Michael Oppenheimer Quotations

One point stands out above all others, and that is that a modest global warming may put Earth in the danger zone for a major sea-level rise.

Mr. Nelson is certainly cooperating with the authorities. He wants to do whatever he can to help out.

I find these results troubling, disturbing, scary. Because despite the uncertainties, we're playing dice with the whole Earth here.

He got involved with some people who weren't so good, let's say, and he ended up, in the course of doing business, he ended up paying finders' fees and/or commissions to people who were not so good.

We care about global warming, because it's going to remake the face of the Earth. We are heading to a completely different world than the one we're used to.

We do have a little time, but not much. . . . If we don't get a serious program in place for the long term in this second post-Kyoto phase, we will simply not make it and we will be crossing limits which will basically produce impacts that are unacceptable.

We see very high vulnerability on the Jersey coast. These things are not going to happen tomorrow. It gradually unfolds over the course of the 21st century. But we will be spending ever-increasing amounts defending the coast.

They'll either have to provide a heck of a lot of beach replenishment or build something harder, like a sea wall,

I cannot think of a more heinous and egregious act.

The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.

The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States.

A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.

If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on Earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.

The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.