Paul Krugman Quotes

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

The ice doesn't care who's in the White House. It doesn't care which party controls your congress. It doesn't care which party controls your parliament. It just melts.

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

Global warming, climate change, it's a total.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

The whole thing [climate change] is bogus and made up, designed like they always do to scare you.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

I have not seen proven proof that [climate change] is entirely man-made.

I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.

I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

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.