“The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.” BelieveMayActionOpportunityEnergyEnvironmentEffectsMissingPolicyMajorsSolutionsWindowImpactClimateClimate ChangeFollowingDisasterPracticalsTemporaryAcceptableSevereLegislatorsBold ActionsNear Misses Author:John Beddington
“...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface?...Perhaps all of these things are going on?” WellsEnergyEnvironmentSeaOceanClimate ChangeSurfaceIceHeatBuriedMeltingArcticGlaciersAntarcticaBelow The SurfaceGreenland Author:Kevin E. Trenberth
“Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMeanEnergyEnvironmentFatePlanetsDespairClimateClimate ChangeFollowingCatastropheAvert Author:Paul Krugman
“Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.” WellsMomentsFactsEnergyMy OwnEnvironmentAccountsClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingArticlesTravestyCauses Of Global Warming Author:Kevin E. Trenberth
“I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSatisfactionClosure Author:Diablo Cody
“We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.” ShouldTryingYearsEnergyEnvironmentAimClimate ChangeAvailableDataShould I Author:Phil Jones
“I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.” PeopleThreeEnergyEnvironmentInformationCoupleClimate ChangeReleaseDataStationsTemperature Author:Phil Jones
“I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.” KnowsYearsStoriesRealityEnergySimpleSituationEnvironmentNiceThousandPressureRegardClimate ChangeDataThousand YearsUnprecedentedTidyProxy Author:Keith Briffa
“I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.” YearsRealLastsEnergyEnvironmentSeriesClimate ChangeTricksDeclineMikeKeith Author:Phil Jones
“Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.” MayEnergyEnvironmentClimate ChangeAddressesGenesMailMikeKeith Author:Phil Jones