If it is freezing cold – “That is just an extreme weather event”.

But if it is a heat wave – “That is more evidence of global warming”.

Viv Forbes, Rosevale, Qld, Australia.

ETS is about changing behaviour.
We should plant more trees, drive trucks less and stop raising so many farm animals.
Big Nanny said so.
She forgot to say “stop exhaling”!

Gary Kerkin
New Zealand

“Man-made CO2 is only 0.001152% part of the atmosphere!! It should be clear to everybody that such a futile quantity can NEVER be cause of global warming.”

F. Eckenhuijsen Smit (Dutch national, living in Spain since 1968)

“We can do without coal, and we can do without coal seam gas…”

Bob Brown, Leader of the Greens, Australia, on ABC 29 June 2010, audio
link on http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201006/s2939707.htm

“As things now stand, the advocates representing the establishment climate science story broadcast (usually with color diagrams) the predictions of climate models as if they were the results of experiments – actual evidence. Alongside these multi-colored multi-century model-simulated time series come stories, anecdotes, and photos – such as the iconic stranded polar bear – dramatically illustrating climate change today. On this rhetorical strategy, the models are to be taken on faith, and the stories and photos as evidence of the models’ truth. Policy carrying potential costs in the trillions of dollars ought not to be based on stories and photos confirming faith in models, but rather on precise and replicable testing of the models’ predictions against solid observational data.”

Jason Scott Johnson of the University of Pennsylvania Law School for the Institute for Law and Economics, a Joint Research Center of the Law School with the Wharton School of Economics. Report: http://www.probeinternational.org/UPennCross.pdf [PDF, 399KB]

“Anything we do as a nation will in itself have little impact on the climate. Our impact will be symbolic, moral and political”.

Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of New Zealand.

“One hopes that science will prevail. It is the only way people can prevent the climate alarmists, backed by the media and the state, from carrying out their plan to ‘save the planet’.

“If not stopped, they will eventually establish global governance; dismantle modern technology; cripple industry; impose carbon rationing with radical reductions in the average American’s standard of living and quality of life; and inflict untold misery, suffering, and death for hundreds of millions of people around the world.”

Dr Donald W Miller (Dr Miller is a prominent cardiologist and Professor in Washington State, Seattle, USA).

“If the science is so conclusive, strong and settled, why worry about so called ‘skeptics’ disproving it, as this should not be possible?”

Rick Dean

“For while man cannot live by bread alone, he must have the bread before other things can become real. Civilisation is born of leisure, and leisure can come only after the crop has been harvested.”

Louis L’Amour, “Killoe”, 1962.

Hon Dr Nick Smith

New Zealand Minister for the Environment and Minister for Climate Change Issues