Skepticism/Denial - General
Some skeptics view climate science as a house of cards. You pull one card from the bottom and the whole thing collapses. But science is mo ...
"Skepticism is invaluable to the scientific method. But an honest skeptic can be persuaded by facts. These deniers are largely impervious to ...
"When I was six years old, there were conflicting theories about how babies were born. Somebody said a stork brought them. Another guy said ...
Would you trust Joe Camel to teach science to your children? Even lifelong smokers don't want Joe near their kids. The tobacco industry pi ...
If you can find a way to scientifically debunk climate change, you can be rich and famous. Just beware that many scientists before you have ...
If you want to find the truth, hire a detective (or scientist). If you just want to win, hire a lawyer (or PR firm).
Suppose you saw a dead body in a crime scene. Would you believe a police detective who says, 'A ghost did it!' when there's evidence everyw ...
"Mother Nature is just chemistry, biology and physics. That's all she is. You cannot sweet-talk her. You cannot spin her. You cannot tell he ...
Blaming Exxon "is like blaming a raccoon for going through your trash. They’re simply responding to available opportunities." Their "multi ...
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." -- Mark Twain
"Call Me Cleopatra, 'Cause I'm the Queen of Denial" -- country-wes ...
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -- James Baldwin
"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth, despite our best efforts to avoid it."
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Partial evidence can be very misleading. Remember the "blind men feeling an elephant" allegory? One feels a leg and says it's a tree. Anot ...
Who amongst us hasn't delayed opening a bill or bank statement, because we want to postpone reading the unpleasant news?
I am skeptical we can keep burning fossil fuels with a business as usual mentality without harming the planet.
"When it comes to climate change, true skepticism is two-sided. One-sided skepticism is no skepticism at all." —Michael Mann. ...
"We desperately want to believe that big problems are overblown or nonexistent. Whenever a group of people 'desperately wants to believe' s ...
Saying 'I hate government regulation, therefore global warming is a hoax,' is akin to saying 'I hate shots, therefore the flu doesn't exist. ...
"If ten people told you your house was on fire, you would call the fire department. You wouldn’t really care whether some of them thought th ...
"Ok, but its going to get expensive real quick," responds my friend, Scott, a car mechanic. The science of climate change is very similar.. ...
When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.
A corollary: Show me a problem that is obviously not "a nail" an ...
It's hard to change habits, especially when the most harmful consequences lie in the distant future. Try convincing a teenager to stop smok ...
All scientists are skeptics. The motto of UK's 350-year-old Royal Society is 'Nullius in verba,' Latin for "On the words of no one" or "tak ...
Question: "What is the single most important piece of evidence supporting global warming theory?" Answer: "What is the single strand th ...
"The evidence for climate change is not a house of cards, where you take one piece out and the whole theory falls apart. It's more like a mo ...
97 of 100 doctors recommend quick action to correct your child's serious abnormalities revealed by tests. One doctor says the child seems ...
Debate is a contest of orators; Science is a contest of evidence.
"It may not be common sense, but if common sense were good enough, we wouldn't need science."
Skepticism = looking at all the evidence before drawing a conclusion. Denial = rejecting any evidence that does not support your preferred, ...
"It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant, and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting."
Keystone XL pipeline is not the most destructive. The worst pipeline runs from Wall St. to Capitol Hill, via K St. It gushes money, no ...
'First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.'
Imagine your radiologist pointing to a spot on your lung x-ray, which several top oncologists have agreed shows cancer.. Would you say, 'I ...
'Or if the sun revolves around the earth?' Climate Scientist Michael E. Mann's response to the statement that climate change is a hoax.
100 years ago, Titanic's Captain Smith steamed ahead full speed, despite iceberg warnings. By time the fatal 'berg was visible, it ...
When you've built a great wall of evidence it takes more than a brick coming loose to bring the whole lot down.
"Carbon offsets...are like pushing your food around your plate to give the impression you've eaten it."
"If you question the numbers, just ask the plants."— Andy Extance, Simple Climate.
It is easier to argue for the existence of Santa Claus than argue against all the evidence of climate change.— a scientist at Washington Uni ...
Some skeptics conflate 'uncertainty' with 'ignorance'. This is the idea that because scientists are uncertain about some aspect [of climate ...
Continuing to burn fossil fuels in order to maintain the growth economy is like keeping on drinking to avoid a hangover.
"Saying climate change is not real is like saying, 'the sun may not be real because it got dark last night." - comedian Bill Maher
Who amongst us has not delayed opening a bank or credit card statement because we don't want to be reminded of the unpleasant news it contai ...
Science denial and politicization occurs whenever some influential group sees a new discovery as threatening to their worldview, values, st ...
"I really, really deplore the politicisation and polarisation of this issue" [global warming]. "There are these increasingly unprincipled at ...
There is no such thing as a free lunch. If there is, you might get food poisoning.
'You can't wake a person who is pretending to sleep'—Oromo saying, Ethiopia
Climate change is like one of those Hollywood disaster movies that pit obstructionists against ordinary people who become heroes. Those movi ...