...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

Love without pain is like the earth without rain.It wouldn't be the same, it would die to quickly and people would be helpless

The mind gives birth to tangibility

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

For the Warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.