Climate Change

global warming cooling climate model projection unreliable

"In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable."

— Henrik Svensmark

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"... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork."

― Henrik Svensmark

100 yearscosmicrays sun cloud global warming climate

"During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world."

― Henrik Svensmark

men argue nature acts

“Men argue. Nature acts.”

― Voltaire (1694-1778)

predict weather six months seasons

“There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average”

― Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

social ecology problem climate

“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows, from this view, that these ecological problems cannot be understood, let alone solved, without a careful understanding of our existing society and the irrationalities that dominate it. To make this point more concrete: economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations we face today—apart, to be sure, from those that are produced by natural catastrophes.”

― Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)

race technoscientific force destroy environment humanity

“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.”

― E.O. Wilson (1929-2021)

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“One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood”

― Tim Flannery

human mind climate change problem solution politician

“The human mind can solve the problem of climate change, but the world is ruled by the mind of politicians, and this low mind always produce problems, let alone solve a problem!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

climate change urbanizartion biotechnology century

“Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.”

― Stewart Brand

solve problem thinking create

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

look deep study nature understand

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

earth dying killed name addresses

"The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

earth inherit ancestor borrow children

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children"

— Chief Seattle (1786-1866)

earth home pile of filth

"The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth."

— Pope Francis

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"Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles."

— David Suzuki

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

– H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

climate change policy redistribute wealth

"Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth."

— Ottmar Edenhofer

global warmin real climate change science threat

"I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change."

— Herman Cain

climate change happens help

"Climate change — it happens, with or without our help."

— Roy Spencer

nature static internal change climate biology

"Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes — both in climate and in biological systems."

— Roy Spencer

global warming average temperature stable 288 health happiness

"In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'"

— Ivar Giaever

Europe climate change absolutism religion mantra blasphemy

"In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy."

— Nigel Lawson

Global warming Kyoto climate change scandal IPCC

"Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down."

— Nigel Lawson

paradigm simulation theory observation science lobby advantage

"In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage."

— Richard Lindzen

climate change data error quality defect

"The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects."

— Steve McIntyre

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"A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit."

— Kenneth P. Green

global warming problem nonsense harm

"The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

climate model output

"It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.!"

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

average temperature earth mesure ocean

"The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

climate change normal human

"Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

sea picture glacier normal natural cycle

"Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

vegetation climate model atmosphere

"Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

world warmer global

"There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

global warming important nonsense distract attention

"The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. It distracts people's attention from much more serious problems."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

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"When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

computer model climate dubious input

"Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

environmental change human activity natural process control

"We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

revolution capital hierarchy planet

"I feel that we are confronted with a revolution of monumental importance and while this revolution is in the hands of capital and the state, its impacts upon society could very well be devastating. I cannot foresee that it will benefit human society or the ecology of our planet as much as is will be utilized for domination and hierarchy, which is what all technological innovation, to one extent or another, has always been utilized for."

― Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)

life planet earth 3000 million years human care protect

“Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”

― Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)

saving planet honesty science middle-class cash profit

"The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow."

― Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)

planetary health geological scale misguided

"I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all."

― Richard C. Lewontin

complex data present prove theory

"Complex data from disparate sources can be processed and presented in very different ways, and to “prove” many different theories."

— Burt Rutan

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"Warm periods are good, not bad. It would be beneficial to have more warming than present"

— Burt Rutan

climate change debte error truth inquiry

"Is the debate over? – The loudest Alarmist says the debate is over. However, “It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry”."

— Burt Rutan

IPCC human effectclimate

“The many, many thousands of pages of the Assessment Reports of the UN’s climate panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are the expression of the beliefs of a small circle of scientists and interested lobbyists who, against all evidence, have convinced themselves that humans are having a dramatic effect on the Earth’s climate.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC sun influence climate change

“the IPCC asserts against all evidence that the sun has little influence on climate change. This represents neither a consensus nor an authoritative review of the subject.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC para-science self-serving existence

“the IPCC has been practicing ‘para-science’ in that, while it affects the appearance of practicing science, it has violated longheld scientific norms and practices of fully and accurately representing the current state of scientific knowledge, and of proposing and testing alternative hypotheses in order to extend knowledge. Instead, the IPCC and its authors have acted out of prejudice in a manner that has misled both politicians and a largely unsuspecting public. As a redress, I have spelled out here several of the IPCC’s numerous, specific and grievous errors in science. Each error has the effect of minimising the role of the sun and thereby supporting the IPCC’s unsupportable claim to be ‘95 per cent confident’ that most of the 0.7°C global warming since 1950 was manmade. That assertion is made without evidence. The assertion is also self-serving, in that the IPCC depends on it for its own continued existence.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC molecule CO2 human climate change

“In fact, only one molecule of every 85,000 in the atmosphere is CO2 of human origin, and yet we are asked to believe that this one molecule drives hugely complex climate change systems. We are also asked to believe that the 32 molecules of CO2 of natural origin in every 85,000 molecules play no part in driving climate change.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC lesson science history organisation financially dependent

“The central lesson to be learned from this episode in scientific history is that to create an organisation financially and ideologically dependent upon coming to a single, aprioristic viewpoint, regardless of the objective truth, is to create a monster that ignores the truth. Regrettably, the cumulative effect of the IPCC’s conduct over the last 25 years has inflicted severe and long-term damage on the reputation of science and of scientists everywhere.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC biologists CO2 plant growth animal life pollution

“Biologists have always known that CO2 is essential for plant growth, and of course without plants there would be very little animal life, and no human life, on the planet. The climate alarmists have done their best to obscure this basic scientific truth by insisting on describing carbon emissions as ‘pollution’—which, whether or not they warm the planet, they most certainly are not—and deliberately mislabelling forms of energy which produce these emissions as ‘dirty’. In the same way, they like to label renewable energy as ‘clean’, seemingly oblivious to the fact that by far the largest source of renewable energy in the world today is biomass, and in particular the burning of dung, which is the major source of indoor pollution in the developing world and is reckoned to cause at least a million deaths a year.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC political chairman Rajendra Pachuri

“First, as a branch of the United Nations, the IPCC is itself an intensely political and not a scientific body. As its chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri observed in an interview with the Guardian newspaper: We are an intergovernmental body and we do what the governments of the world want us to do. If the governments decide we should do things differently and come up with a vastly different set of products we would be at their beck and call. To boot, the IPCC charter requires that the organisation investigates not climate change in the round, but solely global warming caused by human greenhouse emissions, a blinkered approach that consistently damages all IPCC pronouncements.”

― Alan Moran

IPCC charter global warming human greenhouse emissions CO2

“…the IPCC charter requires that the organisation investigates not climate change in the round, but solely global warming caused by human greenhouse emissions, a blinkered approach that consistently damages all IPCC pronouncements.”

― Alan Moran

distinction science scientist propaganda funding

“It is relevant to note at this point that there is an important distinction between science and scientists. I have the greatest respect for science, whose development has transformed the world for the better. But scientists are no better and no worse than anyone else. There are good scientists and there are bad scientists. Many scientists are outstanding people working long hours to produce important results. They must be frustrated that political activists then turn those results into propaganda. Yet they dare not speak out for fear of losing their funding.”

― Alan Moran

US $7 billion global warming money laudering vapid report

“The US alone spends $7 billion each year on ‘warming studies’ which, in truth, is nothing but a huge money laundering operation, since no real science is conducted. Vapid alarmist reports are the only product generated.”

― Alan Moran

Western world collective madness climate change orthodoxy religi

“So how is it that much of the Western world has succumbed to the self-harming collective madness that is climate change orthodoxy? It is difficult to escape the conclusion that climate change orthodoxy has in effect become a substitute religion, attended by all the intolerant zealotry that has so often marred religion in the past, and in some places still does so today.”

― Alan Moran

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“It is a cruel irony that, while it was science which, more than anything else, was able by its great achievements, to establish the age of reason, it is all too many climate scientists and their hangers-on who have become the high priests of a new age of unreason.”

― Alan Moran

atmospheric CO2 dangerously atypically high all-time low

“It is widely misrepresented in the public domain that Earth’s current levels of atmospheric CO2 are dangerously and atypically high. Such claims are false, because modern CO2 levels lie near to an all-time low as assessed against the geological record.”

― Alan Moran

climate science denial global warming paradigm model failure

“A problem that deserves much further investigation is how climate science could continue in its remarkable denial that the aggressive global warming paradigm has been shattered, with now 37 consecutive years of documented, systematic model failure.”

― Alan Moran

CO2 computer climate-model political bureaucracy

"…the public perception of carbon dioxide has been dominated by the computer climate-model experts who designed the plan. The tribal group-thinking of that group of experts was amplified and reinforced by a supportive political bureaucracy."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

CO2 climate change benefits

"The direct effects of carbon dioxide increase on plant growth and interspecific competition receive little attention. The plan is drawn up as if climatic change were the only serious effect of carbon dioxide on human activities. . .In a comparison of the non-climatic with the climatic effects of carbon dioxide, the nonclimatic effects may be:

1. more certain,

2. more immediate,

3. easier to observe,

4. potentially at least as serious.

… Our research plan should address these issues directly, not as a mere side-line to climatic studies."

― Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)