Intergovernmental Panel Quotes

#1. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

Steven F. Hayward

#2. The climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims - so much lower, in fact, that the warming we would expect from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be quite modest and offer very little risk.

Kenneth P. Green

#3. On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.

Robert Bryce

#4. No one ever does anything but what he wants to do - 'enjoys' - within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

Harold S. Kushner

#6. I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.

Jack Fleck

#7. I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Rosie Thomas

#8. The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Alice Walker

#10. Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Tom Sizemore

#11. To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. It's not how big you are, it's how big you play

John Wooden

#13. The hedges and driveways were black and silent, but he imagined the silhouette of a jacket hood could move into view at any time, skimming past the light of a window like a shark's fin.

Teresa Flavin

#14. What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William Golding

#15. I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

Rachel Platten

#16. Is it from your cheek that I took the seed?

Markus Zusak

#17. I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't really have an accurate or comprehensive understanding of what it is - by proudly identifying as a feminist.

Julie Zeilinger