
#61. The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation.
Norris Brock Johnson
#62. Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
William Nordhaus
#63. Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.
Judith Clancy
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
Paul Watson
#67. Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.
Norris Brock Johnson
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
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