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.

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.

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!

You begins with 'Y'-so ask, observe, and listen.

The best government is that which governs least.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.