"To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest."
Stephen Schneider,
climate alarmist,
from the October 1989 Discover magazine
"No matter if the science is all phony, there are still collateral environmental benefits" (from anti-global warming policies) ... "Climate change (provides) the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."
Christine Stewart,
Canadian environmental minister
"The greenhouse effect must play some role. But those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperature is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork."
Henrik Svensmark,
Director of the Centre for Sun-Climate Research, Danish National Space Center, quoted in the Copenhagen Post, on October 4, 2006
"The advent of a new ice age, scientists say, appears to be guaranteed. The devastation will be astonishing."
Gregg Easterbrook,
"Return of the Glaciers", Newsweek, November 23, 1992
We've already had too much economic growth in th US. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure."
Paul Ehrlich,
"green guru"
Al Gore
-- self-proclaimed global warming guru:
-- self-proclaimed global warming guru:
His actual college grades,
for the two science courses he took:
- Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) = grade of "D"
- Natural Sciences 118 = grade of "C+"
Source: The Washington Post, 2000
"We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?"
Phil Jones, PhD
Co-creator of the now infamous "Hockey Stick Chart", along with Michael Mann, defending their bogus "government work" against a Congressional investigation.
"The bad news is that the climate models on which so much effort is expendable are unreliable because they still use fudge-factors rather than physics to represent important things like evaporation. clouds and rainfall."
Freeman Dyson, PhD
Princeton physicist
“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first century’s developed world went into a hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.”
Richard S. Lindzen, PhD
MIT Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and former lead author, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
"Why are the opinions of scientists sought (about global warming) regardless of their field of expertise? Biologists and physicians are rarely asked to endorse some theory in high energy physics. Apparently, when it comes to global warming, any scientist's opinion will do. The answer most certainly lies in politics."
Richard Lindzen, PhD,
"Global Warming: The Origin of Consensus", Environmental Gore, 130
“ … developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.”
Ottmar Edenhofer
Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin, co-chair of Working group III of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Germany.
“The proof that CO2 does not drive climate is shown by previous glaciations. The Ordovician-Silurian (450 to 420 million years ago) and Jurassic-Cretaceous (151 to 132 million years ago) glaciations occurred when the atmospheric CO2 content was more than 4,000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) and about 2,000 ppmv respectively. The Carboniferous-Permian glaciation (360 to 260 million years ago) had a CO2 content of about 400 ppmv, at least 15 ppmv higher than the present figure. If the popular catastrophist view is accepted, then there should have been a runaway greenhouse (warming) when CO2 was more than 4,000 ppmv. Instead there was glaciation. Clearly a high atmospheric CO2 does not drive global warming and there is no correlation between global temperature and atmospheric CO2. This has never been explained by those who argue that human additions of CO2 to the atmosphere will produce global warming.”
Professor Ian Plimer
(from page 165 of his book: “Heaven and Earth”)
Plimer was a two-time winner of Australia’s highest scientific honor, the Eureka Prize, and a professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide.
Plimer was a two-time winner of Australia’s highest scientific honor, the Eureka Prize, and a professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide.
“Environmentalism is an urban religion disconnected from nature, or rural life, or the realities of food and mineral production. This environmental religion is terrified of doubt, skepticism and uncertainty yet claims to be underpinned by science. … Like many fundamentalist religions, it attracts believers by announcing apocalyptic calamities unless we change our ways. … Logic, questioning or contrary data are not permitted.”
Professor Ian Plimer
(from page 463 and 464 of his book: “Heaven and Earth”)
"Today we remain locked in what is essentially still the Pleistocene Ice Age, with an average global temperature of 14.5 C. This compares with a low of about 12 C. during the periods of maximum glaciation in this Ice Age to an average of 22 C. during the Greenhouse Ages, which occurred over longer time periods prior to the most recent Ice Age. During the Greenhouse Ages, there was no ice on either pole and all the land was tropical and sub-tropical, from pole to pole. As recently as 5 million years ago the Canadian Arctic Islands were completely forested. Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on Earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species."
Patrick Moore, Ph.D.
Statement before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight -- February 25, 2014
Statement before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight -- February 25, 2014
" ... the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on climate change says that humans are responsible for most of the warming since the mid-20th century, that’s 1950, only 67 years ago.
So they (IPCC) say for the first 4.6 billion years of the earth history, the climate was changing due to natural factors, like solar and Milankovitch cycles and ocean currents, there are many natural factors that affect the climate, but since 1950, 67 years ago, humans are now the dominant force in the climate change on the earth?
There is no proof, if there was a proof, that human CO2 emissions were the cause of warming in the climate, they would write it down on a piece of paper, so we can read it and see it, but they have no such proof.
All they have is the hypothesis based on the idea that CO2 is a greenhouse gas like water vapor, only water vapor is probably a 100 times more important than CO2. So they just say this, they say CO2 is a greenhouse gas, therefore it’s the cause of climate warming. They have no proof whatsoever to back it up. "
Patrick Moore, PhD,
From a conversation with Grégoire Canlorbe, in Paris, December 2017 for the climate-realist conference day, on behalf of the French “Association des climato-réalistes”.
“The growing evidence that (temperature) records have been adjusted, that the impact of urban heat islands has been downplayed, and that data sets have been slanted in order to fit the theory of dangerous anthropogenic (man made) global warming does not make it false; but it should produce much caution about basing drastic action upon it."
“Then there’s the evidence that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide, which is a plant food after all, are actually greening the planet and helping to lift agricultural yields."
“A tendency to fear catastrophe is ingrained in the human psyche. Looking at the climate record over millions of years, one day it (a climate catastrophe) will probably come; whatever we do today won’t stop it, and when it comes, it will have little to do with the carbon dioxide emissions of mankind.”
Tony Abbott
Abbott was a former Prime Minister of Australia,
From his speech: "Daring to Doubt"
2017 Annual GWPF Lecture, October 9, 2017