The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.
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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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