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"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."
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"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
"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."
"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation."
"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."
"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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