Richard Lindzen: Cool it on the climate
Posted: December 5, 2013 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Climate Changes, Climate History, Climate science, Consensus, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Global Temperature, Govt Climate Agenda, Science | Tags: Climate rationalist, Richard Lindzen, US Senate Testimony Leave a comment“We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public’s imagination…
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts…
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest.“
– Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy.“
– Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
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Re-pressed via Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog :
Professor Richard S. Lindzen, arguably the world’s most prominent climate scientist, testifies to the US House Committee on Science and Technology:
I will simply try to clarify what the debate over climate change is really about. It most certainly is not about whether climate is changing: it always is. It is not about whether CO2 is increasing: it clearly is. It is not about whether the increase in CO2, by itself, will lead to some warming: it should. The debate is simply over the matter of how much warming the increase in CO2 can lead to, and the connection of such warming to the innumerable claimed catastrophes.
The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal. The arguments on which the catastrophic claims are made are extremely weak – and commonly acknowledged as such….
Current global warming alarm hardly represents a plausible proposition. Twenty years of repetition and escalation of claims does not make it more plausible. Quite the contrary, the failure to improve the case over 20 years makes the case even less plausible as does the evidence from climategate and other instances of overt cheating.
In the meantime, while I avoid making forecasts for tenths of a degree change in globally averaged temperature anomaly, I am quite willing to state that unprecedented climate catastrophes are not on the horizon though in several thousand years we may return to an ice age.
But this is about faith, not reason.
UPDATE
Still waiting for more warming. The UAH temperatures, updated now for November:
Richard Lindzen: Cool it on the climate | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog.
Global Warming: How to approach the science – Testimony Richard Lindzen 2010 – Via WattsUpWithThat
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- Bureaucratic Dioxide | CACA (Richard Lindzen)
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