THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

2 Jul 06 - Don’t believe the hype. Al Gore is wrong," says Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Science at M.I.T. "There's no ‘consensus’ on global warming.

Mr. Gore assures us that ‘the debate in the scientific community is over’[concerning global warming]," says Lindzen. "It has never been clear to me what this "debate" actually is in the first place.

Lindzen goes on to list three issues that he has with Gores statements:

"Such claims," says Lindzen, "serve to intimidate the public and even scientists--especially those outside the area of climate dynamics.

"Given that the question of human attribution [to so-called global warming] largely cannot be resolved," says Lindzen, "its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam."

And finally: "There is a clear attempt," Lindzen concludes, "to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."

Click here to read more of this fine article by Richard S. Lindzen, published on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, July 2, 2006:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597
Mr. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.
(Thanks to Tom Weatherby for this link.)