13+ Roy Spencer Quotes On Climate Change

Roy Spencer is an American scientist and meteorologist who is best known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work. He is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and is the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite. He is a prominent global warming skeptic and has written several books on the subject. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Roy Spencer on climate change.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help. — Roy Spencer

We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens. — Roy Spencer

I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government. — Roy Spencer

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems. — Roy Spencer

Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too? — Roy Spencer

We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations. — Roy Spencer

I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world. — Roy Spencer

It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.' — Roy Spencer

All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right. — Roy Spencer

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished. — Roy Spencer

Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change. — Roy Spencer

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem. — Roy Spencer

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming. — Roy Spencer

Life Lessons by Roy Spencer

1. Roy Spencer's work has shown that climate change is a complex process, and that the effects of human activity on the climate are not as straightforward as previously thought.
2. His research has highlighted the need for more accurate models of climate change, and for better understanding of the role of natural variability in climate change.
3. His work has also emphasized the importance of considering all available data when making decisions about climate change policy, as well as the need for more accurate and reliable measurements of the climate system.