Christopher Monckton Quotes

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

I think we do have cyclic changes in weather, and I think that's been throughout the course of history.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

The climate informs the character.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. 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.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.

Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

Our climate is always changing.

My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.

The climate is changing; I don't think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe the climate is changing because there's never been a moment where the climate is not changing.