"Based on the weak argument that the current models used by the IPCC couldn't reproduce the warming from about 1978 to 1998 without some forcing, and that the only forcing that they could think of was man. Even this argument assumes that these models adequately deal with natural internal variability—that is, such naturally occurring cycles as El Niño, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, etc. Yet articles from major modeling centers acknowledged that the failure of these models to anticipate the absence of warming for the past dozen years was due to the failure of these models to account for this natural internal variability. Thus even the basis for the weak IPCC argument for anthropogenic climate change was shown to be false."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Harvard University alumniPhysicists from the United StatesMeteorologists from the United StatesMassachusetts Institute of Technology facultyScientists from Massachusetts
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"The Climate Science Isn't Settled", The Wall Street Journal (November 30, 2009)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Richard Lindzen
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Richard Lindzen →
Related Quotes
"The notion that global warming is a fact and will be catastrophic is drilled into people to the point where it seems …"
"With respect to science, the assumption behind consensus is that science is a source of authority and that authority …"
"We're talking of a few tenths of a degree change in temperature. None of it in the last eight years, by the way. And …"
"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"
"Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Tho' there's one motor gone, We can still carry on,…"
"Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext."
"Never underestimate the attention, risk, money, and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic."
"It is easy to run a secure computer system. You merely have to disconnect all dial-up connections and permit only dir…"
"Our forefathers were pioneers. So are we."
"And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?"