Meteorologist Quotes

Alfred Wegener

Jean-André Deluc

Beno Gutenberg

Roger A. Pielke

John Park Finley

James Pollard Espy

After considerable and sometimes animated in-house discussion of the demise of Ivan...

A woman rang to say she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, don't worry, there isn't.

Acid rain is a short-hand term that covers a set of highly complex and controversial environmental problems. It is a subject in which emotive and political judgements tend to obscure the underlying scientific issues which are fairly easily stated but poorly understood.

Basil John Mason

The claim by the IPCC that an imposed climate forcing (such as added atmospheric concentrations of CO2) can work through the parameterizations involved in the atmospheric, land, ocean and continental ice sheet components of the climate model to create skillful global and regional forecasts decades from now is a remarkable statement. That the IPCC states that this is a 'much more easily solved problem than forecasting weather patterns just weeks from now' is clearly a ridiculous scientific claim.

Roger A. Pielke

You would think that we'd know the Earth's 'climate sensitivity' by now, but it has been surprisingly difficult to determine. How atmospheric processes like clouds and precipitation systems respond to warming is critical, as they are either amplifying the warming, or reducing it. This website currently concentrates on the response of clouds to warming, an issue which I am now convinced the scientific community has totally misinterpreted when they have measured natural, year-to-year fluctuations in the climate system. As a result of that confusion, they have the mistaken belief that climate sensitivity is high, when in fact the satellite evidence suggests climate sensitivity is low.

The first concept of continental drift first came to me as far back as 1910, when considering the map of the world, under the direct impression produced by the congruence of the coastlines on either side of the Atlantic. At first I did not pay attention to the idea because I regarded it as improbable.

A considerable obstruction to the real advancement of science, the progress of which is much less retarded by ignorance than by error.

Jean-André Deluc

The people of the United States are no longer strangers to that dreaded aerial monster, the Tornado.

John Park Finley

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.

James Pollard Espy

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.

The books and papers dealing with hypotheses on the development of the earth's crust are as the sands of the seas.

The tides are the heartbeat of the ocean, a pulse that can be felt all over the world.