Global warming

For

• "There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know -- except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics," said D. James Baker, administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's."
  • Warrick, Joby. “Consensus Emerges Earth Is Warming – Now What?” Washington Post 12 Nov. 1997: A01.

• "The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now."
  • Louis Proyect, Columbia University

Against

• "All this concern with the effects of global warming is another manifestation of being politically correct"
  
  • Lord Young of Graffham, in a letter to The Times, 28th Nov 2000.

• "Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple."
  • Kary Mullis, Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• "The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity. "
  • Piers Corbyn, Weather Action bulletin, December 2000.

• "The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming"
  • Professor Kirill Kondratyev, Russian Academy of Sciences 2003-10-12

• "Global warming — at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not."
  • Professor David Bellamy, Daily Mail, July 2004

• "The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any significant reduction in CO2 emissions by the United States will significantly reduce its economic output, thereby bringing it closer to the inferior output of European nations. Environmental advocacy groups work to stifle economic and industrial progress wherever they find it to inhibit the successful advancement of peoples in developing nations, inevitably making mankind a second class citizen of planet Earth.
  • Dr. Jay Lehr, science director, The Heartland Institute, 2004-11-19

• "Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science."
  • Dr Martin Keeley, Visiting Professor in Petroleum Geology, University College London, 2004-12-06. [BBC]