Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/06/2009 2:07:02 PM PDT by ClimateDepot.com
Scientific foundation for climate fears 'falling apart'
Monday, July 06, 2009By Marc Morano – Climate Depot MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen mocked man-made global warming fears in a July 2, 2009 radio interview on WRKO's Howie Carr program. (Full audio of Lindzen's interview available here.)
Lindzen noted that man-made climate fears were "divorced from nature" and he said the scientific foundation for climate fears is "falling apart."
"How did we get a population that can be told something that contradicts their senses and go crazy over it?" Lindzen asked on the program. Lindzen recently co-signed an open letter to Congress with a team of scientists warning: "You Are Being Deceived About Global Warming' -- 'Earth has been cooling for ten years.'
When asked about climate fears, Lindzen dismissed the notion that "ordinary" Americans are buying into former Vice President Al Gore's climate views.
"We are too smart for that. You look at the polls, ordinary people see thorough this, but educated people are very vulnerable," Lindzen quipped. (at 09:14 min. mark on audio)
Lindzen noted that people are being told that if they change a lightbulb, they are "saving the Earth", they are "virtuous, they are smart."
"Now you are told if you that if you don't understand global warming is going on, you are dumb, but if you agree to it, you are smart," Lindzen explained.
Climate Depot Note:
Current polling data reveals that the American people “get it” when it comes to man-made global warming fears. Given the wealth of recent polling data showing Americans are growing increasingly skeptical, Congressmen and Senators are simply not hearing any clamor from voters to "act" to "solve" global warming.
In fact, the opposite is true, voters are rebelling against the unfounded climate fears and the so-called "solutions" in growing numbers. Below is a small sampling of recent polling data on global warming.
1) Gallup survey found global warming ranked dead last in the U.S. among ENVIRONMENTAL issues – March 2009
2) Gallup Poll Editor: Gore has 'Failed' -- 'The public is just not that concerned' about global warming – May 2009
3) Zobgy Poll: Only 30% of Americans support cap-and-trade -- 57% oppose – April 2009
4) "Gallup Poll: Record-High 41% of Americans Now Say Global Warming is Exaggerated" - March 11, 2009
5) Rasmussen Poll found Only 34% Now Blame Humans for Global Warming - 'Lowest finding yet' -- 'reversal from a year ago!'
6) Rasmussen Reports: Congress Pushes Cap and Trade, But Just 24% Know What It Is - May 11, 2009
Headline should readh “through” not “thorough.”
Thanks
(Full audio of Lindzen’s interview available here.)
http://wrko.everyzing.com/m/audio/24111309/richard-lindzen-global-warming-denier.htm
‘Ordinary people see thorough climate fears — but educated people are very vulnerable’
How do they determine ordinary vs. educated people to their standards?
educated people - means college-indocrinated.
bookmark
Thanks.
There has been a lot of talk lately here about the book The Black Swan and its author. Taleb notes that "experts" are often fooled by their own arrogance and knowledge into thinking that they know more than they actually do.
[Take Note Sarah Palin critics!!!!]
I’m also beginning to understand exactly how Goldman Sachs and Wallstreet sucker punched America....
Bullseye!
Re: “educated people - means college-indocrinated”
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Yes, and I get it — the college indoctrinated types for the most part don’t use common sense and life experience/history to arrive at their conclusions. Instead, many prefer to blindly follow what they’ve been ‘taught’ in the halls of higher learning (ha).
But even the VERY smart (now deceased) Michael Crichton debunked ‘global warming’ long before his own death, so occasionally the well-educated among us do use common sense.
This explains a lot.
"Ordinary" people know that they will never be thought of as smart, so they are free to use common sense.
Most "educated" people are not smart, just educated. They need others to believe they are smart, so they fall for the fraud.
People who really are smart, are too complex to just use common sense, so they need to figure it out for themselves. Since they are smart, they eventually get the correct answers. :-)
Slept in this morning, eh? :)
That’s because Michael Crichton was educated before stupidity was the main course served up at “higher” education camps.
B.S...people that are educated in everything but science may believe the globull-warming hoax. We scientific types that base our opinions on data (not computer simulations) were never fooled.
"We are too smart for that. You look at the polls, ordinary people see thorough this, but educated people are very vulnerable," Lindzen quipped. (at 09:14 min. mark on audio)
Lindzen noted that people are being told that if they change a lightbulb, they are "saving the Earth", they are "virtuous, they are smart."
"Now you are told if you that if you don't understand global warming is going on, you are dumb, but if you agree to it, you are smart," Lindzen explained.
And that's one reason why I'm a conservative. About 200 years ago, H. C. Anderson wrote The Emperor's New Clothes about this very phenomena. People might change over 10,000 years, but not over 200. Struggling to be thought of as one of the bien-pensant still gets folks caught in faddish stupidity.
Sorry, but real scientists are not considered “educated” by academics. If you’re not “part of the team,” (read dleftist socialist educators) than you are just some ignorant peasant, or plumber, or mechanic.
Hank
Excellent - thanks for all.
I resent the article. (Gets ready to toot his own horn)...I am college educated, two Masters degrees, and I have never bought into global warming.
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