Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.

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.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

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.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

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.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.