MIT Scientist Debunks Global Warming Hysteria

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MIT Scientist Debunks Global Warming Hysteria

We need to alert Nina Jankowicz at once. Over a decade ago, the Boston Globe committed misinformation, and YouTube has failed to remove it from public view. MIT Professor of Meteorology Richard Lindzen calmly dismantling the global warming hoax has escaped the censors since 2010.
As he explains, and as schoolchildren used to understand, there has always been climate change. This is a problem only to the extent our rulers make it into one. The notion that the seas are rising up to swallow us is false, which is easily confirmed by the beachfront mansions of our warmist ruling class (e.g., Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos).
A few key quotes:
“To suggest that what’s been going on for thousands of years is something we should suddenly be alarmed at … doesn’t seem reasonable.”
What it seems like is an orchestrated campaign to manipulate fools by striking fear in them. Covid serves as an example of how effective this tactic can be.
“People retire to the Sunbelt, not to the Northwest Territories of Canada.”
A dozen years later, the hottest city in the USA is also the fastest growing. People would be dumping property in Phoenix if they thought it would get much hotter here. Instead, property values are shooting into the stratosphere.
“Although catastrophes certainly occur, they have many causes, of which global warming is one of the least.”
Every time there is a forest fire or a weather event, the mainstream media/Democrat Party axis blames global warming. By now, only the pathologically gullible believe it.
The fallacious tactic is known as “passing from the acceptable to the dubious.” Temperatures appear to be trending warmer; human activity may have an effect. Con artists jump from there to crises that are imaginary, unrelated, or absurdly exaggerated.
They should have stuck with the global cooling crisis they pushed in the 70s. After all, “if you want a disaster, having 2 miles of ice on your head is problematic — and the earth has had that.”
Here Professor Lindzen puts his finger on why climate change dogma has replaced science among scientists:
“All of us scientists are government employees, even if we’re working for private universities. All research is supported by the government.”
Big Government has an obvious interest in propping up a phony crisis the purpose of which is to justify government control over all human activity.



No wonder Big Tech is cracking down, as censors turn their attention to climate change. The Democrat agenda calls for radically reducing both our freedom and our standard of living in the name of a hoax that doesn’t pass the laugh test when challenged.

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A glorious future in a fortified democracy awaits us all comrades !

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“To suggest that what’s been going on for thousands of years is something we should suddenly be alarmed at … doesn’t seem reasonable.”
AGW has not been going on for thousands of years.
“People retire to the Sunbelt, not to the Northwest Territories of Canada.”
Irrelevant. AGW doesn't say cold weather will disappear in the immediate future.

“Although catastrophes certainly occur, they have many causes, of which global warming is one of the least.”

Generalized to the point of meaninglessness. Global warming is increasing the frequency and severity of severe weather events.

“All of us scientists are government employees, even if we’re working for private universities. All research is supported by the government.”
He includes himself here and expects to be trusted. He has not explained why we shouldn't trust anyone else.

It would be more accurate to describe Mr Lindzen as an employee of the ExxonMobil corporation and more generally by the fossil fuel industry.

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Background​

Richard S. Lindzen is former Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he held from 1983 until his retirement in 2013. [3], [76], [77]

Lindzen’s academic interests lie within the topics of “climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability,” according to his faculty profile at MIT. [3]

Lindzen is a former distinguished senior fellow at the Cato Institute‘s Center for the Study of Science. The Center shut down in 2019, and was no longer affiliated with Lindzen at that time. “It’s unclear when he left Cato, and [Spokeswoman Khristine] Brookes declined to comment on personnel issues,” E&E News reported. [2], [101]

The Cato Institute, a conservative think tank where Lindzen has also published numerous articles and studies, has received at least $125,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. In his 1995 article, “The Heat Is On,” Ross Gelbspan reported Lindzen charged oil and coal organizations $2,500 per day for his consulting services. [4], [5]

Lindzen has described ExxonMobil as “the only principled oil and gas company I know in the U.S.” [6]

In addition to his position at Cato, Lindzen is listed as an “Expert” with the Heartland Institute, a member of the “Academic Advisory Council” of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and an advisor to the CO2 Coalition, a group promoting the benefits of atmospheric carbon dioxide. [58], [59], [62]

Fossil Fuel Funding​

As part of a March 2018 legal case between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland and fossil fuel companies, Lindzen was asked by the judge to disclose any connections he had to connected parties. [94]

In response, Lindzen reported that he had received $25,000 per year for his position at the Cato Institute since 2013. He also disclosed $1,500 from the Texas Public Policy Foundation for a “climate science lecture” in 2017, and approximately $30,000 from Peabody Coal in connection to testimony Lindzen gave at a proceeding of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commissions in September 2015. [98]

 
Charlton Heston filmed a mockumentary about climate change back in 1973 called Soylent Green ... you're 50 years behind the rest of us ...

I just watch CBS claim that the Desert Southwest was becoming a desert due to global warming ... ha ha ... it's already a desert ... it's major disaster for Phoenix if their climate stays the same ... and I agree ... burn them tires ... help Phoenix ...
 
Sure it is.
 

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LOL!
 
Says the guy who isn't powering his house with solar or driving an EV.

Even you don't buy your bullshit rhetoric.
 
For about 11,000 years since the end of the last ice age the Earth has been warming except for a few relatively short exceptions such as the Little Ice Age. To become alarmed that this is continuing seems to be behavior worthy of Chicken Little. The Earth warmed quite a bit during the twentieth century, but more of the warming occurred prior to 1940 when our carbon footprint much smaller than occurred during the next sixty years.

People have been observing mars through telescopes for over four hundred years. During all that time Mars had an ice cap covering its northern polar region. This ice cap has been growing smaller but was still a one piece ice cap up until 2021. Then astronomers noted that the ice cap was no longer a one piece cap. It had melted away to separate pieces with gaps between them. Obviously Mars has warmed considerably. Since Mars (as well as the outer planets and moons) have been getting warmer at the same time the Earth is growing warmer doesn't common sense dictate that we believe we didn't cause that to happen.
 
For about 11,000 years since the end of the last ice age the Earth has been warming except for a few relatively short exceptions such as the Little Ice Age. To become alarmed that this is continuing seems to be behavior worthy of Chicken Little.

To ignore the radically increased warming of the last century is behavior worthy of an ostrich with its head in the sand. Here is the latest reconstruction of global temperatures over the Holocene. 1) The world has not consistently been warming over that period and 2) If you think that uptick at the end falls in with the trend of the rest of the Holocene, you're delusional

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The Earth warmed quite a bit during the twentieth century, but more of the warming occurred prior to 1940 when our carbon footprint much smaller than occurred during the next sixty years.

I'm afraid that simply isn't so.

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People have been observing mars through telescopes for over four hundred years. During all that time Mars had an ice cap covering its northern polar region. This ice cap has been growing smaller but was still a one piece ice cap up until 2021. Then astronomers noted that the ice cap was no longer a one piece cap. It had melted away to separate pieces with gaps between them. Obviously Mars has warmed considerably. Since Mars (as well as the outer planets and moons) have been getting warmer at the same time the Earth is growing warmer doesn't common sense dictate that we believe we didn't cause that to happen.

If Mars and Earth were both undergoing the same temperature variation, the obvious cause would have to be the sun. Data on total solar irradiance does NOT support the sun being a cause for warming. The origin of the idea you present is a 2005 paper by Fenton. He compared photographs of the surface from 1977 and 1999. Interpolating between these two rather distant endpoints led him to mistake weather for climate. A broader study of conditions on the planet since human observations began show NO EVIDENCE of warming. See Global warming on Mars, ice caps melting
 

Cleaner Air Leads to More Atlantic Hurricanes, NOAA Study Finds​

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A new study suggests that the successful efforts in North America and Europe to reduce air pollution have led to an unintended consequence—more hurricanes.

The “surprising result” was found by Hiroyuki Murakami, a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In his paper, published in the journal Science Advances, Murakami said he studied hurricane trends in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 40 years and discovered a connection between the number of hurricanes and the amount of air pollution in the form of tiny particles called aerosols.

Almost 90 percent of aerosols released into the air have natural origins such as volcanoes and forest fires, while the remaining 10 percent come from human activities, such as manufacturing cement and burning coals. The NOAA study examines data from two periods: 1980 to 2000 and 2001 to 2020, during which North America and Europe significantly cut their output of human-caused aerosols.

According to the study, a 50 percent decrease in human-caused aerosol pollution from 1980 to 2020 has contributed to a 33 percent increase in storm formations in Atlantic Ocean. The idea is that when there are fewer pollution particles to reflect the sun’s energy back into space, water will get warmer and act as fuel for hurricanes.

“Without significant amounts of particulate pollution to reflect sunlight, the ocean absorbs more heat and warms faster,” NOAA said in a May 11 statement. “A warming Atlantic Ocean has been a key ingredient to a 33 percent increase in the number of tropical cyclones during this 40 year period.”

Murakami also found that as Asian air became dirtier, the area also experienced fewer typhoons. “In this case, a 40 percent increase in the concentration of particulate air pollution has been one of several factors that has contributed to a 14 percent decrease,” he said.
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Repeating your quote won't help you here Todd. That does NOT say that the research was in any way based on anyone's feelings. And I gave you seven other links. If this is all you've got... well, it's not much.

Repeating your quote won't help you here Todd.

My quote? It's from your link.

That does NOT say that the research was in any way based on anyone's feelings.

personal and tangible experiences of the weather.

Doesn't sound very objective or scientific.

And I gave you seven other links.

I have to find something to mock in every link?
That was the first one I clicked on.
 
To ignore the radically increased warming of the last century is behavior worthy of an ostrich with its head in the sand. Here is the latest reconstruction of global temperatures over the Holocene. 1) The world has not consistently been warming over that period and 2) If you think that uptick at the end falls in with the trend of the rest of the Holocene, you're delusional

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I'm afraid that simply isn't so.

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If Mars and Earth were both undergoing the same temperature variation, the obvious cause would have to be the sun. Data on total solar irradiance does NOT support the sun being a cause for warming. The origin of the idea you present is a 2005 paper by Fenton. He compared photographs of the surface from 1977 and 1999. Interpolating between these two rather distant endpoints led him to mistake weather for climate. A broader study of conditions on the planet since human observations began show NO EVIDENCE of warming. See Global warming on Mars, ice caps melting

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Give that graph a Nobel Prize!!!
 

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