Alarmists Quotes

Tony Blair probably felt that action on greenhouse gases was an open and shut case when, early in 2005, he named it one of his central issues for the year. Now that he has had a chance to look at the issue in detail, he has realized it isn't as simple as the global warming alarmists like to say it is. The economic case against [seeking] drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is overwhelming. - Iain Murray

This is a standard tactic of alarmists -- to search a huge literature to find a small number of studies that, due to small sample sizes, poor methodology or just random chance, arrive at findings contradicting the rest of the literature. - Jay Lehr

This is a minor correction of three-hundredths of a degree, concentrated in the tropics. The satellite data still suggest warming well below the levels the alarmists trumpet. Real-world data, as opposed to theoretical models, continue to point to a modest warming that humanity can easily adapt to. - Iain Murray

They're trying not to be alarmists. They receive calls all the time, and 99 percent of them turn out to be nothing, or turn out to be something else. And what happens is they become hardened over time. - David J. Dausey

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

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. - William F. Buckley Jr.

It's more of a victory lap. Literally a month ago people were arguing that prices would not stop going up. Now, data we would have killed for two years ago is seen as the end of the world. But alarmists on both sides of this thing have been shown to be wrong. - Steven Wieting