Hendrik Tennekes famous quotes

03-28-2025

The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.
-- Hendrik Tennekes

#Climate #Growing #Body
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached.
-- Hendrik Tennekes

#Home #Sea #Ideas
The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.
-- Hendrik Tennekes

#Village #Boeing #Boeing 747
Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind.
-- Hendrik Tennekes

#Wind #Mirages #Green
Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
-- Hendrik Tennekes

#Dream #Nobel #Mishaps

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.
What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
I'm young. I'm 22. I'm still growing. I just feel like it's time for me to go up. After this fight, there really wouldn't be a reason for me to stay. I'm just going to go up and give the lightweights hell.
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Hendrik Tennekes famous quotes

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