A perfect world?
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says in the 04/16/2007 issue of Newsweek International:What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare. Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature—a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.Aha! A true scientist whose specialty is the climate. Those who believe they are politically correct attack him with fallacious ad hominem statements. What else is new, eh?
Criminy! Just checked out Clayton Cramer's blog and find he and I are thinking together. That's not unusual. However, Clayton is usually more articulate than I.
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