Is there any other possible thing to explain this? I’m sorry, sir, it took a few billion dollars of money and about thirty years to say that there is nothing else we find in Nature to do this. Professor Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University
What could be more fulfilling than getting together to dance, yell and save the world from environmental catastrophe? But is it the same catastrophe as 1971, or is it a different catastrophe? Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s1e13: Environmental Hysteria, Showtime 2003
[Bjorn] Lomborg’s extensive research shows that right now the health of the planet is improving on almost all fronts. ibid.
Is passion supposed to replace common sense? ibid.
No end justifies the means of lying. ibid.
Scientists are telling us we’re heading into a new ... Ice age? What? It’s from Time Magazine Monday June 24th 1974. Fuck! Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s6e6: Being Green
It’s a new craze built on eco-guilds. And it’s bullshit. ibid.
If only there was some way to cope with our guilt: our eco-anxiety. ibid.
In the late middles ages the Catholic Church thought of a diabolical way to bring in more cash ... These sin credits were a big money maker … ibid.
Two degrees ... All agree that we have to stabilise global temperatures within two degrees of pre-industrial levels ... If you cross that threshold then there are tipping points in the Earth’s system which could drive the warming process essentially out of control: huge amounts of carbon could be coming out of the world’s trees and the soils, methane could be coming out of the permafrost in Siberia, and it’s that extra input of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which then leads us up the worst case scenario of six or more degrees and the eventual wipe-out of most of the life on Earth. Mark Lynas, author Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
For our own world the peril is more subtle. Since this series was first broadcast the dangers of the increasing greenhouse effect have become much more clear. We burn fossil fuels like coal and gas and petroleum putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and thereby heating the Earth. The hellish conditions on Venus are a reminder that this is serious business. Professor Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Heaven and Hell, PBS 1980
The Earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time ... Global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence the cause and effect of the relationship to the Greenhouse Effect ... The Greenhouse Effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as thermal heat waves. Professor James Hansen, evidence to Congressional Inquiry 1988
Coal-fired power plants produce the most incredibly damaging waste we know that’s changing the nature of our atmosphere. Professor Tim Flannery, chairman Copenhagen Climate Council
We were trashing our environment and it seemed no-one cared. Professor Tim Flannery, chairman Copenhagen Climate Council
Climategate scientists cleared of manipulating data on global warming. The Guardian article
Bill Gates’ cloud-whitening trials ‘a dangerous experiment’: Campaigners say a Bill Gates-backed geo-engineering project to whiten clouds and reduce global warming is risky. Guardian online 14th May 2010
Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists: Key claim of global warming sceptics debunked. The Independent
Secretive and unhelpful. But scientist in Climategate storm still gets his job back. Daily Mail article 8th July 2000
Global warning could stop naturally for ten years, say scientists. Daily Mail article 1st May 2008
Information from satellites has convinced most scientists that average temperatures will rise from two to five degrees Celsius over the next hundred years. ITV News at Ten 11th April 1989
Storms, cyclones, drought, high winds and floods – a foretaste of global warming, a change in the climate caused by man’s pollution of the planet. Panorama, The Big Heat, reporting Steve Bradshaw, BBC 1990
The climate is changing fast but what can we do to help avert a full-grown crisis? Should we change our homes, the way we travel, what we eat? Panorama: Climate Change: What Can We Do? BBC 2019
Earlier this year the government pledged to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050. ibid.
The UK’s weather is getting wilder. This year we’ve been soaked with record-breaking rainfall and have sweltered in soaring temperatures. We’ve endured the pandemic but we’ve also seen some of our most extraordinary destructive weather yet. We’ll take you to the eye of the storm, and into the heat of this year’s exceptional weather. We’ll be asking what today’s wild weather tells us about the UK’s future climate. Because climate change is going to affect all our lives. Panorama: Britain’s Wild Weather, Justin Rowlatt reporting, BBC 2020
Our winters have got 12% wetter on average over the last 60 years. ibid.
Across the UK there are 1.8 million people whose homes are at risk of sea or river flooding. Many are in areas of low-lying ground. But despite the risks, we are still building homes in flood-hit areas. ibid.
Vulnerable places along the east Anglian coast have seen the same: sea-level rises and storms eating away at land and homes. ibid.
During the twelve months to July 104 wildfires broke out across the UK, with 9 across a 2 week period in May alone. ibid.
Are we losing the fight against climate change? Despite all the green promises, we are using more fossil fuels than ever before. New research reveals how energy companies are ignoring climate change advice. Almost all the world’s energy companies are planning to drill for more oil and gas. Panorama: Why Are We Still Searching for Fossil Fuels? Richard Bilton reporting, BBC 2023
Climate change has been here for some time and it is accelerating. It will not take any notice of the words from the UN, NATO or any other governmental body. Over the next fifty years it will lay waste to the most populous areas of the planet. The major economies, thus denied their cheap production facilities, will collapse. They will then be inundated by the climate migrants. The only thing that will change this is action not words. Action by Governments and action by individuals. So let’s do it. John Lilley
I am the man who announced global warming is a scam. John Coleman, weatherman Good Morning, America
The Climategate emails expose to our view a world that was previously hidden from virtually everyone.
This formerly hidden world was made up of a very few players. But they controlled those critical Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) processes involving the temperature records from the past, and the official interpretation of current temperature data. They exerted previously unrecognized influence on the ‘peer review’ process for papers seeking publication in the officially recognised climate science literature from which the IPCC was supposed to rely exclusively in order to draw its conclusions.
The Climategate emails demonstrate that these people had no regard for the traditions and assumptions which had developed over centuries and which provided the foundations of Western science. At the very core of this tradition is respect for truth and honesty in reporting data and results; and a recognition that all the data, and all the steps required to reach a result, had to be available to the scientific world at large. John Costella, The Climategate Emails
Apeakolypse Now: I Love the Smell of Climate Change in the Morning. Cartoon
A massive uptake of renewable energy and the adoption of energy efficiency are the only ways to combat climate change. Greenpeace International, April 2007
The world is not going to die because of carbon dioxide being poured into the atmosphere. And there’s plenty of proof. David Bellamy
Global warming – at least the modern nightmare vision – is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world’s politicians and policy-makers are not. David Bellamy, Daily Mail
They say this is global warming; I say it is poppycock. ibid.
And when we look at all the ice-cores that we’ve studied that’s exactly what happens – the temperature goes up and then CO2 starts pouring out of the sea, so it’s not the driver of global warming ... If you look at the real data which is the sun-spots on the sun, we are heading for thirty damned cold years ... You hear one side of the argument; you don’t hear the other side ... It is a total scam and it’s breaking very very rapidly ... It’s wonderful way of controlling and taxing people. David Bellamy, Late Late Show RTC1
The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist. David Bellamy
The guy who invented CO2 trading was none other than Ken Lay, the guy who founded Enron. And this market, this false market, is estimated to increase into the trillions within the next two decades. So we’re going to find that the world’s most valuable traded commodity, even more valuable than oil or gold, is this CO2 thing. And the only way this market can survive is by pan-global government regulation. James Delingpole, interview Alex Jones
The anthropomorphic global warming scam is the big one ... An excuse to tax humanity on a scale never before envisaged. James Delingpole, interview Alex Jones
Watching the Climategate scandal explode makes me feel like a proud parent. This is the greatest scientific scandal in the history of the world. James Delingpole, article Spectator Magazine