Harrison Schmitt Professions : Geologist Born : July 3, 1935 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Harrison Schmitt It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. Harrison Schmitt first-love trying children But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space. Harrison Schmitt technology moon thinking Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. Harrison Schmitt bears facts art The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities. Harrison Schmitt political government decision As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. Harrison Schmitt data government ties Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Today's Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people. Harrison Schmitt government rights believe I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect. Harrison Schmitt climate natural thinking It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today. Harrison Schmitt mars live-for-today parent Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming. Harrison Schmitt global-warming climate facts In Antarctica, it looks like the total volume (of ice) is increasing and if that's true, that's probably why you're getting increased ice moving away from the center of the continent and therefore these big icebergs and stuff are breaking off. Harrison Schmitt ice looks moving [T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement. Harrison Schmitt environmental champion liberty Similar Authors Archibald Geikie geologist Alfred Harker geologist Bernhard von Cotta geologist Douglas Mawson geologist Ian Plimer geologist Hugh Miller geologist All Authors
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