Craig D. Idso > Quotes

“CO2 cannot be the primary forcing agent for most temperature changes.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“evidence is lacking that a 2°C increase in temperature (of whatever cause) would be globally harmful.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Best available data show sea-level rise is not accelerating.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“The alarmist view, advocated by the Obama administration and environmental extremists,”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Evidence is accruing that changes in Earth’s surface temperature are largely driven by variations in solar activity.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“There is no scientific consensus on global warming.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“In contradiction of the scientific method, IPCC assumes its implicit hypothesis is correct and that its only duty is to collect evidence and make plausible arguments in the hypothesis’s favor.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“IPCC ignores mounting evidence that climate sensitivity to CO2 is much lower than its models assume”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“models should therefore not be used to guide public policy formulation until they have been validated and shown to have predictive value.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Fundamental uncertainties arise from insufficient observational evidence,”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“changes in temperature precede parallel changes in atmospheric CO2 by several hundred years;”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Melting of Arctic sea ice and polar icecaps is not occurring at “unnatural” rates and does not constitute evidence of a human impact on climate.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“But true science is never “settled,” and true scientists are always eager to ask and answer questions.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“The weight of evidence now leans heavily against the theory.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Invoking the precautionary principle does not lower the required threshold for evidence to be regarded as valid, nor does it answer the most important questions about the causes and consequences of climate change.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“Rather than invest scarce world resources in a quixotic campaign based on politicized and unreliable science, world leaders would do well to turn their attention to the real problems their people and their planet face.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“GCMs systematically over-estimate the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“herding, subjects the scientific community to an inherent risk of converging on an incorrect answer and raises the possibility that, under certain conditions, science may not be self-correcting.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“peer review is no guarantee of the accuracy or value of a research paper.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), created to find and disseminate research finding a human impact on global climate, is not a credible source. It is agenda-driven, a political rather than scientific body, and some allege it is corrupt.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“The climate change debate resembles the famous tale of a group of blind men touching various parts of an elephant, each arriving at a very different idea of what it is like:”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“IPCC’s third false postulate is that increases in atmospheric CO2 precede, and then force, parallel increases in temperature.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“IPCC models do not incorporate important solar factors such as fluctuations in magnetic intensity and overestimate the role of human-related CO2 forcing.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“The Sun may have contributed as much as 66 percent of the observed twentieth century warming, and perhaps more.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“* * * We conclude no unambiguous evidence exists for adverse changes to the global environment caused by human-related CO2 emissions. In particular, the cryosphere is not melting at an enhanced rate; sea-level rise is not accelerating; no systematic changes have been documented in evaporation or rainfall or in the magnitude or intensity of extreme meteorological events; and an increased release of methane into the atmosphere from permafrost”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“GCMs perform poorly when their projections are assessed against empirical data.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“·        Rather than rely exclusively on IPCC for scientific advice, policymakers should seek out advice from independent, nongovernment organizations and scientists who are free of financial and political conflicts of interest.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus