'A summertime forecast of Atlantic dust cover may be a useful aid in predicting seasonal hurricane activity...climate variability and change are dominated by regional climate forcings and feedbacks, NOT a global average surface temperature trend'

'Because such attribution is not possible, this makes the entire policy basis of the fund flawed'

'For a million years, humans have been using the warming periods to advance civilization' -- 'Massive drought—driven by a 'little ice age' — lasted 300 years!

'Droughts were the real weather killers, but thanks to green revolution in 1970s, people are far less likely to starve amid droughts. That revolution depended on fertilizers made from oil, writes Goklany, and irrigation, largely driven by fossil-fueled pumps, overcomes drought'