Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. SuperFreakonomics. William Morrow, 2009.
This was a climate-change science denier who actually helps make the climate change argument in this quote. Since the Earth has had several ice ages, there must of been times when it did not go from hot to cold as Koch herein observes. During periods after the ice ages, climate went from cold to hot. But this point has nothing to do with the contemporary evidence of man made global warming.. Scientists with the benefit of mathematics have been able to calculate the normal and average temperature fluctuations and the actual fluctuations that have occurred since man began the industrial revolution. The clear difference shows that there has been an increase over and above the normal fluctuations that new expected.
Nathan Paul Myhrvold, formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine and its successor books. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17 U.S. patents at Microsoft and is co-inventor on over 900 other U.S. patents issued to his corporation and its affiliates.