The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!