Steven F. Hayward Quotes

• The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Urban Renewal, Government, Liberty

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• Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Economics, Environmentalism

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• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Assessment, Political, Climate

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• ... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Ice, Age, Littles

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• A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Men, Resilience, Climate

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• As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Class, Hysteria, Islands

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• In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not 'skeptics' about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Events, Global Warming, Accepting

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