Dr Lindzen Says Global Warming Is Religion

[bripat9643]

It's official folks: global warming cult members are a bunch of nutburgers!

http://billlawrencedittos.com/dr-lindzen-says-global-warming-is-religion/

Today’s link is from The Daily Caller and features Dr. Richard Lindzen, who is an atmospherics physicist and the Alford P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calling global warming a religion — and a destructive one at that.

“Global Warming has become a religion,” wrote Lindzen, in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. “A surprisingly
large number of people seem to have concluded that all that gives
meaning to their lives is the belief that they are saving the planet by
paying attention to their carbon footprint.”

Lindzen also says “Global climate alarmism has been costly to society, and it has the
potential to be vastly more costly. It has also been damaging to
science, as scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate
politically correct positions,”

 

[daveman]

The Westboro Climate Church fundamentalists have decreed a state religion.

I really wish the left would insist on the separation between the Climate Church and State.

 

[Mr. H.]

I'm in the business of producing hydrocarbons. Raw, unrefined hydrocarbons.

I suck that shit straight from the bowels of Mother Earth.

And you can too, in 1,745 easy steps!

 

[Old Rocks]

Dr. Lindzen also stated before congress that cigarrettes do not harm you.

 

[Abraham3]

Key Deeds of Dr Richard Lindzen (http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen)

August 2013

Lindzen publishes an article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons entitled, "Science in the Public Square: Global Climate Alarmism and Historical Precendents." [26]

January 27, 2012

Lindzen is a signatory to an Op-Ed published in the Wall Street Journal titled "No Need to Panic About Global Warming." [20]

Other signatories include Claude Allègre, J. Scott Armstrong, Jan Breslow, William Happer, William Kininmonth, James McGrath, Rodney Nichols, Burt Rutan, Harrison H. Schmitt, Nir Shaviv, Edward David, Michael Kelly, Henk Tennekes, and Antonino Zichichi.

Skeptical Science summarized how the list of signatories "only includes four scientists who have actually published climate research in peer-reviewed journals, and only two who have published climate research in the past three decades." Also, almost half have received funding from oil companies and big industry. [21]

Media Transparency reported similar findings more in-depth here. [22]

March 8 - 10, 2009

Lindzen was a keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute's 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. [6]

Sponsors of the 2009 conference have collectively received over $47 million from energy companies and right-wing foundations.

March 8, 2007

Appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary.

The Great Global Warming Swindle also starred fellow skeptics Tim Ball, Roy Spencer, Fred Singer, Pat Michaels, Nir Shaviv, Nigel Lawson, Ian Clark, Piers Corbyn, Philip Stott, Paul Reiter, Patrick Moore, Patrick Michaels, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Fred Singer, Paul Driessen, and others.

December 13, 2007

Lindzen was a signatory to a 2007 open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that declared "It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages." [7]

The letter further explains how carbon dioxide is a "non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis" and why the IPCC's reports are "inadequate as justification" for implementing climate change policy.

November, 2005

Lindzen was also a signatory to the 2005 Leipzig Declaration which describes the Kyoto Protocol as "dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive to jobs and standards-of-living." [8]

The Declaration further states that "there does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide."

The Declaration, available in two versions, was penned by prominent climate-change denier Fred Singer's Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP). SEPP has received at least $20,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

November, 2004

Lindzen made the claim that the climate would be significantly colder in 20 years.

When James Annan, a British climate researcher, approached Lindzen about solidifying a bet on the claim, Lindzen would only agree if Annan would accept a 50-to-1 payout (Annan did not agree to those terms).

Anan eventually made the $10,000 wager with two Russian Solar physicists, Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev. [9]

November 16, 2004

Lindzen signed a 2004 open letter to John McCain that refuted findings by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). [10]

The letter concludes that that past past warming in the arctic cannot be attributed to greenhouse gas concentrations:

"Arctic climate has and will continue to exhibit intricate patterns not reliably reproduced by global climate simulations, thus underscoring their scientific incompleteness and need for advances in Arctic climate science, in measurements, theory and models."

It was signed by numerous prominent climate change skeptics including R. Timothy Patterson, Tim Ball, David Legates, Pat Michaels, Gary D. Sharp, Roy W. Spencer, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas.

September 30, 2002

Lindzen was the main speaker for a congressional media briefing, sponsored by the Cooler Heads Coalition, entitled "On The Meaning of Global Warming Claims." [11]

May 2, 2001

Testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the subject of climate change.

Lindzen concluded that "If we view Kyoto as an insurance policy, it is a policy where the
premium appears to exceed the potential damages, and where the coverage extends to only a small fraction of the potential damages." [12]

1998

Lindzen is a signatory to the Oregon Petition, a controversial document first circulated in 1998 with an article that appeared to be a reprint of a National Academy of Science peer-reviewed article.

The National Academy of Science has stated that it is not connected in any way with the Oregon Petition.

1995

According to Ross Gelbspan's 1995 article The Heat Is On, Lindzen was one of three expert witnesses that were hired to testify on behalf of Western Fuels Association, a "$400 million consortium: of coal suppliers and coal-powered utilities." [13]

The hearings were to determine the environmental cost of burning coal by state power plants.

May 24-25, 1993

Lindzen took part in a conference titled "Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process," that was organized by SEPP and George Mason University's International Institute.

The conference invited numerous journalists to a "special media session," where the organizers went through the conference's overall themes which were described as follows:

"The conference discussion underscored two themes: (1) the need for stringent, open, external peer-review of the scientific basis of federal environmental actions, and (2) distortions in the teaching of environmental issues, i.e. 'Who peer-reviews what is being taught under the guise of environmental education?'" [14]

Lindzen spoke on a panel that accused any scientists supporting the conclusion of AGW (Anthropogenic [man-made] Global Warming) of "distorting the issues," "distorting logic," "using science to advance a political agenda," and even "intimidating other scientists through coercion."

June, 1992

Lindzen is a signatory to the Heidelberg Appeal. The Heidelberg Appeal was created by the International Centre for Scientific Ecology, a public relations front group, during the 1992 UN World Summit. Eventually the document was endorsed by 4,000 scientists who declared that "we are worried at the dawn of the twenty-first century, at the emergence of an irrational ideology [man-made global warming] which is opposed to scientific and industrial progress and impedes economic and social development."

The document also says that "many essential human activities are carried out by manipulating hazardous substances, and that progress and development have always involved increasing control over hostile forces."

Dr. Fred Singer and the International Centre for Scientific Ecology consented to the tobacco giant Philip Morris' use of the Heidelberg Appeal to draw support to its European branch of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)—TASSC Europe.

TASSC was Philip Morris's front group initiated to question the science that showed the devastating effects of smoking on the human body.

Affiliations

Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy — Past Member, Science, Health, and Economic Advisory Council. [15] The Annapolis center appears to be now defunct.

The Heartland Institute — "Expert." [16]

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) — Member, "Academic Advisory Council." [17]

George C. Marshall Institute — Roundtable Speaker. [18]

Tech Central Station — Contributor. [19]

Publications

According to his curriculum vitae and Google Scholar, Dr. Lindzen has published numerous articles in the field of climatology, with many appearing in peer- reviewed journals.

Resources

"Curriculum Vitae: Richard Siegmund Lindzen" (PDF), MIT, February 10, 2010.

Lesley Curwen. "Science climate conflict warms up," BBC News, April 26, 2007.

Richard S. Lindzen. "Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus," Regulation (CATO Institute), Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring 1992).

Richard S. Lindzen. "Don't Believe the Hype," Wall Street Journal (Opinion), July 2, 2006. Archived July 5, 2006.

Craig D. Rose. "Sempra forums set to address global warming," U-T San Diego, February 14, 2007.

"Is Global Warming a Myth?", Scientific American, April 8, 2009.

"Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations," December 13, 2007. Reprinted by the Science and Public Policy Institute.

"SIGNATORIES TO THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION," Science and Environmental Policy Project. Archived September 28, 2006.

David Adam. "Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world," The Guardian, August 19, 2005.

"Climate Experts Respond to Arctic Climate Impact Assessment" (Press Release), Frontier Center For Public Policy, November 20, 2004.

"MIT Climatologist Richard S. Lindzen To Address Cooler Heads Coalition," Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 30, 2002.

"Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on 2 May 2001" (PDF). Accessed January, 2012, from eaps.mit.edu.

Ross Gelbspan. "THE HEAT IS ON: The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial," Harper's Magazine, December 1995. Republished at dieoff.org.

"Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process: Conference

"Richard S. Lindzen," The Independent Institute. Accessed January, 2012.

"Heartland Experts: Mr. Richard Lindzen," The Heartland Institute. Accessed January, 2012.

"Academic Advisory Council," The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Accessed January, 2012.

"Dr. Richard Lindzen," George C. Marshall Institute. Accessed January, 2012.

"Richard S. Lindzen," Tech Central Station. Archived September 21, 2003.

"No Need to Panic About Global Warming," The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2012.

"The Latest Denialist Plea for Climate Change Inaction," Skeptical Science, January 31, 2012.

"The Journal Hires Dentists To Do Heart Surgery," Media Transparency, January 30, 2012.

Greenpeace Investigations on Richard Lindzen.

"Richard S. Lindzen," SourceWatch Profile.

ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Richard Lindzen.

"Science in the Public Square: Global Climate Alarmism and Historical Precendents," Journal of American Physicans and Surgeons, Fall 2013.

 

[mamooth]

I think he's most famous for TheBet, where he claimed he'd be willing to bet anyone the climate would be cooler in 20 years. When a dozen people publicly offered to accept that bet, Lindzen backpedaled and declared he wanted 50-to-1 odds.

I'd happily make such a bet, even money, with anyone. And just for 10 years. Any takers? Average global surface temp, any of the datasets you want, 2022 vs 2012. I'll even accept the risk of an unexpected massive volcanic eruption cooling things, being the odds are would be so heavily in my favor.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I'd bet 2022 will be around .12c warmer then 2012.

 

[mamooth]

Um, I should probably clarify I'm also wanting to take the _warmer_ side of the bet ...