Alarmists Quotes

• The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

  Daniel Botkin

  People, Historical, Our Society

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• It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Kyoto Protocol, People

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• In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Moving, Views, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Years, England, Environmentalist

  "The Doomslaye" by Ed Regis, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  House, Community, Politics

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• Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

  Walter Cunningham

  Data, Trying, Earth

  "Politics Outweigh Science In Global Warming Debate". www.heartland.org. June 5, 2010.

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• The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

  James Lovelock

  Climate, Usual, World

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• Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  Ted Cruz

  Earth, Today, Global Warming

  "Ted Cruz: ‘Global Warming Alarmists Are The Equivalent Of The Flat-Earthers’" by Kate Sheppard, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2015.

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• We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Should Have

  "Scientist cools on climate alarmism". www.theaustralian.com.au. April 26, 2012.

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• We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

  Stephen Schneider

  Libertarian Party, Scary, Doubt

  "Apocalypse Abuse and 'Climate Doomism'" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 13, 2017.

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• Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

  Ian Plimer

  Book, Climate, Computer

  "Heaven and Earth". Book by Ian Plimer, 2009.

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• Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.

  Pat Sajak

  Racist, Global Warming, Ends

  'Pat Sajak: “global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists”' by Jason Somenow, www.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2014.

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• I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Worry, Democracy

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• The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Years

  "'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Should Have, Years, Twelve

  "Climate change alarmist warnings all hot air, says British scientist James Lovelock". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. April 24, 2012.

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• The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.

  James Lovelock

  World, Millennium

  "Climate change alarmist warnings all hot air, says British scientist James Lovelock" by Gemma Jones, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. April 24, 2012.

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Kyoto Protocol, Issues, Environmental

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• Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery.

  Margo Kaufman

  Cutting, Together, Fireplaces

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• I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, House, Facts

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.151, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Imagination, England, Ifs

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.38, Granta Books

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• I'm here to encourage everyone to look at the data themselves, not just buy what they're told. I find that my standards for science are more important to me than anything else, and I hate to see them being depreciated by the alarmists' claims today. Politics and the media and what have you have allowed us now to be facing one of the biggest scientific hoaxes in history. That's what's being pushed on us.

  Walter Cunningham

  Hate, Media, Data

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• NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2. This information, contrary to the assumption used in all the warming models, is ignored by global warming alarmists.

  Walter Cunningham

  Aqua, Water, Information

  "In Science, Ignorance is not Bliss". waltercunningham.com.

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• And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Data, Years

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• But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.

  John H. Sununu

  Ambition, Waiting, Growth

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