MIT professor of meteorology Richard S. Lindzen speaks out against the methods used to claim man made global warming in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Link here.
Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally—such as for the last dozen years or so—it does little that can be discerned.
Claims that climate change is accelerating are bizarre. There is general support for the assertion that GATA has increased about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the middle of the 19th century. The quality of the data is poor, though, and because the changes are small, it is easy to nudge such data a few tenths of a degree in any direction. Several of the emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have caused such a public ruckus dealt with how to do this so as to maximize apparent changes.
He goes on to lay out some basic terminology and methods that you will never hear or read about in any MSM outlet. Very well done and made for even the most casual observer of the topic.
I wonder if the Climategate emails will open the doors for more professors to reach out to news outlets like the WSJ. We know that science journals keep such articles from getting published and of course speaking out against man made global warming is akin to openly believing in God in the Academic world. But will enough researchers risk their careers, and funding for their departments, by speaking out in large enough numbers to break through wall of political correctness which makes up the MSM? Only time will tell.
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