Posted on 12/04/2004 6:32:55 AM PST by worldclass
An MIT meteorologist Wednesday dismissed alarmist fears about human induced global warming as nothing more than 'religious beliefs.'
"Do you believe in global warming? That is a religious question. So is the second part: Are you a skeptic or a believer?" said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, in a speech to about 100 people at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Recent reports of a melting polar ice cap were dismissed by Lindzen as an example of the media taking advantage of the public's "scientific illiteracy."
"The thing you have to remember about the Arctic is that it is an extremely variable part of the world," Lindzen said. "Although there is melting going [on] now, there has been a lot of melting that went on in the [19]30s and then there was freezing. So by isolating a section ... they are essentially taking people's ignorance of the past," he added.
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How long before the lefties at MIT make sure this guy loses his job I wonder.
Southern California is at 600% of its annual average for this time of year. Two weeks ago, the snow level hit 800 ft.
Our temperatures have been 10-15 degrees below normal for the past three weeks. I don't want to hear about 'Global Warming'.
That would bo 600% of average annual rainfall.
Sorry~ not enough coffee.
Gorebull Warning bump...
I never thought I would have to have the heater on the fire burning and a heavy wool sweater on in the middle of the day in San Diego!
AS far as a religious belief, all I can say is that as the world decays so does the weather, will Jesus let us destroy the world before he returns? I don't think so, but the weather has to do with us destroying the perfect planet GOD created..
Headline MSNBC News (on line):
Tundra study backs longer oil-search sesason
"That the prosperous Western part of the world is addicted to gas-guzzling SUV/MPV cars speeds things up in no small way."
Still less Dangerous that Volcano eruptions.
"I should know, because I am a M.Sc. in Biology/Biochemistry. So, being a decent and conservatively orientated person, I would be very surprised if I were to be banned for stating scientific facts."
Yes, I will personally see to it that you never appear on these boards again.
Iggy;
Think of the ways that measurement of temperature has changed in the last 50 years. When I was in school 20 years ago we studied "heat islands". The places where temperatures are measured has changed from rural to urban. Don't changes in the micro level of measurement effect macro models?
Change is natural. Humans are a flyspeck on the timeline of the history of the earth if you really beleive in the current scientific model. Global warming is a political/religious credo for socialists to do income redistribution. A big fallacy.
For later review.
BTTT
Predicting the future climate from the past record, knowing what we know today, is like a car trip, predicting the exact route and every stop I will take from San Francisco to New York, one minute after I've left my house. Good luck.
FreeItalian,
I hope no one would be banned from a board for stating an opinion in a logical manner. I will admit that I am not expert in this subject. However, when I look at the people who seem to push hard on this topic, I get very concerned about other agendas. It seems to me that the link between industrialization, global warming and changes in plant life are quite tenuous....something to be monitored for sure. But I don't see the need for drastic changes such as the leftists-inspired Kyoto accords.
Thanks for your thoughts!
I'm in Temecula. For the past week I've had ice on my windshield.
He can count on being shouted at, having pies thrown at him, and otherwise disrupted at any future speaking engagements. Just ask Bjorn Lomborg.
Actually I am in Vista on a golf course where I wake up to a iced up golfcourse, it snowed in Temecula last week, this is not CA weather and it's not even winter...
The west may be coming out of its 10 year draught, finally.
Here in Connecticut, we had almost double normal rainfall in 2003.
This year.....13 inches in September .... 4 inches from just Nov. 24 to Dec. 1.
Looking like a wet and mild winter shaping up so far.
A year ago we had an 18" snowstorm at my house.
If you want to tear your hair out, lose sleep and carry signs downtown, get ulcers and rant against perfectly normal and unchangeable geologic processes, be my guest.
Demonstrating and passing laws against volcanoes, tectonic plate movement and hurricanes is simply boring. When you get to agonizing against sunspots, I might join you. That could be fun.
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