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Climate Misinformation by Source: Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Richard Lindzen: A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action

URL: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/17/richard-lindzen-a-case-against-p...
Date: 17 January 2011

Arguments by Lindzen	vs	What the Science Says
"Climate sensitivity is low"		Net positive feedback is confirmed by many different lines of evidence.
"Climate's changed before"		Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time; humans are now the dominant forcing.
"It's a climate regime shift"		There is no evidence that climate has chaotic “regimes” on a long-term basis.
"It's only a few degrees"		A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate.
"Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity"		Lindzen and Choi’s paper is viewed as unacceptably flawed by other climate scientists.
"Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995"		Phil Jones was misquoted.
"There's no tropospheric hot spot"		We see a clear "short-term hot spot" - there's various evidence for a "long-term hot spot".

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