Climate Change Quotes - Page 30

• The world still awaits a proper inquiry into climategate: one that is not stacked with global warming advocates and one that is prepared to cross-examine evidence, interview critics as well as supporters of the CRU and other IPCC players, and follow the evidence where it clearly leads.

  Ross McKitrick

  Player, Energy, Inquiry

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• Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

  Christopher Flavin

  Sunshine, Wind, Energy

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• We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

  Murari Lal Sharma

  Impact, Energy, Action

  "Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified". Interview with David Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 24, 2010.

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• We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

  John Guillebaud

  Doctors, People, Car

  "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.

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• I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.

  Mark Lynas

  Science, Hands, Judging

  "A climate of censorship" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2006.

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• Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

  Roy Spencer

  Team, Men, Effort

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• To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes...that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.

  Stanley B. Goldenberg

  Believe, Impact, Weather

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• Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

  Sharon Begley

  Weather, New Normal, Energy

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• It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'

  Roy Spencer

  Strong, Average, Weather

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• The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

  Emily Oster

  Average, Ice, Weather

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• We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

  Craig D. Idso

  Past, Judging, Understanding

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• Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.

  Scott Mandia

  Mistake, Roots, Errors

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• If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.

  Richard Alley

  Games, Buttons, Video

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• You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Stupid, World, Earth

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  Carl Safina

  Believe, Science, Oil

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• The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.

  Raymond Pierrehumbert

  Climate, Bullets, Damage

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• However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

  Walden Bello

  Humanity, Environmental, Climate

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• The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  War, Environmental, Break Out

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• The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

  Barack Obama

  Denial, Delay, Global Warming

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• I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.

  Arnold Kling

  Carbon Emissions, People, Climate

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• Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

  Chris de Freitas

  Impact, People, Climate

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• We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

  Ben Stewart

  Reality, People, Climate

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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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• I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.

  Michael Hanlon

  Lying, Views, Years

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• A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mistake, Good Friend, Secret

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