“Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people — they're just, they're just literally lying.”

— Eric Schmidt

'They're just literally lying': Google’s Eric Schmidt on cutting ties with conservative group http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/09/22/theyre-just-literally-lying-googles-eric-schmidt-on-cutting-ties-with-conservative-group in SFGate (22 September 2014).

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