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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (17554)	11/21/2007 10:28:43 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Lindzen agrees the climate has been warming and that we're increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere. Those are facts. He hasn't drunk the AGW koolaid though. If he had, your side would be trumpeting that success in your evangelistic campaign. He frequently speaks out against the IPCC position that significant global warming is caused by humans (see global warming) although he accepts that the warming has occurred, saying global mean temperature is about 0.6 degrees Celsius higher than it was a century ago.[6] His position with regard to the IPCC can be summed up with this quotation: "Picking holes in the IPCC is crucial. The notion that if you’re ignorant of something and somebody comes up with a wrong answer, and you have to accept that because you don’t have another wrong answer to offer is like faith healing, it’s like quackery in medicine – if somebody says you should take jelly beans for cancer and you say that’s stupid, and he says, well can you suggest something else and you say, no, does that mean you have to go with jelly beans?"[7] Lindzen was one of several scientists who appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary that aired in the UK in March, 2007 on Channel Four. The film was critical of the IPCC and many scientific opinions on climate change. en.wikipedia.org As comparing him to Hansen, unlike Hansen, Lindzen doesn't deny that historical warming and cooling cycles have occurred in the last 1000 years.