MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
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Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#2Click on the results of the search for the full text if you're not a subscriber; real URL is http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870444830457519...
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#3Header from the author's wikipedia profile:
"Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940, Webster, Massachusetts) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books.[1] He was a lead author of Chapter 7, 'Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,' of the IPCC Third Assessment Report on climate change. He is a well known skeptic of global warming[2] and critic of what he states are political pressures on climate scientists to conform to climate alarmism."
Famous scientist and well-known critic of AGW? This is the first I've heard of him...
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#4Header from the author's wikipedia profile: "Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940, Webster, Massachusetts) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books…
Hmmm ... he's been well known in this field for both of the above since the late '80s, when a friend of mine interviewed him.
At the time he effectively said he had been rather naive in the publication of his research (as I recall it was a study going back 200+ years on ship temperature reports, rather important data since the majority of the world is covered by the seas). He had thought that the scientific community was interested in the truth....
His problem was of course that the '80s were the period where the climate alarmists switched from global cooling/new Ice Age to global warming. As I recall his funding sources went poof, fortunately he'd already gotten tenure.
Anyway, if you're interested in this topic yet haven't heard of him or, say, "atmospheric physicist" Fred Singer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer; e.g. he "designed the first instruments used in satellites to measure cosmic radiation and ozone" (all quotes from Wikipedia)), you might want to expand your sources of information.
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#5Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#6http://logicalscience.com/skeptics/Lindzen.htm
Thanks. That link brings a lot of perspective.
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#7http://logicalscience.com/skeptics/Lindzen.htm
Anyone who thinks "skeptic" is a perjorative is not a scientist.
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#8Header from the author's wikipedia profile: "Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940, Webster, Massachusetts) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books…
Hmmm ... he's been well known in this field for both of the above since the late '80s, when a friend of mine interviewed him. At the time he effectively said he had been rather naive in the publication of his research (as I recall it was a study going back 200+ years on ship temperature reports, rather important data since the majority of the world is covered by the seas). He had thought that the scientific community…
What motivates these global alarmists? And how do they get money by being so shrill? Is your average citizen just dying to be worried over the next catastrophe and willing to throw money at whomever can scare them the most?
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#9http://logicalscience.com/skeptics/Lindzen.htm
Important part:
" Lindzen recieved $2500 a day from oil and coal interests for his services.1,2, 3 His article "Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus," was underwritten by OPEC.1 Lindzen has lectured at numerous Cooler Heads Coalition meetings. The Cooler Heads Coalition is funded by CEI which is in turn funded by Exxon Mobil. He has also given talks for the George C. Marshall Institute which is also funded by Exxon Mobil. His connections to the oil, coal, and even tobacco industry are apparently rather extensive. Here is one listof many that is worth exploring. Richard Lindzen claims he is currently not recieving any handouts from oil companies."
Re: MIT Prof Richard S. Lindzen: Global Warming Alarmists Are in Denial
#10Header from the author's wikipedia profile: "Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940, Webster, Massachusetts) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books…
> This is the first I've heard of him
What other atmospheric scientists have you heard of and why?