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"As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."
"We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society."
"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
"What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time."
"When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories."
""not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming"."
"A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed."
"In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right."
"Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules."
"I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that."
"The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests"
"Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization."
"The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets."
"Global warming my gluteus maximus"
"I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?""
"Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist."
"The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned."
"Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere."
"Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse."
"Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it."