Chris Mooney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
-- Chris Mooney

#Weather #Climate #Events
The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?
-- Chris Mooney

#Writing #Perspective #Holocaust
We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get are open outside shots. You're going to have to make some of them.
-- Chris Mooney

#Owl #Impossible #Shots
We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
-- Chris Mooney

#Pain #Fighting #Data
Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way. Anyone who cares about the climate issue must read his fascinating--and enraging--story.
-- Chris Mooney

#Warrior #Issues #Important
Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.
-- Chris Mooney

#Falling In Love #Ideas #Peers
I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I think that, depending on who that president is, it can have a significant influence on the trajectory.
-- Chris Mooney

#Thinking #Trying #President
I think, domestically, one of the most interesting things that you would see under Presidenr Hillary Clinton is going to be the big energy infrastructure transition.
-- Chris Mooney

#Thinking #Interesting #Energy
One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.
-- Chris Mooney

#Technology #Years #United States
Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge installations of wind and solar in places like Africa. These things are going to happen no matter what. They're going to happen for largely non-policy free market reasons even in the United States.
-- Chris Mooney

#Wind #Energy #United States
The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.
-- Chris Mooney

#Country #Important #Together

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