When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.

Jo's whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn't materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

Do nice things for people who may be less fortunate than you.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.