David Ignatius Quotes

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don't know.

We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still out on it. We see nothing but conflicting reports from across the globe. I'm not sure; I'm not a scientist.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't.

I believe the science we have seen does not support the need to engage in questionable policies to control so-called 'global warming.’

Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

Call me a converted skeptic. Prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct … humans are almost entirely the cause.