"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."

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"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."

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"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."

Attention, Needs

"Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy."

Time, Energy, Global warming, Now

"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation."

Work, Drinking, First, Water

"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide."

Doubt, Sun

"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."

People, Impression, Being, Information

"Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left."

Argument, Arguments, Right, Wrong

"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."

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"A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph."

Nature, Arguments, Word

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things."

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"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."

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"The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt."

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"The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical."

Mark L. Campbell, American Scientist

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"The data which is used to date for making the conclusions and predictions on global warming are so rough and primitive, compared to what's needed, and so unreliable that they are not even worth mentioning by respectful scientists."

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"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist

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"On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world."

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist

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"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist

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