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Category:Earth is Warming
Bite"2010 was the hottest and wettest -- don't Google that phrase, by the way -- year on record."—Bill Maher
Category:Skepticism/Denial - General
Bite"When I was six years old, there were conflicting theories about how babies were born. Somebody said a stork brought them. Another guy said your parents bought them at the hospital. Another said girls had some kind of flap between their legs that babies came out of, and something about penises.
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Category:Greenhouse Effect
BiteIn earth's past, CO2 rise lagged temperature, so CO2 can't possibly cause global warming? This is like saying "'I saw a chicken lay an egg. That proves chickens don't come from eggs.'"
— Dr. Richard Alley
Category:Food & Agriculture
BiteSign photographed on in the middle of Main Street, in Bison, Kansas on July 23, 2011 during the record-breaking drought.
Category:Science & Uncertainty
BiteOh really, what is your evidence? Many people are confused about the definition of the word 'theory,' especially with climate change.
Category:Science & Uncertainty
BiteModels are unreliable. I agree -- they are often late for photo shoots, and sometimes never show up at all!
Category:Who to Believe?
BiteDo you greet your plumber with this skepticism: “Yeah, right! You’re just gonna snake that little thing down there and it’s gonna clear up the problem? Sure. And I’m supposed to believe that?”
Category:Oil & Coal Dependency
Bite"If you like buying oil from the Saudis, you'll love buying solar from the Chinese!"— Thomas Friedman
Category:Skepticism/Denial - General
BiteBlaming Exxon "is like blaming a raccoon for going through your trash. They’re simply responding to available opportunities." Their "multi-billion dollar investment" in Arctic seabed exploration "is predicated on Exxon’s belief that the planet is warming. . . is one of the most powerful admissions...
Category:Skepticism/Denial - General
Bite"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." -- Mark Twain
"Call Me Cleopatra, 'Cause I'm the Queen of Denial"
-- country-western song by Pam Tillis
Category:Hope & Strategies
Bite“Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly”—Woody Allen.
Category:Terms & Communication
Bite"It should be possible to write about science in plain English, though asking a scientist to do that is like asking a cat to bark."— Dr. Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report.
Category:Who to Believe?
Bite"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."—Carl Sagan
Category:Who to Believe?
BiteThe formula for false media balance is: Add one truth plus one lie, then divide by two.
Variation: Accuracy is not achieved by "adding a lie to the truth and dividing by two."
Category:Who to Believe?
BiteCalling him [an oil lobbyist] a serious source on climate is like calling a fox a "serious" protector of the hen house.
Category:Rebuttals - specifc
Bite"Blaming La Nina for the record drought is like blaming the car engine for the speeding ticket. See what happens when the driver steps on the gas?" - Hunter Cutting, Director of Strategic Communications at Climate Nexus
Category:Rebuttals - specifc
Bite‘People ask me: Is there a pause in global warming? My response: paws are for kittens & puppies. Global warming is still increasing.’ - Joshua Willis NASA Climate Scientist
Category:Skepticism/Denial - General
Bite"It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant, and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting."
Category:Skepticism/Denial - General
BiteImagine your radiologist pointing to a spot on your lung x-ray, which several top oncologists have agreed shows cancer.. Would you say, 'I don't believe in surgery. So that can't possibly be a tumor'?
Variation: '...so that tumor must be a hoax!"