"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

Mark Twain.

"There is not such thing as consensus science. If it's a consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't a consensus. Period. The greatest scientists in the world are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."

Environmentalism has alread killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s."
Michael Crichton, Science writer and author 'State of Fear'.

"Governments will lose elections over this issue. From a policy perspective it is a situation where you can only lose because any government will be faced with the reality that their policies don't match the rhetoric. Where does that leave policy-makers?

It leaves them looking very exposed. But that's the price you pay for exaggerating a risk that you actually cannot address. Politicians have cornered themselves. They have dug themselves into such a hole that there is no way out."
Dr Benny Peiser, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, November 2006