To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.