Meteorology professor Richard Lindzen said the
more alarmist climate claims were false and that there had been no significant
warming for 20 years.
Professor Richard Lindzen slammed conventional
global warming thinking warming as 'nonsense' in a lecture for the Global Warming Policy Foundation on
Tuesday.
'An
implausible conjecture backed by false evidence and repeated incessantly ... is
used to promote the overturn of industrial civilization,' he said in London.
'What we
will be leaving our grandchildren is ... a landscape degraded by rusting wind
farms and decaying solar panel arrays.'
A little old now, but this is from “More
Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming
Claims”.
More than 1,000 dissenting
scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have
now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al
Gore.
The well over 1,000 dissenting
scientists are almost 20 times the number of UN scientists (52) who
authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.
“Hundreds of billion dollars have
been wasted with the attempt of imposing Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
theory that is not supported by physical world evidences...AGW has been
forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination
that begins in the elementary school textbooks.” -- Brazilian Geologist Geraldo
Luís Lino, who authored the 2009 book ―The Global Warming Fraud: How a Natural
Phenomenon Was Converted into a False World Emergency.
“97% of Climate Scientists Agree” Is 100% Wrong
If you look at the literature, the
specific meaning of the 97% claim is: 97 percent of climate scientists agree
that there is a global warming trend and that human beings are the main
cause--that is, that we are over 50% responsible. The warming is a whopping 0.8
degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially
nothing in the last decade and a half.
Because the actual 97% claim
doesn’t even remotely justify their policies, catastrophists like President
Obama and John Kerry take what we could generously call creative liberties in
repeating this claim.
… Numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested (John
Cook is the guy who came up with the 97% figure –, ‘runs the popular website www.SkepticalScience.com
):
“Cook survey included 10 of my 122
eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather
than neutral.” —Dr. Richard Tol
“That is not an accurate
representation of my paper . . .” —Dr.
Craig Idso
Etc.
A lot to read but essentially what’s wrong with the Peer
review process, or “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”. (Dr. John
Ioannidis)
“Scientists understand that peer
review per se provides only a minimal assurance of quality, and that the public
conception of peer review as a stamp of authentication is far from the truth.
… “University and government
research overseers rarely step in to directly enforce research quality, and
when they do, the science community goes ballistic over the outside interference.