The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." And, "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Menken
We just need Anne Elk’s Theory on Climate Change
The data don't matter. We're not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We're basing them upon the climate models.
Chris Folland (UK Meteorological Office)
http://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html
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