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

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.

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!

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them

Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

Soul - is a bottomless moneybox disappointment.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Liverpool have played with no real convention.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.