Their inspirational story nicely illustrates the similarities between climate change scepticism and Pascal's famous wager about the existence of God, and it goes a bit like this:

He is also known for the famous Simon-Ehrlich wager, a bet he made with ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich.

Julian L. Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered in a famous scientific wager in 1980, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990.

Two period illustrations depict a famous wager in which, after Bright's death, seven fully grown men proved they could easily fit inside his old waistcoat "without breaking a stitch or straining a button."

In Pascal's case, the famous wager; for Leibniz, the invention of binary computation; and for Kepler, the intervention of angels to guide the planets.

This bet was admitted by both parties to be a good-natured resurrection of the same spirit and tradition behind the famous Simon-Ehrlich wager which spanned the years 1980-1990.

Faust makes the famous wager with the Devil that will allow Mephistopheles to collect his soul if Faust loses.

Holdren was involved in the famous Simon-Ehrlich wager in 1980.

Blaise Pascal invoked it in his famous wager (see below), which is contained in his Pensées, published in 1670.

Mrs. Diamond's most famous philanthropic wager involved investing $25 million to create the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center.