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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10266)	2/24/2012 11:32:25 AM
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Lindzen debunked again: New scientific study finds his paper downplaying dangers of human-caused warming is “seriously in error” By Joe Romm on Jan 11, 2010 at 11:27 am Trenberth: The flaws in Lindzen-Choi paper “have all the appearance of the authors having contrived to get the answer they got.” Consistently being wrong and consistently producing one-sided analyses that are quickly debunked in the literature should lead scientific journals and the entire scientific community (and possibly the media) to start ignoring your work. But when you are one of the last remaining “serious” professional scientists spreading global warming disinformation who retains a (nano)ounce of credibility because you are associated with a major university — M.I.T. — and your name is Richard Lindzen, apparently you can just keep publishing and repeating the same crap over and over and over again. It’s not just that Lindzen’s popular disinformation tracts have been widely debunked — see RealClimate here. Or that his one remaining big idea — that clouds are negative feedback — has been refuted in the literature [see Science: "Clouds Appear to Be Big, Bad Player in Global Warming,"an amplifying feedback (sorry Lindzen and fellow deniers)]. That idea of course meant ignored the myriad observations that climate impacts are occurring faster, not slower, than the models had predicted, and that therefore the multiple strong amplifying feedbacks are overwhelming whatever few week negative feedbacks occur in the climate system — see Study: Water-vapor feedback is “strong and positive,” so we face “warming of several degrees Celsius” (and below). At the Heartland conference of climate-change disinformers last year, Lindzen went from disinformation to defamation as he smeared the reputation of one of the greatest living climate scientists, Wallace Broecker (see “ Shame on Richard Lindzen, MIT’s uber-hypocritical anti-scientific scientist“). thinkprogress.org