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.

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!

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.

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

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

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.