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"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."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."

"The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened."

"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."

"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"

"Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families."
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"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."

"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."

"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."

"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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