“Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.” IfsGivingStatesHouseUnitedUnited StatesFarmsSenateLegislationTreatiesKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Thomas Schelling
“I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.” PeopleKnowsYearsSometimesNextEnergyWishEnvironmentFiveTenHappeningsConcernedClimateClimate ChangeThings HappenMidwestTornadoes Author:Thomas Schelling
“I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.” ThinkingBelievePresidentMistakeClaimsClimateClimate ChangeIranHolocaustSkeptic Author:Thomas Schelling
“I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.” HelpingUseOpportunityGamesSituationTheoryConflict Author:Thomas Schelling
“There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.” PlanningTendenciesUnfamiliarImprobable Author:Thomas Schelling
“When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.” TodayUsedTheoryConflictHappeningsHarderUnionsNuclearSovietSoviet UnionComplicationStandoffs Author:Thomas Schelling
