Eleven Political Thought Leaders Who Doubt Climate Change

“I think mankind has been adopting—or adapting—to climate for as long as man has walked the earth. When it rains, we find shelter. When it’s hot, we get shade. When it’s cold, we find a warm place to stay. I think that it’s inevitable that humanity will adapt to global warming. Adaptation to shifts in temperature is not that difficult.”

Congressional hearing on climate change legislation, March 25, 2010

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“We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming—and I am using my finger quotation marks here—is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh, I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? Not very long.”

On The Bill Bennett Show, March 6, 2010

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“I believe that [the bible] is the infallible word of God, and that’s the way it’s going to be for his creation. The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.”

House hearing on climate change, March 25, 2009

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“[T]he idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you’ve got more carbon dioxide.”

On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, April 19, 2009

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“With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is.”

Senate floor, July 28, 2003

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“We know [the most powerful people on the planet] are capable of continuing the charade on global warming, even though the consensus is currently imploding—there is no consensus! The scientists themselves are saying that. The science is bogus, it is falling apart … they’re willing to bankrupt the entire world for a lie.”

Glenn Beck, February 23, 2010

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“But you know—’cause I’ve seen arguments on both sides of it that at times—like I’ll watch something about man-made global warming, and I go ‘Wow, that’s fairly convincing.’ And then I’ll go out and watch the other side of the argument, and I go ‘Huh, that’s fairly convincing too.’ So, I got to be honest with you, I don’t know. And that’s probably one of the reasons why I became a lawyer, and not a doctor, or an engineer, or a scientist, because I can’t figure this stuff out.”

Speaking at a town hall on November 10, 2010

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“The science about global warming has changed. I think [climate scientists] have oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in question. The whole movement has taken a giant step backward.”

Press conference, Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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“If you take a look at geologic time, we’ve had huge climate swings. We’re sitting here in Wisconsin—if it wasn’t for climate swings, we’d be sitting on a 200–300-foot-thick glacier. Man wasn’t around back then. So no, I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity, or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate. We’ve witnessed a repeal—Middle Ages was an extremely warm period of time, too, and it wasn’t like there were tons of cars on the road.”

Interview with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 16, 2010

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“Those promoting [listing polar bears as an endangered species] really want to shut down oil and gas leasing in Arctic coastal waters off Alaska … and it didn’t make any sense because it was based on these global warming studies that now we’re seeing is a bunch of snake oil science.”

Speaking at a logging industry conference, February 8, 2010

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“There isn’t any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.”

Interview with Human Events, April 29, 2010

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