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Climate Misinformation by Source: Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The Fluid Envelope | Commentaries Essays

URL: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/commentaries_essays/the_fluid_envelo...
Date: 6 February 2011

Arguments by Lindzen vs What the Science Says
"Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup"

By breathing out, we are simply returning to the air the same CO2 that was there to begin with.

"Climate's changed before" Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time; humans are now the dominant forcing.
"CO2 limits will harm the economy"

The benefits of a price on carbon outweigh the costs several times over.

"Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected" This argument ignores the cooling effect of aerosols and the planet's thermal inertia.
"Global warming stopped in 1998, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2010, ????"

Global temperature is still rising and 2010 was the hottest recorded.

"IPCC is alarmist"

Numerous papers have documented how IPCC predictions are more likely to underestimate the climate response.

"IPCC overestimate temperature rise"

Monckton used the IPCC equation in an inappropriate manner.

"It's a natural cycle"

No known natural forcing fits the fingerprints of observed warming except anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

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