Deconstructing Global Warming by Richard S. Lindzen

globalwarming.org/ ^ | October 26, 2009 | Richard S. Lindzen

[Exton1]

Deconstructing Global Warming http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lindzen-talk-pdf.pdf

Yesterday the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Video of Dr. Lindzen’s presentation, “Deconstructing Global Warming,” will be available shortly, but his power point presentation is online now.

and Kerry Is Very Confused on Cap-and-Trade

[Exton1]

The lies are over, they will not be able to spin out of this.

[DBrow]

Lies are irrelevant to the Green movement and UN. Global control is the prize, what are a few untruths to get there?

[SuziQ]

Bump for Sunday afternoon reading!

[sourcery]

The debate actually is over…and the idea that human emissions of carbon dioxide will cause any significant degree of global warming has been categorically refuted and falsified. The empirically-measured change in the amount of energy radiating away from the Earth as a function of changes in sea surface temperature totally falsifies the IPCC climate models--and more importantly, completely falsifies the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis—total, categorical falsification, not simply invalidation of the alleged "proof" based on computer climate models:

• On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data (Dr. Lindzen's peer-reviewed scientific paper);
• RESPONSE TO US SECRETARY OF ENERGY ON CLIMATE STATEMENT (explanation for non-scientists)

[Wolfhound77]

Sure they will. Copenhagen is a done deal. Get ready to open your wallet and surrender your sovereignty.

[truthguy]

ping

[PreciousLiberty]

“Copenhagen is a done deal.”

Not so. Any treaty must be ratified by the Senate, requiring a 2/3 vote. There is no “nuclear option” for this.

So, get on the horn to your Senators!

[xp38]

I have recently heard “done deal” before. 2016 Olympics in Chicago was the reference IIRC.

[PreciousLiberty]

“I have recently heard “done deal” before. 2016 Olympics in Chicago was the reference IIRC.”

Good point, and thanks for the laugh!

[gusopol3]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his farewell address to the nation in 1961, gave a warning “that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific- technological elite.” He went on “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity…The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded.”

Thank you, Dr. Lindzen. For the first time in my life I now understand what Ike meant.

[gusopol3]

At a recent symposium on energy held at MIT, President Hockfield described climate change as ‘accelerating.’ I asked her privately what basis she had for this claim, sending her the following figures

Yo, he takes on his boss!

[gusopol3]

“THE ARCTIC OCEAN IS WARMING UP, ICEBERGS ARE GROWING SCARCER AND IN SOME PLACES THE SEALS ARE FINDING THE WATER TOO HOT. REPORTS ALL POINT TO A RADICAL CHANGE IN CLIMATE CONDITIONS AND HITHERTO UNHEARD-OF TEMPERATURES IN THE ARCTIC ZONE. EXPEDITIONS REPORT THAT SCARCELY ANY ICE HAS BEEN MET WITH AS FAR NORTH AS 81 DEGREES 29 MINUTES. GREAT MASSES OF ICE HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY MORAINES OF EARTH AND STONES, WHILE AT MANY POINTS WELL KNOWN GLACIERS HAVE ENTIRELY DISAPPEARED.”
—US WEATHER BUREAU, 1922
In fact, the arctic is notoriously variable

1922 1922 1922 1922

[gusopol3]

However, Hockfield’s response does reveal the characteristic feature of the current presentation of this issue: namely any and every statement is justified by an appeal to authority rather than by scientific argument. (Only last Friday, Pres. Obama did the same at MIT while simultaneously calling for sound science and critical analysis and marginalizing nay sayers concerning global warming.)

[gusopol3]

Sorry, all of the above are quoting the PDF, well worth the read.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !