who is this man who goes by the name of richard lindzen

who is he and what does he do

tell me everything i need to know

http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/images/portrait-RichardLindzen.jpg

Cliff Richard wrote on May 20^th, 2011 at 1:10pm:

who is this man who goes by the name of richard lindzen who is he and what does he do tell me everything i need to know http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/images/portrait-RichardLindzen.jpg

Why don't you read the page where you got the picture from?

http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/Lindzen.htm

because i get image from google friend. do not look, just paste.

you bum

Cliff Richard wrote on May 20^th, 2011 at 1:19pm:

because i get image from google friend. do not look, just paste. you bum

My friend, you should read this Google. Is very important.

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Richard Lindzen Background Richard S. Lindzen holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University.  Currently, Dr. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorolgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Lindzen's academic interests lie within the topics of "climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability."  According to his curriculum vitae and Google Scholar, Dr. Lindzen has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in the field of climatology. Richard Lindzen and the Heidelberg Appeal Lindzen is a signatory to the Heidelberg Appeal.  The Heidelberg Appeal was created by the International Centre for Scientific Ecology, a public relations front group, during the 1992 UN World Summit.  Eventually the document was endorsed by 4,000 scientists who declared that "we are worried at the dawn of the twenty-first century, at the emergence of an irrational ideology [man-made global warming] which is opposed to scientific and industrial progress and impedes economic and social development." The document also says that "many essential human activities are carried out by manipulating hazardous substances, and that progress and development have always involved increasing control over hostile forces." The prominent climate-change denier Dr. Fred Singer also sat on the board of the International Centre for Scientific Ecology. Dr. Singer and the International Centre for Scientific Ecology consented to the tobacco giant Philip Morris' use of the Heidelberg Appeal to draw support to its European branch of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)—TASSC Europe. TASSC was Philip Morris's front group inititated to question the science that showed the devastating effects of smoking on the human body. Oregon Petition Lindzen is a signatory to the infamous Oregon Petition.  This controversial petition was first circulated in 1998 with an article that appeared to be a reprint of a National Academy of Science peer-reviewed article.  The National Academy of Science has stated that it is not connected in any way with the Oregon Petititon. Richard Lindzen and the Cato Institute Lindzen has worked with the conservative think-tank, the Cato Institute.  The Cato Institute has received $125,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.  In his 1995 article, "The Heat Is On," Ross Gelbspan notes that Lindzen charged oil and coal organizations $2,500 per day for his consulting services. Lindzen has described ExxonMobil as "the only principled oil and gas company I know in the US." Richard Lindzen, the Cooler Heads Coalition, and the Heartland Institute Lindzen has been a speaker at climate change events sponsored by both the Cooler Heads Coalition and the Heartland Institute. The Cooler Heads Coalition has a membership that includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the George C. Marshall Institute, the Fraser Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Independent Institute (TII), the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and the Pacific Research Institute.  Collectively, these organizations have received $5,659,400 in funding from ExxonMobil since 1998. Dr. Lindzen was a keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change in 2008 and 2009.  The sponsors of the conference have collectively received $5,802,000 in funding from ExxonMobil since 1998.  Sponsors for the 2009 conference have received a grand total of over $47 million from energy companies and right-wing foundations. Lindzen is also listed as a "global warming expert" on the Heartland Institute's website. Stance on Climate Change and Global Warming Richard Lindzen's scientific stance on climate change and anthropogenic global warming is that the earth goes through natural periods of global warming and cooling. According to Dr. Lindzen, the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are problematic and limited because they are based on computer models which Lindzen says are "generally recognized as experimental tools whose relation to the real world is questionable." Furthermore, Lindzen feels that the issue of global warming is completely political, and that policy makers and the media not only manipulate science but also force scientists to produce work that supports a particular agenda. Richard Lindzen Signs Open Letters Denying Climate Change 2007 open letter to UN Secretary-General Lindzen was a signatory to a 2007 open letter to Un Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that declared "It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages." The letter further explains how carbon dioxide is a "non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis" and why the IPCC's reports are "inadequate as justification" for implementing climate change policy.

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Leipzig Declaration Lindzen was also a signatory to the 2005 Leipzig Declaration which describes the Kyoto Protocol as "dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive to jobs and standards-of-living." The Declaration further states that "there does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide." The Declaration, available in two versions, was penned by prominent climate-change denier Fred Singer's Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).  SEPP has received at least $20,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.   2004 Open Letter to Senator John McCain Lindzen signed a 2004 open letter to John McCain that refuted findings by the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA).   The letter concludes that that past past warming in the arctic cannot be attributed to greenhouse gas concentrations: "Arctic climate has and will continue to exhibit intricate patterns not reliably reproduced by global climate simulations, thus underscoring their scientific incompleteness and need for advances in Arctic climate science, in measurements, theory and models." It was signed by numerous prominent climate change skeptics including R. Timothy Patterson, Tim Ball, David Legates, Pat Michaels, Gary D. Sharp, Roy W. Spencer, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas. Richard Lindzen and the Science, Health, and Economic Advisory Council Lindzen is a member of the Science, Health, and Economic Advisory Council at the Annapolis Center. According to their website, The Annapolis Center is a "national, non-profit, educational organization that supports and promotes responsible energy, environmental, health, and safety decision-making." The center is committed to "ensuring public policy decisions are based on scientific facts and reasoning."  To this end, they contend that global warming is not the result of burning fossil fuels.  The oil giant ExxonMobil has given $1,048,500 to the Annapolis Center since 1998. In 2004, the Center honoured Senator James Inhofe at its annual dinner for his work in "promoting science-based public policy."  Apart from being a zealeous climate change skeptic, Senator Inhofe is also one of the leading public figures fighting to prevent the federal government from accepting the claims of a scientific consensus. The Center has further ties to the oil industry: In 1998 the Annapolis Center Strategic Planning Committee was co-chaired by William O'Keefe from the American Petroleum Institute.  And individuals employed by Philip Morris, Pfizer Inc., Exxon Corporation and the American Petroleum Institute were present at the Committee's October 1998 meeting. Richard Lindzen the Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process conference Lindzen took part in a conference titled "Scientific Integrity in the Public Policy Process," that was organized by SEPP and George Mason University's International Institute. The conference invited numerous journalists to a "special media session," where the organizers went through the conference's overall themes which were described as follows:    "The conference discussion underscored two themes: (1) the need for stringent, open, external peer-review of the scientific basis of federal environmental actions, and (2) distortions in the teaching of environmental issues, i.e. 'Who peer-reviews what is being taught under the guise of environmental education?'" Lindzen spoke on a panel that accused any scientists supporting the conclusion of AGW (Anthropogenic [man-made] Global Warming) of "distorting the issues," "distorting logic," "using science to advance a political agenda," and even "intimidating other scientists through coercion." Richard Lindzen and Western Fuels According to Ross Gelbspan's 1995 article The Heat Is On, Lindzen was one of three expert witnesses that were hired to testify on behalf of Western Fuels Association, a "$400 million consortium: of coal suppliers and coal-powered utilities." The hearings were to determine the environmental cost of burning coal by state power plants. Richard Lindzen and the Climate Bet Lindzen said in November 2004, that that he would be the climate would be colder in 20 years. When James Annan, a British climate researcher, approached Lindzen about solidifying the bet, Lindzen would only agree if Annan would accept a 50-to-1 payout (Annan did not agree to those terms). Anan eventually made the $10,000 wager with two Russian Solar physicists, Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev.

Cliff Richard wrote on May 20^th, 2011 at 1:19pm:

because i get image from google friend. do not look, just paste. you bum

You call me a bum with a face like that?

I was fascinated to read that Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorolgy at MIT. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a principal sponsor of Radiolab. Perhaps this explains the silence of that otherwise excellent podcast on the matter of climate change?

Lindzen also featured on Media Watch on 30 May.