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Yes, I assert that there is no connection whatsoever between CO2 and climate change. That's all a crock of crap, in my opinion.
— John Clauser, a 2022 Physics Nobel Prize winner
people have to be ever vigilant to make sure that doomsayers are not allowed to dictate public policy.
— Arthur Middleton Hughes, was a Database marketing pioneer | The quote was the central message from his book:
About Face!: Why the World Needs More Carbon Dioxide; The Failed Science of Global Warming
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, and non-flammable gas. It is also safe for humans in the maximum concentrations recommended for plant growth. The average level of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 390 PPM (parts per million). If the level decreases down below 200 PPM in an enclosed growing area, plant growth slows to a halt. Through the years of testing and research, the optimum enrichment level of CO2 for plant growth has been agreed to be about 1500 PPM. With CO2 enrichment, under good conditions, plant growth rates and flowering will increase 20-100%. CO2 can be used from seedling right through harvest. It may take a hundred years for CO2 to get up to 1500 PPM. During that time, plant growth will flourish.
— Arthur Middleton Hughes, was a Database marketing pioneer | July 2014
Developing countries with fossil fuels are very clear that when push comes to shove, they will always prioritise development over emissions reduction. So if we want to deliver the Paris Agreement, helping them use fossil fuels more cleanly is the only game in town.
— Priti Patel, MP | 06 April 2018
Today’s crisis-mongering climate science is run like a shady business. It soaks the middle class and deprives the world’s poor of a better tomorrow.
— Anthony Sadar, Certified Consulting Meteorologist
Our planet and humankind have been challenged by climate change and extreme weather throughout history. The sun’s changing energy output and other natural forces have brought little ice ages, floods, droughts, powerful storms, and periods of prolonged warmth and bounteous harvests.
To assert that natural forces no longer play a role, that fossil fuel emissions now control climate change, or that humans can now determine planetary temperatures and climate by regulating atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels is sheer hubris. To say we should abandon the hydrocarbon energy that has brought technology, prosperity, health and longevity to billions is sheer insanity.
— David Rothbard, was President of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) | 08 Dec. 2015
I’m typically sceptical about proposals for massive, widespread deployment of wind and solar power. My problem with the idea is that these sources are intermittent, meaning we need to maintain 100 per cent backup power that we don’t intend to run much of the time, in the absence of better storage.
— Kenneth Green, an Environmental Scientist | 05 Dec. 2016
global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life.
global warming is not a global crisis.
— Dr. William J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa | Signatory on Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change | Mar. 2008
William JR Alexander was a signatory to the 2007 open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations preceding the UN climate conference in Bali.
The letter describes CO2 as a “non-polluting gas” and suggests that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will not prevent global warming.
— Dr. William J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa | 13 Dec. 2007
In the last 5-10 years, we have heard ad nauseam that there is a scientific consensus— that anthropogenic global warming is real, that man is causing the earth to warm at an alarming rate by the burning of fossils fuels, that we are nearing a tipping point after which we are doomed. That consensus arose out of the UN’s IPPC group of 2500. However, in that group there are only about 300 qualified scientists. At the same time, dissenting groups of scientists numbering 100’s to 1000’s, and in one case, 10s of 1000s have disagreed.”
— Al Pekarek, an Independent Oil & Energy Professional | Feb. 19, 2009
For half a century, greens have been prognosticating the imminent collapse of society. Yet with each new generation, deadlines to stop the destruction of the planet pass without event. In reality, the world’s population has become healthier and wealthier, and we live longer lives than ever before. Panic about the virus achieved in days what greens have been demanding for years: grounded planes, empty roads, and a halt in economic growth.
— Ben Pile, BA in Politics and Philosophy from the University of York. | May 12, 2020
One of the annoying features of greenery is that it involves rich and powerful people telling poorer, less powerful people to get poorer still.
— Charles Moore, a journalist and former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Spectator. | Oct. 13, 2018
I am positively convinced that the anthropogenic global warming theory is wrong. New developments in the physics of greenhouse effect and radiative transfer show that the accepted theory leads to largely exaggerated global warming projections.
— Miklós Zágoni | 2009
It is hard to advocate for overbearing regulations that attempt to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions when global temperatures have been stable or declining. In fact, in at least the last seven years, global temperatures have declined, despite increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide,” Wynn wrote.
— Todd Wynn | “the earth is currently cooling” June 22, 2009 at the Oregon Catalyst
I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no choice. And I tell you how many scientists support that. But the number of scientists is not important. The only thing that's important is if the scientists are correct; that's the important part.
— Ivar Giaever, a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist
Please remain calm. The earth will heal itself. Climate is beyond our power to control. The earth doesn't care about government and legislation. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something the earth does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.
— Dr. Robert Laughlin, a Nobel Prize-winning Stanford University physicist
It is possible … we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of this climate itself,
This would require more, not less, government “for energy production, for fuel efficiency, for reforestation,”
— Margaret Thatcher | The Downing Street Years. New York: HarperCollins, 1993, p. 641.
Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
— Richard Lindzen | American atmospheric physicist
It’s not a hoax, but it’s not proven science either...
But you don’t dismantle America’s power and energy on a maybe. We need to be energy independent first. We need to do it better, which we can, but it is not a settled science.
— Ryan Zinke | American politician and businessman | Oct. 2014
The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.
— IPCC | Working Group 1: The Scientific Basis
The report clearly shows that the technologies assumed to populate the clean energy shift—wind, solar, hydrogen, and electricity systems—are in fact significantly MORE material intensive in their composition than current traditional fossil-fuel-based energy supply systems.
— World Bank | Report: The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future