From about 1940 to 1980 it was cooling.

Between about 1908 to 1940 the world was warming, then from about 1940 to 1980 it was cooling, now it’s slightly warming again. So what? […] If it was warming between 1908 and 1940, what was happening then?

The way this debate works, Chris, is they work on a division of labor theory. They say “very smart people say the world is warming, and if you say anything different you’re a fool”. And people generally go: “Oh, well, I don’t have the time to actually research it, so I’ll just sit back and say nothing and I’ll agree with them, because agreeing is a very safe place to be, even though I have the sneaking suspicion that what they say is not correct, because I don’t feel the world is coming to a catastrophic end. I just feel that this is just another one of those pitches […] Western society always has, to come up with some disaster; something we’ve got to be scared of; something that we’ve apparently got to fix up right now, and the way we fix it up is by paying a certain group of people a lot of money.” That’s generally how it works.

The models that the IPC (sic) put up are wrong. What they initially put up were wrong. The calamity that was supposed to happen, when you look at the modeling process, is not correct.

Because it’s warming by an extremely small amount there’s virtually nothing you can do about it, and definitely nothing you can do about it from Australia by yourself, except stuff up your economy.

What [John Christy is] saying is, basically, if it’s warming it’s warming by an extremely small amount.