“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
~ H.L. Mencken
“The climate system is a coupled
non-linear system and, therefore,
long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
~ IPCC report, 2001
“Every five years the UN-based International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes a ‘consensus of the world’s top scientists’ on all aspects of climate change. Quite apart from the dubious process by which these scientists are selected, such consensus is the stuff of politics, not of science. The claim that the IPCC has the world’s top 1500 or 2500 scientists is simply not true.”
~ Paul Reiter, PhD
Professor of Medical Entomology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, contributor to the third IPCC Working Group II, employee of the Center for Disease Control for 22 years.
“The vast majority of the climate models the IPCC uses as the basis for its predictions have repeatedly incorrectly forecast higher temperatures. According to an analysis by the Cato Institute, 105 of the 108 models predicted a higher surface temperature for the period between 1998 and 2014 than the temperature actually recorded.”
“The IPCC reports have been read in a similar way to the Bible: you try to find certain pieces or sections from which you try to justify your extreme views.
This resembles religious extremism.”
~ Petteri Taalas, PhD
Secretary General of the
World Meteorological
Organization (WMO)
“It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.”
~ Richard Feynman, PhD
Winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics
“The models were tuned, should we say… they are all parametrized…if I translate parametrized into English: fudged….we forced the models to include human influence.”
~ Patrick Michaels,
former professor of Climatology at University of Virginia, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, president of American Association of State Climatologists, and co-author of 2007 report of the International Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“The unavoidable conclusion is that an anthropogenic (man made) air temperature signal cannot have been, nor presently can be, evidenced in climate observables.”
~ Patrick Frank, PhD
physicist, Stanford Linear
Accelerator Laboratory,
Stanford University
“Global mean temperatures before 1980 are based on untrustworthy data.”
~ Mototaka Nakamura, PhD
International Pacific Research
Center School of Ocean and
Earth Science and Technology,
University of Hawaii
“Tripling CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere will be a major benefit to life on Earth.”
~ Will Happer, PhD
Physicist at Princeton,
and former director of the
Department of Energy’s
Office of Science
[That] “CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison…will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world.”
~ Richard Lindzen, PhD
MIT physicist, and former head of the
National Academy of Sciences
“The effects of CO2 are very small, maybe a few percent of the effects of water vapor.”
~ Reid Bryson, PhD
former professor of geology and meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founder of University of Wisconsin’s Department of Meteorology and Center for Climatic Research, first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies
“CO2 emissions don’t play the major role [in climate change]. Periodic solar activity does. Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change. That, in turn, implies that climate sensitivity to CO2 should be about 1.0 degree when the amount of CO2 doubles….All of it shows the same thing, the bulk of climate change is caused by the sun via its impact on atmospheric charge, which means that most of the warming comes from nature — a freshman physics student can see this."
~ Nir Shaviv, PhD
chairman of the Racah Institute
of Physics at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
“Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979-2000) lay outside the normal natural variability, nor was it in any way unusual compared to earlier episodes in Earth’s climatic history. Furthermore, solar forcings of temperature change are likely more important than is currently recognized.”
~ Willie Soon, PhD,
solar astrophysicist,
Harvard–Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
“These fires were not caused by climate change…the Amazon is not the ‘lungs of the world’…It’s bullshit.”
~ Dan Nepstad, PhD
Executive Director of and Senior Scientist at the Earth Innovation Institute, a lead author on the 5th IPCC Assessment Report, and world’s expert on the Amazon forest.
“The world is going to end in 12 years
if we don’t address climate change.”
~ Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC),
bartender turned climate activist
“Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death.”
~ Patrick Moore, PhD
co-founder of Greenpeace,
responding to AOC
“Just because there is a problem doesn’t mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.”
~ Bjorn Lomborg, PhD
former director of the
Danish government’s
Environmental
Assessment
Institute
“According to the global-warming people, I say what I say because I’m paid by the oil industry. Of course I’m not, but that’s part of their rhetoric. If you doubt it, you’re a bad person, a tool of the oil or coal industry.”
“It helps to be old.
I do not have to worry
about finding another job.”
~ Freeman Dyson,
legendary physicist
at Princeton’s Institute
of Advanced Study.
“The few who push back against the propaganda, such as Roger Pielke Jr., find themselves on the receiving end of abuse and career-threatening attacks, even though they have all the science in their corner. Something has gotten scary and extreme, but it isn’t the weather.”
~ Ross McKitrick, PhD
professor of economics
at the University of Guelph,
specializing in environmental
economics and policy analysis.
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
~ Maurice Strong,
former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first executive director of the United Nations Environment Program
“…one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth…”
~ Ottmar Edenhofer,
IPCC official speaking in November 2010
“We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right things in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
~ Tim Wirth, PhD
Former Senator,
chair of Clinton-Gore
chair of Clinton-Gore
Campaign, and UN official
“The Green New Deal wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
~ Saikat Chakrabarti,
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s
former Chief of Staff,
and founder of the
Justice Democrats
“We are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
~ Steve Schneider, PhD
Professor of Environmental Biology
and Global Change at Stanford University,
deceased
“The arrival of Greta Thunberg in New York on Wednesday was one of many recent events that illustrate how rapidly modern environmentalism is degenerating into a millenarian cult.”
~ Niall Ferguson, PhD
senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former senior research fellow at Oxford and Professor at Harvard and New York Universities.