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> [“The fact that an astronomer knows so little about the inherent uncertainties in different scientific disciplines suggests to me that our current crop of pop-science icons should be largely ignored for information outside their specific areas of expertise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/the-fact-that-an-astronomer-knows-so-little-about-the-inherent/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

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## More by Roy Spencer

> [Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/nature-is-not-static-but-causes-its-own-internally-generated-changes/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been settled, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/politicians-and-some-of-the-scientists-like-to-say-that-there-s-a/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/contrary-to-popular-accounts-very-few-scientists-in-the-world/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/it-is-well-known-that-strong-to-violent-tornado-activity-in-the-us/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [“One of the large uncertainties about climate change is the extent to which it changes naturally. This dirty little secret is usually swept under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/one-of-the-large-uncertainties-about-climate-change-is-the-extent-to/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [“The fact that an astronomer knows so little about the inherent uncertainties in different scientific disciplines suggests to me that our current crop of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/the-fact-that-an-astronomer-knows-so-little-about-the-inherent/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/believe-it-or-not-very-little-research-has-ever-been-funded-to-search/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/all-scientists-should-be-skeptics-the-reason-why-is-that-even-with/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/al-gore-likes-to-say-that-mankind-puts-70-million-tons-of-carbon/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/i-would-wager-that-my-job-has-helped-save-our-economy-from-the/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [ We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. \[...\] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/we-have-no-idea-what-s-natural-and-what-s-man-made-there-is-no/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/we-are-now-at-the-point-in-the-age-of-global-warming-hysteria-where/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/temperature-measurements-in-the-arctic-suggest-that-it-was-just-as/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/twice-i-have-testified-in-congress-that-unbiased-funding-on-the/)

[Roy Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-spencer/)

> [I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-spencer/i-finally-became-convinced-that-the-theory-of-creation-actually-had-a/)

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