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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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A Mayor Mistake

URL: http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen4/mistake.html
Date: 6 February 2011

Arguments by Lindzen	vs	What the Science Says
"CO2 is plant food"		The effects of enhanced CO2 on terrestrial plants are variable and complex and dependent on numerous factors
"CO2 limits will harm the economy"		The benefits of a price on carbon outweigh the costs several times over.
"CO2 limits will hurt the poor"		Those who contribute the least greenhouse gases will be most impacted by climate change.
"Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected"		This argument ignores the cooling effect of aerosols and the planet's thermal inertia.
"Global warming stopped in ~~1998~~, ~~1995~~, ~~2002~~, ~~2007~~, ~~2010~~, ????"		Global temperature is still rising and 2010 was the hottest recorded.
"It's a natural cycle"		No known natural forcing fits the fingerprints of observed warming except anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

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