“My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.” FirstsHumansBitsDirectClaimsGlobal WarmingCarbonInclinationSkepticalCarbon DioxideContributors Author:Buzz Aldrin
“If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksAgeFilmTurnsNextDangerousTomorrowClaimsEnvironmentalLike MeIceIronyGlobal WarmingGood TimesPlotActivistTrendsEnvironmentalistDiscreditIce Age Author:David Edelstein
“Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.” HumansDoeShowsOpinionSeriousCreatingConcernScientistClaimsCrisisAgreeMajorityGlobal WarmingActivistOverwhelmingComponentsSurveysMeteorologists Author:James Taylor
“It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.” WorldWholeViewsCasesPolicyTheoryClaimsPoint Of ViewGlobal WarmingCompellingPublic PolicyDubiousPolicy Making Author:Nick Minchin
“...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.” MadeEarthSidesDevelopmentModelsResearchScientistClaimsComplexesAidsStatementsDataGlobal WarmingMinoritiesFraudBoth SidesDeliberateVocalFundingMistrustAccusingHoaxesEpithetHurlingEarth Science Author:Joanne Simpson
“I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now - It's like a bunch of theologians arguing over how many angels you can stick on the head of a needle. When you've got a side that changes from global warming, global warming, global warming to climate change, which is intuitive - the climate has always been changing since the beginning of time - and then just begins to claim every answer is the correct answer, you often stand back, and I don't care who you are, you have to question as to what the real motive is in this.” ThinkingRealCareCausesSidesAnswersPiecesAngelClaimsWho You AreSticksClimateClimate ChangeDon't CareArguingDebateSillyBunchConfusionI Don't CareMotiveGlobal WarmingTheologianIntuitiveNeedles Author:Joe Bastardi
“In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming.” PeopleShowsNamesCausesSupportTheoryPaperEvidenceClaimsClimateEverydayClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingCosmosCarbonPapersSpinningEmissionsCarbon DioxideEmpirical EvidenceCarbon Dioxide EmissionsCauses Of Global Warming Author:Joanne Nova
“... The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming.” WorldHumansRealityWaterLevelsStudyEffectsActivityPercentClaimsResponsibleImpactGlobal WarmingIrrelevantTemperatureHuman ActivityGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2Vapor Author:Walter Cunningham
“There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.” GivingHumansSelfHappensNaturalKnownMoralEnvironmentLowsClaimsIncludingOfficialsInterviewsGlobal WarmingConceptionDocumentsPopePreparingGuardianPromotionImperativesRankingRight To LifeTropesSelf PromotionNatural Death Author:George Weigel
“Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.” WayEnoughSpeakSituationMillionsSunScientistClaimsAgreeMilesGlobal WarmingConsensusMiles Away Author:Michael Crichton
“Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.” HappensPerfectExampleTheoryClaimsIceGlobal WarmingAstrologyCapsWhatever HappensTheoristsPseudo Author:Frank J. Tipler
“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.'” IfsYearsHumansMeanHas BeensWholeEarthUniverseChangedPeriodsDegreesMassEvidenceClaimsClimate ChangeAverageBehaveGlobal WarmingStableTemperatureWhole YearHuman HealthChanges Over TimeProton Author:Ivar Giaever
“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.” IssuesApproachClaimsDebateConclusionFirmOur TimeGlobal Warming Author:Pal Brekke
“The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.” WorldHumansDoeCountryBehindsAcceptingSupportHatredClaimsMajorityPopulationRussiaDespiteIdeologyCommunismPropagandaGlobal WarmingExposedFascismHumankindDefeatedRestrictionGdpHuman FreedomCo2KyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Andrey Illarionov
“I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.” PeopleKnowsHumansMayLongCausesIssuesWillingConsequenceClaimsAssumingClimateClimate ChangeAcknowledgeGlobal WarmingAbandonedLong AgoBehaviourCoveragePretenceImpartiality Author:Jeremy Paxman