Ken Buck Quotes

I believe there is climate change. I'm not sure you can call it climate warming anymore, especially here in the Carolinas. I think the big debate is how much of it is man-made and how much of it will just naturally happen as Earth evolves.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.

Climate changes are caused by solar radiation and other natural phenomena, so I don't worry one bit about that. Nothing we do can change anything in the climate.

I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.

We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.

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

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

I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising - or that humankind is the cause. There is no evidence to refute this - or any genuine scientific counterargument in the climate change debate.

I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not.

The earth is warming. Humans are contributing.

I believe the Earth is warming.

I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I've seen the changes that have taken place in the Antarctic, in the Himalayas, where the natural ice has sort of faded away, and there's no doubt in my mind that we're living in a strange world, a world which is not easy to understand or handle, But there's nothing you can do about, you just have to live your life as best you can.

Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.