...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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.

Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

cats choose us; we don't own them

He talked with more claret than clarity

When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.