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

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 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!

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.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!

I know you have been waiting on hold for 40 minutes, but I can't answer your question.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.