Steve Goreham > Quotes

“Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.118”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“Marsh and Svensmark postulated that a high level of sunspot activity reduces the level of cosmic rays and therefore reduces the level of low-level cloudiness, resulting in an increase in global temperatures.”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” —Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and John Holdren (1970)4”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“But since the beginning of our new century, global temperatures have been flat to declining, despite the continuing rise in CO2. None of the 20 climate models that the IPCC relies on predicted the declining temperature trends of the last ten years. Is something else at work here?”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.” —Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, Lead Author (2010)105”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“It is estimated that the EU would need to convert about 70% of its agricultural land to provide 10% of its energy need.”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“Musician and vegetarian Paul McCartney has called on the world to adopt “Meat-Free Monday.”69 The idea is to forego meat at least one day per week to fight climate change.”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs…We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.” —Mike Hulme, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and IPCC Lead Author (2009)51”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“The size of the “needed” transition to renewables is staggering. The world used more than 20,000 terawatt-hours of electricity19 in 2010, and the 160,000 installed wind turbines provided only about 350 of those terawatthours,”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“The next year, British swimmer and ecologist Lewis Gordon Pugh set out from the northern island of Spitzbergen to kayak 1,200 km to the North Pole. His journey was intended to raise awareness about the melting arctic ice. But he was forced to stop after only 135 kilometers (km), blocked by arctic sea ice.”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

“The presenter was incredulous and asked Folland to repeat his statement so that the entire audience could hear, and Folland again said, ‘The data don’t matter…we’re not basing our recommendations upon the data; we’re basing them upon the climate models.’” —Chris Folland, UK Meteorological Office (1991)32”
― Steve Goreham, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism