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To: Brumar89 who wrote (932989)	5/2/2016 4:02:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572484

"Lindzen and Spencer are very respectable scientists. " who are wrong all the time. 2012 Tyndall lecture (start at 35:00 in the video) It's OK to be wrong, and Dick is a smart person, but most people don't really understand that one way of using your intelligence is to spin ever more clever ways of deceiving yourself, ever more clever ways of being wrong, and that's OK because if you are wrong in an interesting way that advances the science, I think it's great to be wrong and he has made a career of being wrong in interesting ways about climate science. = Make no mistake about it; Lindzen has made a career of being wrong about climate science. Unfortunately, while the Weekly Standard piece goes through Lindzen's many contrarian climate arguments, it misses the key point that they haven't withstood scientific scrutiny or the test of time: • Changes in water vapor will dampen global warming (also known as Lindzen's "Iris hypothesis")? Refuted by four peer-reviewed studies within a year of the publication of Lindzen's hypothesis. Measurements show that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is increasing as mainstream climate scientists expect, and as a greenhouse gas, is amplifying global warming. • Climate change over the past century has been "minimal"? In reality, the current rate of global warming is unprecedented over the past 11,000 years. • The 15-year 'pause' myth? Completely debunked – global surface warming over the past decade turns out to be more than double previous estimates, and the climate continues to accumulate heat at a rate equivalent to 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second. • The accuracy of climate models during that timeframe? Much better than Lindzen claims. Comparison of the observed NASA temperature record (black) with temperature predictions from Dr. James Hansen's 1988 modeling study (red), and with my reconstructed temperature prediction by Dr. Richard Lindzen based on statements from his talk at MIT in 1989 (blue). Hansen's Scenario B projection has been adjusted to reflect the actual observed greenhouse gas concentrations since 1988. theguardian.com