Climate Lessons Header Quotes
These get changed at irregular intervals, usually every 2 to 5 weeks.
“After citing numerous challenges to the alleged 'settled science' of climate change, Dr Lindzen concluded his comments by saying "Perhaps we should stop accepting the term 'skeptic'. Skepticism implies doubts about a plausiable proposotion. The current global warming alarm hardly represents a plausible proposition, Twenty years of repetition and escalation of claims does not make it more plausible.”
Richard Lindzen, 17 Nov 2009, at US House of Representatives SubCommittee on Technology and Science
“Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct; these are circumstances very requisite to happiness, and will be cherished and cultivated by every honest man who feels the importance of them. Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with all their pretended cunning and abilities, betrayed by their own maxims; and while they purpose to cheat with moderation and secrecy, a tempting incident occurs, nature is frail, and they give into the snare; whence they can never extricate themselves without a total loss of reputation, and the forfeiture of all future trust and confidence with mankind.”
David Hume, An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
David Hume, An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
“The arrogance of global warming activists and their fellow travelers in politics is something I know well from the past. They wish to suppress truth, control the market and dictate policy and I, who have spent most of my time living under communism feel obliged to warn against it.”
Vaclav Klaus, May 2011.
Vaclav Klaus, May 2011.
“Climate Change”. Never before in history, I doubt, has so much money ever been squandered, so much suffering and poverty exacerbated, so much economic damage been inflicted, so many lies promulgated and so much environmental destruction wrought in order to deal with a problem so microscopically miniscule.
Delingpole - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100091710/vote-blue-go-green-ruin-britain/
Delingpole - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100091710/vote-blue-go-green-ruin-britain/
removed 6/7/11
“It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not. Not only among politicians, but also among much of the media, and even among some of the public, the quest is not for truth about reality but for talking points that fit a vision or advance an agenda."
Thomas Sowell, http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/07/05/politics_versus_reality
Thomas Sowell, http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/07/05/politics_versus_reality
Removed 3/8/11
‘“One wonders if these people [Greenpeace climate campaigners] will ever look into the eyes of their children and confess that, rather than getting a real job, they chose instead to blight the childhoods of youngsters everywhere with hideous images and terrifying tales."
Donna Laframboise, http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/08/02/greenpeaces-fear-machine/
Donna Laframboise, http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/08/02/greenpeaces-fear-machine/
removed 13/10/11
“Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012”
Headline used for climate article in 2007: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/01/08/01291.html (hat tip: http://dailybayonet.com/?p=9095)
Headline used for climate article in 2007: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/01/08/01291.html (hat tip: http://dailybayonet.com/?p=9095)
Removed 1/11/11
Professor Judith Curry http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/27/candid-comments-from-global-warming-scientists/
Removed 7/11/11
“I've done my share of investigative reporting. But I've never seen a story like this one. -- No matter what IPCC rock I turn over, I find something scandalous.”
Donna Laframboise, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/11/07/almost-nothing-weve-been-told-about-ipcc-is-actually-true/#ixzz1pT1B3BQY
Removed January, 2012
Phil Jones, of CRU, http://www.di2.nu/foia/1120593115.txt
Removed 12 Feb 2012-02-12
“...it is very frustrating that after 25 years of the anti-pessimists being proven entirely right, and the doomsayers being proven entirely wrong, their credibility and influence waxes ever greater. That's the bad news. The good news is that there is every scientific reason to be joyful about the trends in the condition of the Earth, and hopeful for humanity's future, even if we are falsely told the outlook is grim.”
Julian Simon in 1995 (http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Articles/EARTHDA5.txt)
Julian Simon in 1995 (http://www.juliansimon.org/writings/Articles/EARTHDA5.txt)
Removed 20 Feb 12.
“We go out of our course to make ourselves uncomfortable; the cup of life is not bitter enough to our palate, and we distill superfluous poison to put into it, or conjure up hideous things to frighten ourselves at, which would never exist if we did not make them.”
Removed 27 Feb 2012-02-28
“…the global warming scare – the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history – has enabled some very bad people to do some very wrong things in the name of "saving the planet for future generations…”
James Delingpole, doughty battler for climate sense, Feb 2012
Removed 10 March 2012
“You know, from the plain and clear demonstration that I gave during my lecture, that the IPCC’s statistical abuse was just that – an abuse. Yet, perhaps out of misplaced loyalty to your professor, you raised your hands in denial of the truth. Never do that again, even for the sake of appeasing authority. In science, whatever you may personally believe or wish to be so, it is the truth and only the truth that matters.”
Removed 18 March 2012
“Climate science has… [been allowed to]… to dictate global policy and form a trillion dollar green industrial complex - all without applying a single quality system, without a single performance standard for climate models, without a single test laboratory result and without a single national independent auditor or regulator. It all lives only in the well known inbred, fad-driven world of peer review. To a medical researcher like myself, it's utter surreal madness.”
MichaelC58, commenting on an article
MichaelC58, commenting on an article
Removed 30 March 2012
“When will I be done with climate? Quite simply when it stops being a pathological science and starts acting according to the normal rules and conventions of scientific discourse. At that point I will, I'm afraid, simply lose interest in the whole business, and leave it to the experts to get on with their stuff, just as I leave most of the rest of science to the appropriate experts.”
Jonathan Jones, comment Dec 3, 2011 at 6:11 PM, http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/12/2/tim-barnett-on-the-hockey-stick.html
Removed 6 April 2012
"Climate Change. A term, which attempts to take the natural weather pattern and attribute it to the activities of humans. Heavily adopted recently for use to promote cave living, the idea that humans are a noxious virus on planet Earth, and the practice of greater separation between the rich and the poor. " One of the definitions of 'climate change' in the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=climate%20change)
"A senior Australian police officer specializing in organised-crime frauds tells me the pattern of fraud on the part of a handful of climate scientists may yet lead to prosecutions.
"Misleading public claims. An over-hyped press release. A paper which neglects to include materially relevant and contradictory information central to its core argument. All in all, just a normal day in climate science!"
Roger Pielke Jnr in connection with junk promoted by Munich Re - arch-exploiters of climate scaremongering.
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/fool-me-once-munich-res-thunderstorm.html
"Expensive energy is not a good thing for anyone, wealthy or poor. And in particular, more expensive energy condemns the poor to lives of increased misery and privation ... So I’m sorry, but I am totally unwilling to trade inexpensive energy today, which is the real actual salvation of the poor today, for some imagined possible slight reduction in the temperature fifty years from now."
Willis Eschenbach, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/13/we-have-met-the-1-and-he-is-us/
"The blind adherence to the harebrained idea that climate models can generate "realistic" simulations of climate is the principal reason why I remain a climate skeptic. From my background in turbulence I look forward with grim anticipation to the day that climate models will run with a horizontal resolution of less than a kilometer. The horrible predictability problems of turbulent flows then will descend on climate science with a
vengeance."
Henk Tennekes, http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/commentaries/tennekes_essays_climate_models.pdf
"Rig public enquiries, hound blameless people out of their jobs, breach Freedom of Information laws, abuse the scientific method, lie, threaten, bribe, cheat, adopt nakedly political positions in taxpayer-funded academic and advisory posts that ought to be strictly neutral, trample on property rights, destroy rainforests, drive up food prices (causing unrest in the Middle East and starvation in the Third World), raise taxes, remove personal freedoms, artificially raise energy prices, featherbed rent-seekers, blight landscapes, deceive voters, twist evidence, force everyone to use expensive, dim light bulbs, frighten schoolchildren, bully adults, increase unemployment, destroy democratic accountability, take control of global governance and impose a New World Order."
James Delingpole, 'Watermelons' (quoted here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100196238/why-we-fight/)
Removed 6 April 2012
“Not only does jumping from one panic to
another, each with disastrous consequences – mobile phone radiation, BSE, SARS,
crime, paedophilia, terrorism, bird flu, global warming – diminish our own
sense of agency, by turning childhood dreams of utopia into nightmarish visions
of the future it is teaching the citizens of the future all the wrong lessons.”
Lee Jones, 2007, http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2950/
Removed 15 April
2012
“I love my job but if the Government ever
forces me to scare my students in the name of “science” I will plainly refuse.
I would sooner lose my job than transfer the negatively geared,
sensationalistic, propaganda, intended at frightening children into believing
that the world is going to go to bits because of man-made global warming.”
Topical Teacher, http://topicalteaching.com/2012/03/06/our-children-and-the-disgusting-climate-of-fear/
Removed 23 April,
2012
“...theoretical
explanations of poorly known natural systems display a high mortality rate when
confronted with accumulating evidence ”
Gustav
Arrhenius, 1959. Quoted on page 76 of Fleming's 'Historical
Perspectives on Climate Change' (1998).
Removed 10 May 2012
Removed 22 May 2012
" ... I became outraged when I discovered that much of what the IPCC and the media were telling us was sheer nonsense and was not even supported by any scientific facts and measurements. To this day I still feel shame that as a scientist I made presentations of their science without first checking it."
Physicist and meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls, http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/09/the-belief-that-co2-can-regulate-climate-is-sheer-absurdity-says-prominent-german-meteorologist/
Removed 26 June 2012
"It is hard not to be dismayed by the feeble-mindedness of the useful idiots who are the cannon-fodder of Greenpeace, the World Wide Fund and suchlike sinister, corrupt, stinking-rich, taxpayer-subsidized environmentalist mega-corporations that cynically profit from the doom-laden falsehoods they so artfully but mendaciously peddle to the ignorant and the innocent."
Christopher Monckton, 25th June 2012. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/25/dont-worry-about-the-ickle-birdies/#more-66194
Removed 24 September 2012
"We all know that climate scientists have said their computer models show that the world is going to get warmer, and catastrophically so. And they are very sure of this. They are more reticent about their models’ almost unbroken record of overestimating future warming but, undeterred by these shortcomings, other scientists then take the model predictions as gospel truth and try work out what this warming might mean in terms of impacts on the real world. Then the economists get involved; they crunch the numbers even further, giving us the economic cost of the theoretical impacts of the hypothetical predictions of the unvalidated climate models."
Andrew Montford, 21st September 2012. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/09/alex-salmond-is-betting-on-the-scots-subsidising-electricity-for-the-english/
Removed 11 October 2012
"It could not be simpler: if the rain falls or drought strikes; if the wind blows a gale or there is none at all; whether it’s heat or hard frost; it’s all ‘because of the greenhouse effect’, and we are to blame! An easy argument but stupid! The Fourth Report of the IPCC might just as well decree the suppression of all climatological textbooks, and replace them in our schools and universities with its press communiqués!"
Marcel Leroux. 'Global Warming: Myth or Reality' ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/11/tabloid-climatology-may-be-the-real-reason-for-the-marcel-leroux-william-connolley-wikipedia-dustup/#more-72268)
Removed 7 November 2012
"Anthony Watts is as much a part of the climate science community as are those who wrote the IPCC reports. It is just that those who wrote those reports consciously decided to exclude viewpoints such as Anthony’s."
Roger Pielke, http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/interview-with-james-wynn-in-the-english-department-at-carnegie-mellon-university/ Referring to manager of this blog: http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Removed 15 November 2012
"Note this well: when the people who talk loudest about saving the planet lack the self-discipline to avoid pointless air travel and consumption, when even they can’t bring themselves to forfeit their annual getaway in order to spare the environment, the rotten heart of the climate change movement becomes clear."
Donna Laframboise, http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/11/27/the-climate-change-echo-chamber/
Removed 05/01/13
It's absurd. They're not the ones who've a) ignored the geological
record, b) constantly mistaken cause with effect, c) ignored the
satellite data, d) ignored the radiosonde balloon data, e) failed to
understand the basic law of inverse solubility, f) played with and hid
the data, g) utilized climate models which violated the basic principles
of forecasting AND WHICH PROVED WRONG, g) failed to even entertain the
notion of alternative causes (plate tectonics, underwater volcanoes,
cosmic rays, sunspot cycles, the Pacific Decodal Oscillation, lunar
cycles, increases in the solar field, cloud cover, etc.), h) conspired
and thoroughly corrupted the entire peer-review process, i) failed to
understand the logarithmic nature of the CO2/warming relationship, j)
failed to understand that the earth's climate is a nonlinear, dynamic,
and chaotic system which cannot be readily reduced to the workings of A
theory......................................................................And
the fact that skepticism is itself such an integral part of science,
that alone should have set off firecrackers. "The science is settled/the
debate is over." LMFAO" 'Contra O'Reilly' http://paranoiacstoogetalk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/on-idiotic-notion-that-global-warming.html
“Assume that bad weather never happened in the past, and then blame all
bad weather on climate change. It works with teenagers who have no
historical memory, have been brainwashed by Al Gore, and never paid
attention until a few weeks ago.”
Steven Goddard, http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/the-mckibbenmonbiotromm-climate-game/Removed 22 May 2012
" ... I became outraged when I discovered that much of what the IPCC and the media were telling us was sheer nonsense and was not even supported by any scientific facts and measurements. To this day I still feel shame that as a scientist I made presentations of their science without first checking it."
Physicist and meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls, http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/09/the-belief-that-co2-can-regulate-climate-is-sheer-absurdity-says-prominent-german-meteorologist/
Removed 26 June 2012
"It is hard not to be dismayed by the feeble-mindedness of the useful idiots who are the cannon-fodder of Greenpeace, the World Wide Fund and suchlike sinister, corrupt, stinking-rich, taxpayer-subsidized environmentalist mega-corporations that cynically profit from the doom-laden falsehoods they so artfully but mendaciously peddle to the ignorant and the innocent."
Christopher Monckton, 25th June 2012. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/25/dont-worry-about-the-ickle-birdies/#more-66194
Removed 24 September 2012
"We all know that climate scientists have said their computer models show that the world is going to get warmer, and catastrophically so. And they are very sure of this. They are more reticent about their models’ almost unbroken record of overestimating future warming but, undeterred by these shortcomings, other scientists then take the model predictions as gospel truth and try work out what this warming might mean in terms of impacts on the real world. Then the economists get involved; they crunch the numbers even further, giving us the economic cost of the theoretical impacts of the hypothetical predictions of the unvalidated climate models."
Andrew Montford, 21st September 2012. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/09/alex-salmond-is-betting-on-the-scots-subsidising-electricity-for-the-english/
Removed 11 October 2012
"It could not be simpler: if the rain falls or drought strikes; if the wind blows a gale or there is none at all; whether it’s heat or hard frost; it’s all ‘because of the greenhouse effect’, and we are to blame! An easy argument but stupid! The Fourth Report of the IPCC might just as well decree the suppression of all climatological textbooks, and replace them in our schools and universities with its press communiqués!"
Marcel Leroux. 'Global Warming: Myth or Reality' ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/11/tabloid-climatology-may-be-the-real-reason-for-the-marcel-leroux-william-connolley-wikipedia-dustup/#more-72268)
Removed 7 November 2012
"Anthony Watts is as much a part of the climate science community as are those who wrote the IPCC reports. It is just that those who wrote those reports consciously decided to exclude viewpoints such as Anthony’s."
Roger Pielke, http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/interview-with-james-wynn-in-the-english-department-at-carnegie-mellon-university/ Referring to manager of this blog: http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Removed 15 November 2012
“The Mauritsen et
al. paper is a detailed description of the lengths to which climate
modelers have gone to force their models to give the desired results. This is because, by their own admission, their
models are incapable of giving real results. What is more, the prospects of
them being able to do so in the foreseeable future are not good. This is why
putting one's faith in computer climate models is a fool's game—unfortunately
fools abound in our world.”
Doug L. Hoffman, http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/secrets-climate-modeling-mystics
Removed 27 November 2012
Removed 27 November 2012
"Note this well: when the people who talk loudest about saving the planet lack the self-discipline to avoid pointless air travel and consumption, when even they can’t bring themselves to forfeit their annual getaway in order to spare the environment, the rotten heart of the climate change movement becomes clear."
Donna Laframboise, http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/11/27/the-climate-change-echo-chamber/
Removed 05/01/13
"Global
warming became a cause to save life on earth before it had a chance to become
good science. The belief that fossil fuel use is an emergency destroying
our planet by CO2 emissions took over the media and political arena
by storm. The issue was politicised so quickly that the normal scientific
process was stunted."
Karen McQuillan, 2011, http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/scientists_in_revolt_against_global_warming.html
Removed 27/01/13
Removed 27/01/13
"On the Idiotic Notion that the Global Warming Skeptics are Anti-Science
Removed 05/03/13
"If we get no warming for another year or too, then there will be no school students who have experienced global warming in their lifetime."
'Andy scrase' commenting here: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/3/5/a-despotism-over-the-mind.html
Removed 24/03/13
"We have normal people like me who realize that to be green is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. I do think clarity is important." Rich Koslovich
Hat-tip: http://antigreen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/i-have-found-another-million-green-jobs.html#links
Removed 04/03/13
"Secretary [of Education] Bennett makes, I think, an interesting analogy. He says that if you serve a child a rotten hamburger inAmerica
Ronald Reagan, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/022288a.htm
Removed 08/05/13
"The global warming scientific establishment is starting to look like the final days of the Soviet Union. On the surface it appears impregnable and the dissidents are a minor problem. But the huge soviet edifice quickly collapsed when people lost their fear of the system and the functionaries stopped following orders. There came a point when everyone decided to stop living a lie."
Norman Rogers, http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/is_roy_spencer_the_worlds_most_important_scientist.html
Removed 04/10/2013
"Reassuring people about environmental and resource scares is not easy. It is like reassuring a small child that night noises do not imply danger. You can investigate room after room with the child. But the fears reappear later, and are directed to places you did not investigate. Perhaps vague fears are an ineradicable part of our nature, so long as we lack solid knowledge of the actual conditions. But policymakers must try to rise above the childish and primitive thinking of these scares, and to gain the necessary knowledge, so as not to make costly and destructive decisions. "
Julian Simon, http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR18.txt
Peter Hitchens, http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/04/beware-of-the-green-rapture-it-may-not-happen-.html
Removed 16/04/2014
"A few years back, we were going to be killed by global cooling , overpopulation, pesticide residues, West Nile virus, bird flu, Y2K, cellphone radiation, mad cow disease, etc. Now it's global warming. Reporters don't make these scares up. The recent hype about global warming comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Most of its members are serious scientists. But reporters don't realize that those scientists, like bird flu specialists, have every incentive to hype the risk. If their computer models (which so far have been wrong) predict disaster, they get attention and money. If they say, "I'm not sure," they get nothing."
John Stossel, http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2014/04/16/earth-daze-n1824928/page/full
Removed 21/04/2014
"We live in a world where one in six deaths are caused by easily curable infectious diseases; one in eight deaths stem from air pollution, mostly from cooking indoors with dung and twigs; and billions of people live in abject poverty, with no electricity and little food. We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world’s greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree."
Bjorn Lomborg, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bj-rn-lomborg-says-that-the-un-climate-panel-s-latest-report-tells-a-story-that-politicians-would-prefer-to-ignore
Removed 26/05/2014
"Intolerant belief is clawing back the ground it lost in the age of enlightenment, but the people doing it this time around are actually crusading fundamentalists pretending to be scientists. They’re nothing more than a new age sect of clerics who’ve allowed their messianic beliefs to swamp their judgement to the point where they’ve essentially traduced a branch of science, but for the best of all possible intentions. They are, after all, on a mission to save the very planet."
Pointman, https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/the-age-of-unenlightenment/
Removed 08/06/14
'Angry, condescending academics are nothing new. And ridding the world of them would not make it a better place. But the Academy had a culture — was a culture — in which pig-ignorant angry, condescending academics could be kept in check, either by squabbles with each other, or through institutions like peer-review or through criticism from more reasonable academics. Either as cause or effect, academe seems no longer able to foster debate, especially on the issue of climate change.'
Ben Pile, http://www.climate-resistance.org/2014/06/why-do-environmentalists-hate-liberty.html
Removed 12/08/14
"But the one truly bonkers thing to do would be to go unilaterally into a policy of subsidising the rich to install technologies that drive up the cost of energy, desecrate the countryside, kill golden eagles, clear-cut swamp forests in North Carolina, turn grain into motor fuel, so driving up the price of food and killing people, and prevent poor people in Africa getting loans to build coal-fired, cheap power stations instead of inhaling smoke from wood fires cut from virgin forests."
Matt Ridley http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9176121/armageddon-averted/
Removed 03/09/14
"I dislike appeals to authority on principle, but appeals to authority in climate science are especially absurd, given that the authorities are so laughably unauthoritative."
Mark Steyn, http://www.steynonline.com/6547/when-science-is-settled-by-government
'“things are, in fact, more complicated than we thought.”
'The global warming hypothesis was a godsend to the New Left. It provided a means of attacking industry and capitalism through the one great essential to modern life, energy. Anyone who questioned the dogma was subject to insults and threats, including the appalling crudity and tastelessness of being likened to the holocaust deniers.' John Brignell, 2008
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/zealots.htm
Removed 10/10/2015
'A vociferous belief in the danger of climate change may be a marker for a shallow thinker. It doesn't take a lot of research to realize that the "we are doomed by climate change" story is full of holes.'
Norman Rogers,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/global_warming_making_the_ruling_class_into_the_crackpot_class.html
Removed c. 5/11/2015
'Now, when will the BBC or the Met Office ever admit that the mainstream science [ ... ] shows just how very little anthropogenic warming we should expect this century?
'When I ask them what they want, a typical response is “radical transformation of the economy” to reduce income inequality, racism and sexism and, of course, to end climate change. Government will command these changes to achieve this transformation. These are young Stalinists who are willing to suspend almost every basic freedom and civil liberty for “the greater good.'
Stephen Moore, http://patriotpost.us/opinion/39101
Removed 10/12/15
'There’s something Eric Hoffer said: “Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.” There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses. It doesn’t matter what the crisis is. A hundred years ago it was eugenics. At the time of the first Earth Day a generation ago, the big scare was global cooling, a big ice age. They go from one to the other. It meets their psychological needs and gives them a reason for exercising their power.'
Thomas Sowell, http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/29/intellectuals-cannot-operate-at-room-temperature/#undefined
Removed 31/12/2015
'Millions die worldwide every year because they do not have cheap, clean, continuous, low-tech, coal-fired electricity, to replace the wood, grass and animal dung fires they must use to cook their food and heat their homes. Given the growing and flagrant discrepancies between prediction and observation that we have revealed here for the first time, the moral case for defunding the profiteers of climate doom and redeploying the money to give coal-fired light and heat to the world's poorest people is overwhelming.
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0216/tenquestions.htm
Removed 17/03/2016
"What I really should have said is that these [alarmist climate scientists] are a bunch of lying, cheating, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, third-rate tosspots who don’t even deserve the name “scientists” because what they practise isn’t really science but data-fiddling, cherry-picking, grant-troughing, activism-driven propaganda."
Removed 01/04/2016
'The Climate activist appeal to reason has failed – their evidence sucks, their models don’t work, public interest is plummeting, and their habit of calling people names, when their shoddy science is questioned, is starting to wear thin. The obvious, if audacious solution – roll back the clock, and restore the Dark Age of unquestioning obedience to arbitrary authority.'
Eric Worral, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/31/the-new-dark-age-exploiting-faith-to-coerce-climate-obedience/
Removed: 12/04/2016
'After a couple of decades in the fight, we’ve hung on in through the bad old days and are not just still in it, but are finally gaining substantial ground. We’ve got some real rather than cardboard heroes in our ranks. Pick a reputation you like or a person; Lindzen, Moore, Steyn, Vahrenholt, Ridley, Soon, Montford, Curry, Bellamy, Nova, Dyson, Watts, Bengtsson and Verdier, to name but a few.'
Pointman, https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/standing-alone-on-the-bridge/
Removed 08 May 2016
'I must say, I find the green obsession with frightening the kids with apocalyptic fairy tales, dressed up as predictions, a little disturbing. '
Eric Worrall http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/20/claim-you-need-science-fiction-to-make-sense-of-climate-change/
Removed 20 Sep 2016
So if the models are so hopelessly riddled with errors and uncertainty that an anthropogenic radiative forcing signal cannot be distinguished from noise, or if the total magnitude of the warming attributed to humans is one-tenth to one-hundredth of the error or uncertainty ranges, why are those who dare question the degree to which humans affect the Earth’s climate branded as “deniers” of science?
Kenneth Richard, http://notrickszone.com/2017/03/13/uncertainties-errors-in-radiative-forcing-estimates-10-100-times-larger-than-entire-radiative-effect-of-increasing-co2/
Removed 24/03/2017
'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'
Freeman Dyson,
in Foreword to http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf
'Finally, it is essential that intellectual integrity be restored to the scientific profession. Too much money has been devoted to funding global warming scientists, who have depended for their livelihood on a high level of public and political anxiety about global warming, and have hence tended to suppress the evidence against the popular hysteria. .... Enlightenment standards of scientific integrity have been subverted by government cash and media hysteria. For the sake of all our futures this must never be allowed to happen again.'
Martin Hutchinson, http://www.tbwns.com/2015/07/20/the-bears-lair-global-warming-hysteria-one-huge-ghastly-mistake/
Removed 29/12/2017
'Kirstein also believes that climate scientists are irresponsibly using climate science to spread fear and panic among the population, and says that Potsdam Institute Director Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber “ought to be happy he does not reside in Switzerland” because there falsely spreading fear among the public is punishable with up to 3 years in prison.'
http://notrickszone.com/2017/12/29/high-profile-german-climatologist-blasts-global-warming-as-politicogenic-clever-propaganda/
Removed 07 Mar 2018
'First, I asked Stephen Belcher, the head of the Met Office Hadley Centre, whether the recent extended winter was related to global warming. Shaking his famous “ghost stick”, and fingering his trademark necklace of sharks’ teeth and mammoth bones, the loin-clothed Belcher blew smoke into a conch, and replied,
“Here come de heap big warmy. Bigtime warmy warmy. Is big big hot. Plenty big warm burny hot. Hot! Hot hot! But now not hot. Not hot now. De hot come go, come go. Now Is Coldy Coldy. Is ice. Hot den cold. Frreeeezy ice til hot again. Den de rain. It faaaalllll. Make pasty.”'
http://www.xdtalk.com/threads/a-brit-writers-wry-take-on-climate-change.275343/
Removed 20/3/2018
'Ladies and gentlemen, we call time on a 50-year-old scam, in which a small number of corrupt and politicized scientists, paid for by scientifically-illiterate governments panicked by questionable lobby-groups funded by dubious billionaires and foreign governments intent on doing down the West, and egged on by the inept and increasingly totalitarian news media, have conspired to perpetrate a single falsehood: that the science was settled.
'The IPCC; Never Has So Much Been Made Out of So Little by So Many at So Great A Cost'
Tim Ball, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/the-ipcc-never-has-so-much-been-made-out-of-so-little-by-so-many-at-so-great-a-cost/
Removed 26/07/2018
'The mostly non-scientist proponents of climate hysteria realize that distant forecasts of remote problems by inadequate models are unlikely to motivate people to shut down modern industrial society. They, therefore, attempt to claim that we are seeing the problems right now. Of course, the warming that has occurred over the past 200 years or so, has been too small to have been a major factor. However, objective reality matters little when it comes to propaganda – where repetition can effectively counter reality.'
Richard Lindzen, 2018: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/18/a-conversation-with-prof-richard-lindzen/
Removed 26/09/2018
'...the strongest undercurrent in the great global-warming crusade is, and has always been, outrageous, hyperbolic and unhinged doom-saturated scare mongering of the millenarian kind. The most rabid in the eco fringe are fear merchants ...Environmentalists of the most desperate kind do not play the fear “card.” Their whole deck is fear. They savour catastrophe as a kitten laps milk...'
Rex Murphy, 2018
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-justin-trudeau-and-the-climate-alarmists-are-the-fear-mongers
Removed 16/10/2018
'Climate fearmongers, you've become some of the most dishonest as well as useless people in the Earth's history.' Luboš Motl, 2018
Removed 13/2/2019
'Children are encouraged to express what they feel when it comes to understand the world around them. For example; climate change feels bad because humans are destroying the planet. Capitalism feels bad because we are exploiting the poor. Masculinity feels bad because males oppress women. Environmentalism feels good because we are saving the planet. Socialism feels great because we take care of the poor in society. Feminism feels wonderful because girls are empowered against male oppression. The method of teaching students to “feel” (i.e. perception from senses) instead of to “think” (i.e. conception from judgement) is the problem with education. It is the reason why Johnny can’t think. '
S G Geah, 2019 https://medium.com/@s.g.cheah/civility-on-the-decline-a-crisis-in-free-speech-and-violence-d104e6939757
Removed 30/3/2019
'I have hundreds more of these predictions on file, but this is enough to get the point across. Climate alarmists, and alarmists in general, are incompetent, dishonest hacks – who change their story every time the wind shifts.' Tony Heller, 2019.
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/02/fifty-years-of-failed-apocalyptic-forecasts/
Removed 17/4/2919
'If the documentary is truly deceptive, then its producers have some explaining to do. To push a political agenda in a documentary trusted by parents, students, teachers and kids to be accurate would be alarming — but in the age of editing, perhaps nothing is as it seems.' from an article reporting on the recent Attenborough/WWF climate alarmism collaboration.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/zoologist-sets-record-straight-netflix-tells-kids-climate-change-killing-walruses/
Removed 23/5/2019
'The environmentalism of my daughter’s preschool is a force-fed potpourri of myth, superstition, and ritual that has much in common with the least reputable varieties of religious Fundamentalism.'
Steven Landsberg, quoted in https://www.aei.org/publication/why-naive-environmentalism-is-like-religious-fundamentalism/
Removed 07/04/2020
"Every year climate science seems to get less sure until I want to shout 'Just vanish back into obscurity until you've got a handle on this mess! Go on, go to your room and don't come out till your predictions last longer than it takes the ink to dry on them.' "
Removed 10/07/2020
'According to Wrightstone, we should be communicating to young people that life is better than it’s ever been before. Earth is thriving, prospering, greening and benefiting from that growth. We have longer life expectancies; our food production is outpacing population growth. Air is getting cleaner. Our water is cleaner. Droughts and fires are in decline. Humanity and the earth are thriving and prospering which is in contrast to what we are being told and we just don’t see it. There’s an unrelenting barrage day after day of incorrect information that fits political ideologies and narratives, but it just isn’t correct science.'
https://www.villagenews.com/story/2019/09/26/national/another-point-of-view-is-global-warming-worth-the-anxiety-on-our-young-people/57690.html
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/science_in_an_age_of_fear.html#ixzz6pqEYImu4
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Candidate quotes
By perpetuating bogus claims of a world ending in 12 years, the Chicken Littles are doing far more harm than blinding children to scientific evidence that many species, from polar bears to Adelie penguins, are thriving. Our children miss the “important lesson” that a “climate crisis” is only a theory supported by scary narratives, not facts. So how do we protect our children from Chicken Littles who seek to enroll vulnerable minds into their doomsday cults? How do we motivate our children to be good critical thinkers, and not blind group thinkers mesmerized by fear and ‘end of the earth’ scenarios?
Jim Steele, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/12/chicken-littles-vs-adelie-penguins/
'The number of shattered lives caused by radical-green activism rivals the death tolls of the great killers of the 20th Century – Stalin, Hitler and Mao – radical greens advocate similar extreme-left totalitarian policies and are indifferent to their resulting environmental damage and human suffering… … and if unchecked, radical environmentalism will cost us our freedom.'
Allan MacRae, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/04/the-cost-to-society-of-radical-environmentalism/
'The climate change alarm movement is driven by extremist socialists. Ultra-socialist Saikat Chakrabarti, who prepared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal exposed the underbelly of climate change alarmism when he confessed that “The Green New Deal wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. We think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing”. The CO2 panic is a socialist harangue dressed in a veil of bad science. '
Sanjeev Sabhlok, Times of India, 2019
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-invisible/maximise-the-current-generations-wealth-and-review-any-co2-issues-in-2050/
'For the past three decades, the climate policy ‘cart’ has been way out in front of the scientific ‘horse’. The 1992 Climate Change treaty was signed by 190 countries before the balance of scientific evidence suggested even a discernible observed human influence on global climate. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was implemented before we had any confidence that most of the recent warming was caused by humans. There has been tremendous political pressure on the scientists to present findings that would support these treaties, which has resulted in a drive to manufacture a scientific consensus on the dangers of manmade climate change.'
Judith Curry, https://judithcurry.com/2019/12/02/madrid/
'There’s definitely no better way of dispelling global warming fears than by turning them into fuel for rabid climate change politics. You know, the same ones that routinely claim there’s little more than a decade left for humanity. Yeah, get your kid wrapped up in that and then scratch your head wondering why they’re still terrified. Hey, your kids might be screwed, but you did your part in saving our planet. That should be consolation enough as Child Protection Services pulls into your driveway.'
Gabriel Hays, 2019
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2019/07/29/eco-anxiety-vogue-advises-parents-kids-climate-change
Ralph B Alexander, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Under-Attack-Age-Unreason/dp/1628943637
'If only more persons understood how poorly climate models simulated global mean surface temperatures—the primary metric of human-induced climate change—the human-induced global warming scare might just disappear into the past like the Y2K scare. Then again, the global warming/climate change scare has nothing to do with science; it is simply global politics at its worst, masquerading as science.'
Bob Tisdale, 2019. Backs it up here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/01/global-mean-surface-temperature-early-20th-century-warming-period-models-versus-models-models-versus-data/
'When you’ve been covering the climate/environment/energy beat for as long as I have, every day is Groundhog Day. Every day it’s the same bunch of troughers, spivs, second-raters, crooks, liars, half-wits, chancers, bottom-feeders and eco-fascists churning out the same old propaganda…'
James Delingpole, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/07/delingpole-the-shocking-true-story-of-how-global-warming-became-the-biggest-fakenews-scare-of-all-time-pt-2/
'Computer modelling of the earth's climate is a valid activity carried out in private between consenting adults who understand its considerable limitations. Using it to scare the human race into believing they or their children are in danger of drowning as a result of their own modern lifestyles is criminal. Ironically, the climate science industry is largely populated by individuals who are in it precisely in order to fund their own modern lifestyles.'
esmiff, in a comment here: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2016/5/13/how-low-can-ecs-go.html
'Yet today’s computer modelers claim they can model the climate – which involves far more variables than the economy or stock market – and do so decades or even a century into the future. They then tell governments to make trillion-dollar policy decisions that will impact every aspect of our lives, based on the outputs of their models. Incredibly, the United Nations and governments around the world are complying with this demand. We are crazy to continue letting them get away with it.'
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Lehr__Harris_-_Mathematical_modeling_illusions_(1).pdf
'Ever notice how actual climate results are never part of the claimed benefits of green energy? Measures of success are always carbon emissions reduced, houses powered, kilowatts generated, and carbon credits purchased. No one ever talks about actual reductions in temperature or about droughts, floods, or hurricanes to be averted by using renewable energy. Adoption of green policies is as hollow as building a hospital and never curing a patient or raising an army and never taking a hill.'
Steve Goreham
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/22/apple-and-google-pour-billions-down-a-green-drain/
'The climate change debate is being dominated not by scientists, but by pseudo-scientist ideology-driven zealots. They approach it backward, with a conclusion firmly in mind. Whatever they can contort into supporting the hypothesis, they keep. All else they often reject or downplay. The facts are made submissive to the conclusion.'
Jeremiah Jacques
http://www.mywebtimes.com/opinion/columnists/soapbox-global-warming-the-book-is-not-closed/article_5e0e0806-2536-5e8d-9e72-121f20690d40.html
'Finally, it is essential that intellectual integrity be restored to the scientific profession. Too much money has been devoted to funding global warming scientists, who have depended for their livelihood on a high level of public and political anxiety about global warming, and have hence tended to suppress the evidence against the popular hysteria. .... Enlightenment standards of scientific integrity have been subverted by government cash and media hysteria. For the sake of all our futures this must never be allowed to happen again.'
Martin Hutchinson, http://www.tbwns.com/2015/07/20/the-bears-lair-global-warming-hysteria-one-huge-ghastly-mistake/
"The statistical methods used in the paper are so bad as to merit use in a class on how not to do applied statistics.
"Personally I’ve always wondered if there is a correspondence between promotion of green ideas, and poor life choices made by far too many of our children – if you tell a child they have no future, that the world is about to be destroyed, that its all their parent’s fault, and that there is nothing they can do about it, don’t expect them to be enthusiastic about doing their homework."
Eric Worrall, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/15/a-climate-of-despair-climategate-had-more-effect-than-we-realize/
"The origins of warmism lie in a cocktail of ideas which includes anti-industrial nature worship, post-colonial guilt, a post-Enlightenment belief in scientists as a new priesthood of the truth, a hatred of population growth, a revulsion against the widespread increase in wealth and a belief in world government."
Charles Moore
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/10748667/The-game-is-up-for-climate-change-believers.html
"Thanks to climate change scams, swine flu and a whole host of own-goals, the status of the white-coated prima donnas and narcissists has never been lower in the public esteem. It was Rush Limbaugh, of all unlikely candidates, who at the height of the Climategate exposé made the thoughtful point that more than climate was at stake: the credibility of the entire scientific community was collapsing. He was right. After a period of priest-like authority, the pointy-heads in lab coats have re-assumed the role of mad cranks they enjoyed from the days of Frankenstein to boys’ comics in the 1950s."
Gerald Warner http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100022443/government-scientific-advisers-who-needs-these-nuts-in-white-coats/
"If we get no warming for another year or too, then there will be no school students who have experienced global warming in their lifetime."
'Andy scrase' commenting here: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/3/5/a-despotism-over-the-mind.html
"We have normal people like me who realize that to be green is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. I do think clarity is important." Rich Koslovich
Hat-tip: http://antigreen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/i-have-found-another-million-green-jobs.html#links
Removed 04/03/13
"Secretary [of Education] Bennett makes, I think, an interesting analogy. He says that if you serve a child a rotten hamburger in
Ronald Reagan, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/022288a.htm
Removed 08/05/13
"The global warming scientific establishment is starting to look like the final days of the Soviet Union. On the surface it appears impregnable and the dissidents are a minor problem. But the huge soviet edifice quickly collapsed when people lost their fear of the system and the functionaries stopped following orders. There came a point when everyone decided to stop living a lie."
Norman Rogers, http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/is_roy_spencer_the_worlds_most_important_scientist.html
Removed 04/10/2013
"Reassuring people about environmental and resource scares is not easy. It is like reassuring a small child that night noises do not imply danger. You can investigate room after room with the child. But the fears reappear later, and are directed to places you did not investigate. Perhaps vague fears are an ineradicable part of our nature, so long as we lack solid knowledge of the actual conditions. But policymakers must try to rise above the childish and primitive thinking of these scares, and to gain the necessary knowledge, so as not to make costly and destructive decisions. "
Julian Simon, http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR18.txt
Removed 30/11/2013
"So here’s my own message to young people currently in their twenties:
Removed 03/04/2014
"I suspect that many people feel , as I do, that the climate zealots would be a lot more persuasive if they were a little more modest. It is precisely their angry, bullying, majoritarian intolerance which makes me suspect that they are rather nervous about their beliefs. Their recent utterly unscientific claims that typhoons, hurricanes and wet winters are evidence of general climate change are even more inclined to make me think they are more interested in shouting people down, and stirring the mob, than they are in argument. " "So here’s my own message to young people currently in their twenties:
Pay no attention to the doomsayers. Drama queen personality types will always be with us. It’s up to you to treat them like the broken records they are."
Donna Laframboise, http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/07/15/distressed-planet-1990-2013/
Removed 11/01/2014
In the light of all this, we have at least to
consider the possibility that the scientific establishment behind the global
warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the climate
problem – or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties
associated with the climate problem – in its effort to promote the cause.
Removed 28/02/2014
"Half-baked theories and utter twaddle, you embed these in a “climate model”,
While your “settled science” – that proud consensus – is a roll-call of the vain pretentious,
Your fellow travellers, who so richly gain, from coasting on this gravy train.
But when your friends are wrong – which is hardly new – you label it as “Peer Review”.
While your “settled science” – that proud consensus – is a roll-call of the vain pretentious,
Your fellow travellers, who so richly gain, from coasting on this gravy train.
But when your friends are wrong – which is hardly new – you label it as “Peer Review”.
Removed 18/03/2014
"... I have spent years investigating not only the skillfulness of climate models (none, outside a few months ahead) but also the myriad papers which purport to show the evils which await us when global warming finally strikes. These papers, if the authors were to go back and assiduously rework them, might reach the standard of horrible. As it is, they are garbage. Bandwagon, confirmation-bias confirming, intellectually bereft, gimme-a-grant garbage."
W M Briggs, http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=11812Removed 03/04/2014
Peter Hitchens, http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/04/beware-of-the-green-rapture-it-may-not-happen-.html
Removed 16/04/2014
"A few years back, we were going to be killed by global cooling , overpopulation, pesticide residues, West Nile virus, bird flu, Y2K, cellphone radiation, mad cow disease, etc. Now it's global warming. Reporters don't make these scares up. The recent hype about global warming comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Most of its members are serious scientists. But reporters don't realize that those scientists, like bird flu specialists, have every incentive to hype the risk. If their computer models (which so far have been wrong) predict disaster, they get attention and money. If they say, "I'm not sure," they get nothing."
John Stossel, http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2014/04/16/earth-daze-n1824928/page/full
Removed 21/04/2014
"We live in a world where one in six deaths are caused by easily curable infectious diseases; one in eight deaths stem from air pollution, mostly from cooking indoors with dung and twigs; and billions of people live in abject poverty, with no electricity and little food. We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world’s greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree."
Bjorn Lomborg, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bj-rn-lomborg-says-that-the-un-climate-panel-s-latest-report-tells-a-story-that-politicians-would-prefer-to-ignore
Removed 26/05/2014
"Intolerant belief is clawing back the ground it lost in the age of enlightenment, but the people doing it this time around are actually crusading fundamentalists pretending to be scientists. They’re nothing more than a new age sect of clerics who’ve allowed their messianic beliefs to swamp their judgement to the point where they’ve essentially traduced a branch of science, but for the best of all possible intentions. They are, after all, on a mission to save the very planet."
Pointman, https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/the-age-of-unenlightenment/
Removed 08/06/14
'Angry, condescending academics are nothing new. And ridding the world of them would not make it a better place. But the Academy had a culture — was a culture — in which pig-ignorant angry, condescending academics could be kept in check, either by squabbles with each other, or through institutions like peer-review or through criticism from more reasonable academics. Either as cause or effect, academe seems no longer able to foster debate, especially on the issue of climate change.'
Ben Pile, http://www.climate-resistance.org/2014/06/why-do-environmentalists-hate-liberty.html
Removed 12/08/14
"But the one truly bonkers thing to do would be to go unilaterally into a policy of subsidising the rich to install technologies that drive up the cost of energy, desecrate the countryside, kill golden eagles, clear-cut swamp forests in North Carolina, turn grain into motor fuel, so driving up the price of food and killing people, and prevent poor people in Africa getting loans to build coal-fired, cheap power stations instead of inhaling smoke from wood fires cut from virgin forests."
Matt Ridley http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9176121/armageddon-averted/
Removed 03/09/14
"I dislike appeals to authority on principle, but appeals to authority in climate science are especially absurd, given that the authorities are so laughably unauthoritative."
Mark Steyn, http://www.steynonline.com/6547/when-science-is-settled-by-government
Removed 02/10/14
'“things are, in fact, more complicated than we thought.”
If you’re a climate scientist, remember this well. It is your “get-out” clause.'
'The global warming hypothesis was a godsend to the New Left. It provided a means of attacking industry and capitalism through the one great essential to modern life, energy. Anyone who questioned the dogma was subject to insults and threats, including the appalling crudity and tastelessness of being likened to the holocaust deniers.' John Brignell, 2008
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/zealots.htm
Removed 10/10/2015
'A vociferous belief in the danger of climate change may be a marker for a shallow thinker. It doesn't take a lot of research to realize that the "we are doomed by climate change" story is full of holes.'
Norman Rogers,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/global_warming_making_the_ruling_class_into_the_crackpot_class.html
Removed c. 5/11/2015
And when will the nations of the Earth realize they have been fooled by a small clique of well-placed, extravagantly-funded, powerfully-protected fraudsters surrounded by a host of useful idiots?'
Viscount Monckton, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/16/memo-to-paris-dont-base-policy-on-overblown-prediction/
Removed 26/11/2015
Removed 26/11/2015
'When I ask them what they want, a typical response is “radical transformation of the economy” to reduce income inequality, racism and sexism and, of course, to end climate change. Government will command these changes to achieve this transformation. These are young Stalinists who are willing to suspend almost every basic freedom and civil liberty for “the greater good.'
Stephen Moore, http://patriotpost.us/opinion/39101
Removed 10/12/15
'There’s something Eric Hoffer said: “Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.” There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses. It doesn’t matter what the crisis is. A hundred years ago it was eugenics. At the time of the first Earth Day a generation ago, the big scare was global cooling, a big ice age. They go from one to the other. It meets their psychological needs and gives them a reason for exercising their power.'
Thomas Sowell, http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/29/intellectuals-cannot-operate-at-room-temperature/#undefined
Removed 31/12/2015
'I have come from the high-level musings of one observer of modern climate scientists, through to the unpleasant ground-truth of what has been undertaken in their name. The Delingpole Conjectures do seem worthy of further investigation.' JS
Removed 07/03/2016
'Millions die worldwide every year because they do not have cheap, clean, continuous, low-tech, coal-fired electricity, to replace the wood, grass and animal dung fires they must use to cook their food and heat their homes. Given the growing and flagrant discrepancies between prediction and observation that we have revealed here for the first time, the moral case for defunding the profiteers of climate doom and redeploying the money to give coal-fired light and heat to the world's poorest people is overwhelming.
We are killing millions of parents and children today, based on a scientifically baseless goal of saving thousands who are not at risk "the day after tomorrow." '
Monckton, Soon, and Legates. 2016.
Removed 17/03/2016
"What I really should have said is that these [alarmist climate scientists] are a bunch of lying, cheating, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, third-rate tosspots who don’t even deserve the name “scientists” because what they practise isn’t really science but data-fiddling, cherry-picking, grant-troughing, activism-driven propaganda."
James Delingpole, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/31/global-warming-is-not-the-problem-global-governance-is/
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Removed: can't remember when
Thus,
every IPCC report can be compared to a garbage bin in a public
square: delicious leftovers from good restaurants are thrown together
with rotten fruits and sprinkled liberally with bird feces. One might
take a look at the bin to see what sort of food is served in a nearby
restaurant, but eating from the trash is not advisable. Some
distinguished scientists contributed to the IPCC reports, especially
the WGI, but their work lost all value when it was mixed with
alarmist viewpoints.
Ari Halperin, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/16/the-ipcc-has-been-deceiving-the-public-about-the-carbon-cycle-from-the-start/Removed 01/04/2016
'The Climate activist appeal to reason has failed – their evidence sucks, their models don’t work, public interest is plummeting, and their habit of calling people names, when their shoddy science is questioned, is starting to wear thin. The obvious, if audacious solution – roll back the clock, and restore the Dark Age of unquestioning obedience to arbitrary authority.'
Eric Worral, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/31/the-new-dark-age-exploiting-faith-to-coerce-climate-obedience/
Removed: 12/04/2016
'After a couple of decades in the fight, we’ve hung on in through the bad old days and are not just still in it, but are finally gaining substantial ground. We’ve got some real rather than cardboard heroes in our ranks. Pick a reputation you like or a person; Lindzen, Moore, Steyn, Vahrenholt, Ridley, Soon, Montford, Curry, Bellamy, Nova, Dyson, Watts, Bengtsson and Verdier, to name but a few.'
Pointman, https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/standing-alone-on-the-bridge/
Removed 08 May 2016
'I must say, I find the green obsession with frightening the kids with apocalyptic fairy tales, dressed up as predictions, a little disturbing. '
Eric Worrall http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/20/claim-you-need-science-fiction-to-make-sense-of-climate-change/
Removed 20 Sep 2016
Why is there so much preoccupation with atmospheric CO2 concentrations and reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions when it is well documented in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that the CO2 contribution to the overall greenhouse effect is so weak that it can be easily supplanted by small changes in clouds and water vapor, or natural climate-changing constituents?
http://notrickszone.com/2016/09/19/new-paper-documents-imperceptible-co2-influence-on-the-greenhouse-effect-since-1992/
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"What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison. "
Richard Lindzen, 2008 http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/quotes.html
Removed 10/01/2017
In
my opinion this entire sorry episode goes straight to the heart of
the difference between the way alarmists like Williamson see the
world, and the way normal people view the world. Alarmists seem to
want their models, theories and opinions to be accepted as
established fact. But the reality is their shaky theories are full of
poorly supported conjecture and extrapolation.
Eric
Worrall on WUWT, quoted by Dellers who has criticised Williamson's
facile alarmism:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/09/delingpole-how-i-totally-crushed-the-ocean-acidification-alarmist-loons/
The best part about all of this is that in the time since President Trump's election the voices of climate alarm have reached entirely new levels of hysteria. It's just that it seems that they aren't scaring anybody any more.
http://manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2017/2/4/climate-alarmism-doesnt-seem-to-be-working-any-more
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Kenneth Richard, http://notrickszone.com/2017/03/13/uncertainties-errors-in-radiative-forcing-estimates-10-100-times-larger-than-entire-radiative-effect-of-increasing-co2/
Removed 24/03/2017
'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'
Freeman Dyson,
in Foreword to http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf
Removed 14/11/2017
'Finally, it is essential that intellectual integrity be restored to the scientific profession. Too much money has been devoted to funding global warming scientists, who have depended for their livelihood on a high level of public and political anxiety about global warming, and have hence tended to suppress the evidence against the popular hysteria. .... Enlightenment standards of scientific integrity have been subverted by government cash and media hysteria. For the sake of all our futures this must never be allowed to happen again.'
Martin Hutchinson, http://www.tbwns.com/2015/07/20/the-bears-lair-global-warming-hysteria-one-huge-ghastly-mistake/
Removed 29/12/2017
'Kirstein also believes that climate scientists are irresponsibly using climate science to spread fear and panic among the population, and says that Potsdam Institute Director Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber “ought to be happy he does not reside in Switzerland” because there falsely spreading fear among the public is punishable with up to 3 years in prison.'
http://notrickszone.com/2017/12/29/high-profile-german-climatologist-blasts-global-warming-as-politicogenic-clever-propaganda/
Removed 07 Mar 2018
'First, I asked Stephen Belcher, the head of the Met Office Hadley Centre, whether the recent extended winter was related to global warming. Shaking his famous “ghost stick”, and fingering his trademark necklace of sharks’ teeth and mammoth bones, the loin-clothed Belcher blew smoke into a conch, and replied,
“Here come de heap big warmy. Bigtime warmy warmy. Is big big hot. Plenty big warm burny hot. Hot! Hot hot! But now not hot. Not hot now. De hot come go, come go. Now Is Coldy Coldy. Is ice. Hot den cold. Frreeeezy ice til hot again. Den de rain. It faaaalllll. Make pasty.”'
http://www.xdtalk.com/threads/a-brit-writers-wry-take-on-climate-change.275343/
Removed 20/3/2018
'Ladies and gentlemen, we call time on a 50-year-old scam, in which a small number of corrupt and politicized scientists, paid for by scientifically-illiterate governments panicked by questionable lobby-groups funded by dubious billionaires and foreign governments intent on doing down the West, and egged on by the inept and increasingly totalitarian news media, have conspired to perpetrate a single falsehood: that the science was settled.
Well, it wasn’t.'
Lord Monckton, https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2018/03/the-elementary-error-of-physics-that-caused-the-global-warming-scare/
Removed 11/06/2018
'The IPCC; Never Has So Much Been Made Out of So Little by So Many at So Great A Cost'
Tim Ball, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/the-ipcc-never-has-so-much-been-made-out-of-so-little-by-so-many-at-so-great-a-cost/
Removed 26/07/2018
'The mostly non-scientist proponents of climate hysteria realize that distant forecasts of remote problems by inadequate models are unlikely to motivate people to shut down modern industrial society. They, therefore, attempt to claim that we are seeing the problems right now. Of course, the warming that has occurred over the past 200 years or so, has been too small to have been a major factor. However, objective reality matters little when it comes to propaganda – where repetition can effectively counter reality.'
Richard Lindzen, 2018: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/18/a-conversation-with-prof-richard-lindzen/
Removed 26/09/2018
'...the strongest undercurrent in the great global-warming crusade is, and has always been, outrageous, hyperbolic and unhinged doom-saturated scare mongering of the millenarian kind. The most rabid in the eco fringe are fear merchants ...Environmentalists of the most desperate kind do not play the fear “card.” Their whole deck is fear. They savour catastrophe as a kitten laps milk...'
Rex Murphy, 2018
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-justin-trudeau-and-the-climate-alarmists-are-the-fear-mongers
Removed 16/10/2018
'Climate fearmongers, you've become some of the most dishonest as well as useless people in the Earth's history.' Luboš Motl, 2018
https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/10/no-one-listens-to-ipcc-fearmongering.html
Removed 02/12/2018
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/09/how-german-schools-take-climate-change-seriously/#comment-1540095Removed 02/12/2018
'A
Ph.D in education is "a valid marker" of left wing ideology
in education these days.
Anyone wishing to educate children rather than indoctrinate them
and kibosh their chances in life should steer clear of any state
validated educational qualification as the left has a
stranglehold on content and delivery.'
'My wife however has seen it all before. She grew up in the Soviet Union, and recoils from the hideous memory of endless political square-bashing on school playgrounds and carnivals, songs and long speeches glorifying the socialist revolution. The relentless aggression and mind-numbing tedium with which their teachers preached and prated a party line which they all grew up to discover was a complete falsehood. Now a similar disillusionment lies in wait for another generation of children.'
A parent referring to climate brainwashing in schools. Phil Salmon in Belgium:
A parent referring to climate brainwashing in schools. Phil Salmon in Belgium:
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'Children are encouraged to express what they feel when it comes to understand the world around them. For example; climate change feels bad because humans are destroying the planet. Capitalism feels bad because we are exploiting the poor. Masculinity feels bad because males oppress women. Environmentalism feels good because we are saving the planet. Socialism feels great because we take care of the poor in society. Feminism feels wonderful because girls are empowered against male oppression. The method of teaching students to “feel” (i.e. perception from senses) instead of to “think” (i.e. conception from judgement) is the problem with education. It is the reason why Johnny can’t think. '
S G Geah, 2019 https://medium.com/@s.g.cheah/civility-on-the-decline-a-crisis-in-free-speech-and-violence-d104e6939757
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'I have hundreds more of these predictions on file, but this is enough to get the point across. Climate alarmists, and alarmists in general, are incompetent, dishonest hacks – who change their story every time the wind shifts.' Tony Heller, 2019.
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/02/fifty-years-of-failed-apocalyptic-forecasts/
Removed 17/4/2919
'If the documentary is truly deceptive, then its producers have some explaining to do. To push a political agenda in a documentary trusted by parents, students, teachers and kids to be accurate would be alarming — but in the age of editing, perhaps nothing is as it seems.' from an article reporting on the recent Attenborough/WWF climate alarmism collaboration.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/zoologist-sets-record-straight-netflix-tells-kids-climate-change-killing-walruses/
Removed 23/5/2019
'The environmentalism of my daughter’s preschool is a force-fed potpourri of myth, superstition, and ritual that has much in common with the least reputable varieties of religious Fundamentalism.'
Steven Landsberg, quoted in https://www.aei.org/publication/why-naive-environmentalism-is-like-religious-fundamentalism/
Removed 5/7/2019
'Children don’t choose to advocate for political agendas. That choice is made for them. Sometimes those decisions are made by their parents. Other times it’s made by a totalitarian machine lubricated by hundreds of thousands in grant money stolen from their parents in order to brainwash their children.
Removed 29/09/2019'Children don’t choose to advocate for political agendas. That choice is made for them. Sometimes those decisions are made by their parents. Other times it’s made by a totalitarian machine lubricated by hundreds of thousands in grant money stolen from their parents in order to brainwash their children.
Greta, depressed, terrified, angry, and traumatized, is the intended outcome of that machine. A child soldier.'
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‘Pundits like Al Gore, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye “the Science Guy” then further exaggerate what is reported. Next, public school teachers repeat all of the misinformation to their students, relying on textbooks written by poorly informed authors, many with only a superficial knowledge of science. Alarmist theories are presented as fact. Is it any wonder our young people grow up believing humans are destroying the Earth?’
Roy Spencer, ‘Global Warming Scepticism for Busy People’, 2018.
'We owe it to the world’s children to tell them the truth about global warming — and related #fakenews scares like ‘ocean acidification’ and mass species extinction. Too many of them have been brainwashed into thinking they have no future; they are resentful and pessimistic where they should be positive and informed.'
James Delingpole, https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/01/delingpole-how-president-trump-can-out-green-the-prince-of-wales/
Removed 18/10/2019
Greta Thunberg is no messenger of a beautiful future. She is a messenger of downfall, ruination, destruction, insanity, and future suffering and death of millions if a new monstrous totalitarian system will be introduced in her name. We don't even have a name for that totalitarianism yet.
Václav Vlk Sr
https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/10/i-am-scared-of-innocent-children.html
Removed 11/11/2019
'There is no climate crisis, but there is a crisis of climate superstition, fraud, incompetence, and censorship. And it is being used to terrify children and threaten the future of western civilization.'
Tony Heller, https://realclimatescience.com/2019/11/there-is-no-climate-crisis/Removed 11/11/2019
'There is no climate crisis, but there is a crisis of climate superstition, fraud, incompetence, and censorship. And it is being used to terrify children and threaten the future of western civilization.'
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"Every year climate science seems to get less sure until I want to shout 'Just vanish back into obscurity until you've got a handle on this mess! Go on, go to your room and don't come out till your predictions last longer than it takes the ink to dry on them.' "
Jun 29, 2013 
TinyCO2
http://www.bishop-hill.net/discussion/post/2148902?currentPage=3TinyCO2 Removed 10/07/2020
'According to Wrightstone, we should be communicating to young people that life is better than it’s ever been before. Earth is thriving, prospering, greening and benefiting from that growth. We have longer life expectancies; our food production is outpacing population growth. Air is getting cleaner. Our water is cleaner. Droughts and fires are in decline. Humanity and the earth are thriving and prospering which is in contrast to what we are being told and we just don’t see it. There’s an unrelenting barrage day after day of incorrect information that fits political ideologies and narratives, but it just isn’t correct science.'
https://www.villagenews.com/story/2019/09/26/national/another-point-of-view-is-global-warming-worth-the-anxiety-on-our-young-people/57690.html
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[Recent]... research by physicists William Happer and Willem van Wijngaarden has determined that the current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor are “saturated.” In radiation physics that means adding more CO2 or water molecules will bring modest warming that will benefit plant growth, and thus all life on Earth. More CO2 and H2O will not cause dangerous warming.
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Feed kids a constant diet of climate anxiety; some commit suicide, some turn to radical activism, some choose to become vegans or withdraw from life or vow to never bring children of their own into what they believe will be a ruined world.
The solution is obvious. Stop frightening the children.
Eric Worrall, December 2020 (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/27/la-times-children-literally-organizing-out-of-climate-anxiety/)
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Unfortunately, some misuse science. Some of their intentions, are far from benevolent. They see science as a mechanism for political power and control. There is great danger from those who would use science for political control over us.
How do they do this? They instill, and then continuously magnify, fear. Fear is the most effective instrument of totalitarian control.
Chet Richards, physicist, https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/science_in_an_age_of_fear.htmlRead more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/science_in_an_age_of_fear.html#ixzz6pqEYImu4
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Candidate quotes
'The typical sequence of events is seen to be that changes
in the global atmospheric CO2 follow changes in global
surface air temperature, which again follow changes in
global ocean surface temperatures. Thus, changes in
global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 9.5–10 months
behind changes in global air surface temperature, and
11–12 months behind changes in global sea surface
temperature.'
Prof Ole Humlum, Climate4U - December 2020, page 44
By perpetuating bogus claims of a world ending in 12 years, the Chicken Littles are doing far more harm than blinding children to scientific evidence that many species, from polar bears to Adelie penguins, are thriving. Our children miss the “important lesson” that a “climate crisis” is only a theory supported by scary narratives, not facts. So how do we protect our children from Chicken Littles who seek to enroll vulnerable minds into their doomsday cults? How do we motivate our children to be good critical thinkers, and not blind group thinkers mesmerized by fear and ‘end of the earth’ scenarios?
Jim Steele, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/12/chicken-littles-vs-adelie-penguins/
Allan MacRae, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/04/the-cost-to-society-of-radical-environmentalism/
'The climate change alarm movement is driven by extremist socialists. Ultra-socialist Saikat Chakrabarti, who prepared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal exposed the underbelly of climate change alarmism when he confessed that “The Green New Deal wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. We think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing”. The CO2 panic is a socialist harangue dressed in a veil of bad science. '
Sanjeev Sabhlok, Times of India, 2019
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-invisible/maximise-the-current-generations-wealth-and-review-any-co2-issues-in-2050/
'For the past three decades, the climate policy ‘cart’ has been way out in front of the scientific ‘horse’. The 1992 Climate Change treaty was signed by 190 countries before the balance of scientific evidence suggested even a discernible observed human influence on global climate. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was implemented before we had any confidence that most of the recent warming was caused by humans. There has been tremendous political pressure on the scientists to present findings that would support these treaties, which has resulted in a drive to manufacture a scientific consensus on the dangers of manmade climate change.'
Judith Curry, https://judithcurry.com/2019/12/02/madrid/
'There’s definitely no better way of dispelling global warming fears than by turning them into fuel for rabid climate change politics. You know, the same ones that routinely claim there’s little more than a decade left for humanity. Yeah, get your kid wrapped up in that and then scratch your head wondering why they’re still terrified. Hey, your kids might be screwed, but you did your part in saving our planet. That should be consolation enough as Child Protection Services pulls into your driveway.'
Gabriel Hays, 2019
'Taking it a step further: suggesting that these powerful natural cycles stopped driving climate some 100 years ago and claiming a few extra molecules of CO2 have since taken over the climate driver’s seat is pathetic nonsense, one that could only be sustained by a government-funded mega-billion-dollar disinformation/scare campaign.'
Pierre Gosselin,
https://notrickszone.com/2019/06/01/new-proxy-data-show-northern-europe-weather-variability-in-sync-with-natural-factors-solar-activity-oceanic-cycles/
'Most scientists who are skeptics like me accept that global warming is real, but not that it’s entirely man-made or that it’s dangerous. The observations alone aren’t evidence for a major human role. Such lack of regard for the importance of empirical evidence, and misguided faith in the power of deficient computer climate models, are abuses of science.'https://notrickszone.com/2019/06/01/new-proxy-data-show-northern-europe-weather-variability-in-sync-with-natural-factors-solar-activity-oceanic-cycles/
Ralph B Alexander, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Under-Attack-Age-Unreason/dp/1628943637
'Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the
consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they
claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.'
Thomas Sowell
'If only more persons understood how poorly climate models simulated global mean surface temperatures—the primary metric of human-induced climate change—the human-induced global warming scare might just disappear into the past like the Y2K scare. Then again, the global warming/climate change scare has nothing to do with science; it is simply global politics at its worst, masquerading as science.'
Bob Tisdale, 2019. Backs it up here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/01/global-mean-surface-temperature-early-20th-century-warming-period-models-versus-models-models-versus-data/
'When you’ve been covering the climate/environment/energy beat for as long as I have, every day is Groundhog Day. Every day it’s the same bunch of troughers, spivs, second-raters, crooks, liars, half-wits, chancers, bottom-feeders and eco-fascists churning out the same old propaganda…'
James Delingpole, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/07/delingpole-the-shocking-true-story-of-how-global-warming-became-the-biggest-fakenews-scare-of-all-time-pt-2/
'Computer modelling of the earth's climate is a valid activity carried out in private between consenting adults who understand its considerable limitations. Using it to scare the human race into believing they or their children are in danger of drowning as a result of their own modern lifestyles is criminal. Ironically, the climate science industry is largely populated by individuals who are in it precisely in order to fund their own modern lifestyles.'
esmiff, in a comment here: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2016/5/13/how-low-can-ecs-go.html
'Yet today’s computer modelers claim they can model the climate – which involves far more variables than the economy or stock market – and do so decades or even a century into the future. They then tell governments to make trillion-dollar policy decisions that will impact every aspect of our lives, based on the outputs of their models. Incredibly, the United Nations and governments around the world are complying with this demand. We are crazy to continue letting them get away with it.'
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Lehr__Harris_-_Mathematical_modeling_illusions_(1).pdf
'Ever notice how actual climate results are never part of the claimed benefits of green energy? Measures of success are always carbon emissions reduced, houses powered, kilowatts generated, and carbon credits purchased. No one ever talks about actual reductions in temperature or about droughts, floods, or hurricanes to be averted by using renewable energy. Adoption of green policies is as hollow as building a hospital and never curing a patient or raising an army and never taking a hill.'
Steve Goreham
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/22/apple-and-google-pour-billions-down-a-green-drain/
'The climate change debate is being dominated not by scientists, but by pseudo-scientist ideology-driven zealots. They approach it backward, with a conclusion firmly in mind. Whatever they can contort into supporting the hypothesis, they keep. All else they often reject or downplay. The facts are made submissive to the conclusion.'
Jeremiah Jacques
http://www.mywebtimes.com/opinion/columnists/soapbox-global-warming-the-book-is-not-closed/article_5e0e0806-2536-5e8d-9e72-121f20690d40.html
'Finally, it is essential that intellectual integrity be restored to the scientific profession. Too much money has been devoted to funding global warming scientists, who have depended for their livelihood on a high level of public and political anxiety about global warming, and have hence tended to suppress the evidence against the popular hysteria. .... Enlightenment standards of scientific integrity have been subverted by government cash and media hysteria. For the sake of all our futures this must never be allowed to happen again.'
Martin Hutchinson, http://www.tbwns.com/2015/07/20/the-bears-lair-global-warming-hysteria-one-huge-ghastly-mistake/
"The statistical methods used in the paper are so bad as to merit use in a class on how not to do applied statistics.
All this paper demonstrates is that climate scientists should take some basic courses in statistics and Nature should get some competent referees."
Gordon Hughes, http://climateaudit.org/2015/02/05/marotzke-and-forsters-circular-attribution-of-cmip5-intermodel-warming-differences/
"Personally I’ve always wondered if there is a correspondence between promotion of green ideas, and poor life choices made by far too many of our children – if you tell a child they have no future, that the world is about to be destroyed, that its all their parent’s fault, and that there is nothing they can do about it, don’t expect them to be enthusiastic about doing their homework."
Eric Worrall, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/15/a-climate-of-despair-climategate-had-more-effect-than-we-realize/
"The origins of warmism lie in a cocktail of ideas which includes anti-industrial nature worship, post-colonial guilt, a post-Enlightenment belief in scientists as a new priesthood of the truth, a hatred of population growth, a revulsion against the widespread increase in wealth and a belief in world government."
Charles Moore
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/10748667/The-game-is-up-for-climate-change-believers.html
"Thanks to climate change scams, swine flu and a whole host of own-goals, the status of the white-coated prima donnas and narcissists has never been lower in the public esteem. It was Rush Limbaugh, of all unlikely candidates, who at the height of the Climategate exposé made the thoughtful point that more than climate was at stake: the credibility of the entire scientific community was collapsing. He was right. After a period of priest-like authority, the pointy-heads in lab coats have re-assumed the role of mad cranks they enjoyed from the days of Frankenstein to boys’ comics in the 1950s."
Gerald Warner http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100022443/government-scientific-advisers-who-needs-these-nuts-in-white-coats/
"Climate Change. A term, which attempts to take the natural weather pattern and attribute it to the activities of humans. Heavily adopted recently for use to promote cave living, the idea that humans are a noxious virus on planet Earth, and the practice of greater separation between the rich and the poor. " One of the definitions of 'climate change' in the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=climate%20change)
"A senior Australian police officer specializing in organised-crime frauds tells me the pattern of fraud on the part of a handful of climate scientists may yet lead to prosecutions.
When the cell door slams on the first bad scientist, the rest will scuttle for cover. Only then will the climate scare – mankind’s strangest and costliest intellectual aberration – be truly over."
Christopher Monckton, early in 2013 (http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/time-to-jail-the-climate-scamsters/#UuIuH4iwjJmZ8RTu.99)"Misleading public claims. An over-hyped press release. A paper which neglects to include materially relevant and contradictory information central to its core argument. All in all, just a normal day in climate science!"
Roger Pielke Jnr in connection with junk promoted by Munich Re - arch-exploiters of climate scaremongering.
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/fool-me-once-munich-res-thunderstorm.html
"Expensive energy is not a good thing for anyone, wealthy or poor. And in particular, more expensive energy condemns the poor to lives of increased misery and privation ... So I’m sorry, but I am totally unwilling to trade inexpensive energy today, which is the real actual salvation of the poor today, for some imagined possible slight reduction in the temperature fifty years from now."
Willis Eschenbach, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/13/we-have-met-the-1-and-he-is-us/
"The blind adherence to the harebrained idea that climate models can generate "realistic" simulations of climate is the principal reason why I remain a climate skeptic. From my background in turbulence I look forward with grim anticipation to the day that climate models will run with a horizontal resolution of less than a kilometer. The horrible predictability problems of turbulent flows then will descend on climate science with a
vengeance."
Henk Tennekes, http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/commentaries/tennekes_essays_climate_models.pdf
"Rig public enquiries, hound blameless people out of their jobs, breach Freedom of Information laws, abuse the scientific method, lie, threaten, bribe, cheat, adopt nakedly political positions in taxpayer-funded academic and advisory posts that ought to be strictly neutral, trample on property rights, destroy rainforests, drive up food prices (causing unrest in the Middle East and starvation in the Third World), raise taxes, remove personal freedoms, artificially raise energy prices, featherbed rent-seekers, blight landscapes, deceive voters, twist evidence, force everyone to use expensive, dim light bulbs, frighten schoolchildren, bully adults, increase unemployment, destroy democratic accountability, take control of global governance and impose a New World Order."
James Delingpole, 'Watermelons' (quoted here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100196238/why-we-fight/)
“There is currently
no evidence that increased human-based emissions of carbon dioxide or other
“greenhouse gases” have any measurable effect on the climate. This view is
based upon my experience as an expert reviewer of all of the Reports of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate and an intimate knowledge of everything in
them.”
Vincent
Gray, 2012: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?p=2692
“These
are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us
suffering if we have the presumption to refuse to listen to them”
Pascal Bruckner,
2012, http://antigreen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chris-mooney-still-gets-it-hilariously.html#links
“The science is in, the truth is out, the models are off, green
investments are down, Al Gore is through, the game is up and the scare
is over.”
Viscount Monckton in Gibraltar, http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=26352
Viscount Monckton in Gibraltar, http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=26352
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WALTER STARCK, http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2014/11/climate-scams-meltdown/
Removed 06/01/2015