...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

Richard Lindzen

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.