Gavin Schmidt Quotes

Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and co-founder of the award-winning climate science blog RealClimate.

The data shows quite clearly that it's the greenhouse gas trends that are responsible for the majority of the trends.

Gavin Schmidt
- Responsible
- Data
- Gas
If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

Gavin Schmidt
- Work
- Models
- Critic

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases...

Gavin Schmidt
- Change
- Weather
- Climate
You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

Gavin Schmidt
It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.

Gavin Schmidt
It’s the whole or it’s nothing.

Gavin Schmidt
- Nothing
- Whole