Climate change Quote by David Douglass

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a…

— Jamais Cascio

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data…

— David Douglass

It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are…

— Gavin Schmidt

The increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect. Our ability to predict that effect is very limited.

— Rex W. Tillerson

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

— Ted Baillieu

The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere…

— Martin Rees

“Santer and his colleagues have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between these two…

— Naomi Oreskes

In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe…

— Ivar Giaever

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

— Freeman Dyson

“People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful, adding,…our approach is not entirely empirical. —John Mitchell, principal research scientist at…

— Alan Carlin

“But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space,…

— Nate Silver

“I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of…

— Bill McKibben