Richard Lindzen is one of the world’s top meteorologists but the climate alarmist crowd do not want to listen to him. Most recently a German Magazine, Numero, asked him to write a piece and also asked John Schellnhuber to write an opposing piece. Schellnhuber is the German government’s Chief Advisor on climate change but he backed out so Numero decided to not publish Richard Lindzen’s article. However, Lindzen agreed to publish on Joanne Nova’s site here.
In addition, you can download a pdf of the complete article here. It is very readable and clear but his conclusions are not what either side of the debate want to hear! What he says (and what the Cobourg Skeptic agrees with 100%) is that:
Richard Lindzen
- Global warming is a lot more complex than being caused by man (AGW)
- About a third of warming seen (which is not much because of recent decline) is caused by the greenhouse effect. A third is not zero.
- The models used are wrong – CO2 feedback is negative not positive.
- The predictions have been wrong – a major test of whether a theory is right.
- There are a lot of politicians and lobbyists on the bandwagon
- There is no need for alarm or panic or any real reason to take the drastic actions proposed
I would go further and say that there are a lot of scientists with their name on plain bad science. I don’t know how they face their peers. And now we have to find a way to stop the momentum of the political sheep who took a while to listen to the IPCC and are now also taking a while to listen to the growing case against AGW.
But note, I am no longer saying that there is no man-made global warming but instead:
Man-made Global warming is a small contribution to any climate change and we should not be concerned or take any drastic action.
For other unrelated reasons, conserving fossil fuel resources is necessary. See also previous post which also says the AGW is a small but not zero contribution.