P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.

In 2007, I received a National Geographic Expeditions Council grant to go around the top of the world and talk to Arctic people about how they've been impacted by climate change.

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such as winds, ocean currents, and sun activity. But the liberals want us to believe that climate change is also caused by gases expelled when humans burn so-called fossil fuels.

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

I think we're taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.

The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.

What's most disappointing about May's failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.

Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.