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Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Sci Tech<\/p>\n

Jeff Poor
\nBusiness & Media Institute<\/a>
\nWednesday, May 19th, 2010<\/p>\n

If you listened to Barack Obama back during the 2008 presidential campaign, you may recall him explaining that words matter. According to leading climate scientist and M.I.T. professor Richard Lindzen, there is a good bit of wisdom in that, as it pertains to the debate about global warming.<\/p>\n

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Lindzen, speaking at the Heartland Institute\u2019s International Conference on Climate Change on May 17 in Chicago, explained that by assuming the \u201cskeptic\u201d label, the anti-global warming alarmist movement implies the theory is plausible. And according to the M.I.T. professor, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne suggestion I\u2019d make is we stop accepting the term \u2018skeptic,\u2019\u201d Lindzen said. \u201cAs far as I can tell, skepticism involves doubts about a plausible proposition. I think current global warming alarm does not represent a plausible proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lindzen told the audience the alarmists have simply failed to prove their case.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 20 years \u2013more than 20 years unfortunately, 22 by now, since \u201988 \u2013 of repetition, escalation of claims does not make it more plausible. \u201cQuite the contrary,\u201d he continued. \u201cI would suggest the failure to prove the case of 20 years makes the case even less plausible, as does the evidence of ClimateGate and other instances.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Lindzen ruled out the possibility the imminent destruction as a result of any potential climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, while I avoid making forecasts for tenths of a degree change in global average temperature model, I\u2019m quite willing to state that unprecedented climate catastrophes are not on the horizon, though in several thousand years, we may return to an ice age.\u201d <\/p>\n

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