MIT climate scientist Dr Richard Lindzen dismisses ‘Climate change’ as ‘A quasi-religious movement predicated on a ridiculous ‘scientific’ narrative’

New paper by Dr Richard Lindzen: A review of the conventional global warming narrative – Published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation – September 22, 2022: Climate change is “ an almost religious movement based on a ridiculous ‘scientific’ story. The policies invoked in the name of this movement have put the US energy system in jeopardy.” – “Indeed, Earth’s climate has undergone major changes, but these changes provide no evidence of a causal role for CO₂.”

“Unless we realize the absurdity of the driving narrative, this could be just the beginning of the disasters that will follow today’s irrational CO₂ transformation.”

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New paper by Richard Lindzen: A narrative review of conventional global warming – Published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation – September 22, 2022

CO₂ is a particularly ludicrous choice for a ‘contaminant’. Its main role is as a fertilizer for plant life. Currently, almost all factories are short of CO₂. Moreover, if we remove a little more than 60% of the current CO₂, the consequences will be dire: namely, death by starvation for all animal life. It would not likely lead to a particularly cold world because such a reduction would only change a few percent in the radiation budget. After all, a 30% reduction in solar radiation about 2.5 billion years ago did not result in the Earth being much colder than it is today, as we noted earlier in relation to the Early Sun Dimming Paradox.

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In fact, Earth’s climate has undergone major changes, but these changes provide no evidence of a causal role for CO₂. For freezing cycles over the past 700 thousand years, proxy data from Vostok ice cores show that precooling reduces CO₂ despite very coarse time resolution (Jouzel et al., 1987, Gore, 2006). Higher time resolution is needed to show that warming also precedes the increase in CO₂ (Caillon et al, 2003). For earlier variations, there is no hint of any correlation with carbon dioxide, as shown in Figure 9a, a commonly presented reconstruction of CO₂ levels and ‘temperatures’ over the past 600 million years. or longer.

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All of this leaves us with an almost religious movement based on an absurd ‘scientific’ narrative. Policies invoked in the name of this movement have resulted in the United States disrupting its energy system (a process that plays a prominent role in causing inflation today), and lifting measures sanctions against Russia’s Nordstream 2 pipeline, designed to bypass the existing pipeline through Ukraine used to supply Germany. It has led much of the European Union to ban the exploitation of shale gas and other fossil fuel sources, thereby driving much higher energy costs, increased energy poverty and dependence on Russia, due to That greatly reduces the ability to resist Putin’s aggressive actions. …

Unless we wake up to the absurdity of the narrative that drives this, this could be just the beginning of the catastrophes that will follow the current irrational CO₂ demonization. Changing course will not be a simple task. As President Eisenhower noted in his 1961 farewell address: The prospect of dominating the nation’s academics by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is always present and needs to be viewed. seriously considered. However, in respecting scientific research and discovery, as we should, we must also be wary of the equally and converse risk that public policy could become a prisoner of the scientific elite. science and technology.

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