A recent weather network article made outlandish claims about man-made climate change, including that average summer temperatures in Ottawa would rise from 20 to 27 degrees Centigrade by 2200 unless by giving up fossil fuels we limited it to 24 degrees. How does one counter such outlandish claims?

"Only through scrutiny of the past can society descry the limitations of human nature.”

Russel Kirk The Conservative Mind

“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”

Aristotle The Politics

“If you want to succeed, it would be wise for you to choose your beliefs carefully, rather than walking around like a piece of flypaper, picking up whichever belief sticks.”

Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power

Queen Victoria: "You are a genius.” Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann: "Perhaps, Your Majesty, but before that I was a drudge."

Clifton Fadiman, ed, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News January 13, 1906, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7

"You couldn’t get me there with a box of candy or a ton of dynamite."

Then-premier of Saskatchewan Roy Romanow on running for federal office, quoted in Maclean’s June 12, 1995