This seems like a good idea, and I’ll be happy to dedicate a page to it if readers help fill in.
WUWT reader Charles Harrison uses the new submit story feature (see header menu) to ask this:
I would like to have a personal collection of AGW quotations to use in presentations, etc. Things like no more snow, the latest proposal to tattoo skeptics, the need to bring about the end of industrial civilization, etc.
I think this would be fun and useful and maybe Anthony could make a spot for it on the reference page. If nothing else, I would like to be sure I have correct attributions when I use these quotes.
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Oh the horror!
“I’ve watched in horror as the snow has just melted away from Cypress Mountain,” Suzuki said, referring to the 2010 Olympic Games snowboarding and freestyle skiing venue.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/winter-233250-games-olympic.html
From a British Think Tank
Warm Words :How are we telling the climate story and can we tell it better?
“ behaving as if climate change exists and is real”
“To help address the chaotic nature of the climate change discourse in the UK today, interested agencies now
need to treat the argument as having been won, at least for popular communications. This means simply
behaving as if climate change exists and is real, and that individual actions are effective. The ‘facts’ need to
be treated as being so taken-for-granted that they need not be spoken.”
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=485
“But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.”
–Ottmar Edenhoffer, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III, quoted in Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010
How about: ‘Heavy downpours will not stop drought’? Louise Gray – Environmental Correspondent – The Daily Telegraph – UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8560127/Heavy-downpours-will-not-stop-drought.html
If rain won’t stop droughts, maybe snow will do the trick?
I know a lot of these quotes have been gathered elsewhere, but I would be very interested in seeing them here – WUWT is always my first stop for climate-related research…
A capital idea, Mr. Watts! I would also encourage readers to cite their sources. I think this could not ONLY be used to challenge the presumptions of AGW proponents, but may be of use to sociologists that wish to study moral panic or group hysteria.
We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public’s imagination…
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts…
This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently
find ourselves in cannot be solved by any
formula. Each of us has to decide what the
right balance is between being effective
and being honest. I hope that means being both.
– Prof. Stephen Schneider,
There, fixed that for you.
“Well, there will be more traffic… The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change… There will be more police cars… you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”
a) The prediction was for 2028.
b) The road Hansen was looking at is no longer there. It was rebuilt in 2001. Apparently the earlier highway was prone to flooding.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=627
http://www.nycroads.com/roads/west-side/
‘We have to announce disasters or nobody will listen’ Professor Sir John Houghton
Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientist http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/fabricated-quote-used-to-discredit-climate-scientist-1894552.html
Phil Clarke,
As they say, a half truth is a whole lie. There is no “double ethical bind.” There is only the truth – and then everything else. Schneider excused the use of ‘everything else’ as being A-OK in order to push his CAGW agenda.
Please don’t try to convince us that these self-serving alarmist scientists are ethical. They are not. If they were ethical they would abide by the scientific method, providing full transparency and cooperating with scientific skeptics – the only honest kind of scientists.
From the article 1999 Nature article Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing by Drew T. Shindell, Ron L. Miller, Gavin A. Schmidt & Lionel Pandolfo
as they explain why the AO has been steadily increasing. I wonder how the explain its recent downturn?
“The spatial structure of the Arctic Oscillation is reproduced as the leading wintertime mode of Northern Hemisphere SLP in all the GISS models studied. Furthermore, an increase in the AO index consistent with the recent observed trend occurs in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gases in models containing stratospheric
dynamics. This suggests that the observed trend is a signature of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and that trends in surface air temperature associated with the AO should be attributed to human activities, rather than to natural variability”
For me, the quote that sums up the whole scam came from “Harry” in the Harry readme text file
“Here, the expected 1990-2003 period is MISSING – so the correlations aren’t so hot! Yet
the WMO codes and station names /locations are identical (or close). What the hell is
supposed to happen here? Oh yeah – there is no ‘supposed’, I can make it up. So I have.”
They could make it all up, so they did !
from 1999 Climactic Change article “CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGES OF EXTREMES OF THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE” by Kevin Trenberth
“With higher average temperatures in winter expected, more precipitation is likely to fall in the form of rain rather than snow, which will increase both soil moisture and run off, as noted by the IPCC (1996) and found in many models.”
From The 2006 Journal of Climate article “Trends in Snowfall versus Rainfall in the Western United States” by NOAH KNOWLES U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
MICHAEL D. DETTINGER AND DANIEL R. CAYAN U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego,
La Jolla, California
“If warming trends across the western United States continue, as projected in response to increasing greenhouse
gas concentrations in the atmosphere (IPCC 2001), the snowfall fraction of precipitation is likely to continue to decline.”
Tim Flannery:
“I think there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis”
Prince Charles:
We now only have ninety-nine months – actually very nearly ninety-eight, before we reach the point of no return, with decisions that will lock us in to our future course. The clock is ticking away inexorably; 99 months will pass in a flash, believe you me.
Michael Sanderson, talking about Hubert Lamb:
A holocaust within a century was an even more exciting prospect than an ice age in ten millennia and it all helped to shape contemporary attitudes to global warming.
Paul Ehrlich
Air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone
Ecotretas
The late, great Schneider expounds at length on exactly what he meant by the ethical bind here:http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Mediarology/Mediarology.html#TheDoubleEthicalBindPitfall
From the 2001 PNAS article “The North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, present, and future”
Martin H. Visbeck*†, James W. Hurrell‡, Lorenzo Polvani§, and Heidi M. Cullen
“The absence of a demonstrated skillful predictive model leaves us with significant uncertainty about NAO variability in the future. The proposed response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations through forcing from warmer tropical SSTs (27) or a strengthened stratospheric vortex (28) implies, however, that the positive index phase might continue.”
“Mike,
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?”
Phil Jones to Michael Mann 29 May 2008
Al Gore (18 Nov 2009):
“…People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …”
Wow! “Several Million degrees”!
The warming is hotter than we thought!
🙂
“6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don’t build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!” — James Lee
http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2010/09/here-are-the-discovery-hostage-takers-insane-and-retarded-demands
“What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act,” said Dr. Suzuki, a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. “It’s an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years.”
Davi Suzuki, Addressing the McGill Business Conference on Sustainability, hosted by the Faculty of Management, Montreal, February 2008.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513
Science vol 241, July 1, 1988, p. 23
The Western world’s leading leading climatologists have confirmed recent reports of a detrimental climate change. The stability of most nations is based on a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. A forecast by the University of Wisconsin projects that the earth’s climate is returning to that of the neo-boreal era (1600-1850) — an era of drought, famine and political unrest in the western world.1974 CIA Report “A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems”
There ought to be two threads set up, one a curated / moderated thread consisting of non-duplicated material with full citations, the other (this one) a “feeder” of material for moderators to check out, edit, and move to the curated thread.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. ”
Nancy Pelosi, Meet the Press, Aug 24, 2008
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12764.html