Don Aitkin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is much stronger.
-- Don Aitkin

#Ocean #Historical #Stronger
Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.
-- Don Aitkin

#Grandchildren #Ice #Sea
How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.
-- Don Aitkin

#Data #Quality #Climate
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.
-- Don Aitkin

#Media #Data #People
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
-- Don Aitkin

#Cynical #Democracy #Election

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.
Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment itâ€™s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.
Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.
An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Don Aitkin famous quotes

You may also like: