WUWT
Lindzen starts with the meme: 97% of scientists agree, which was exposed as a myth by Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer in the Wall Street Journal.
Another mime is “warmest years on record,” which covers many
misconceptions. The prior warmest year, since about 1850 in the surface
record, was 1998. A slight increase above that is immediately seized as
evidence of dire global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, even
though it cannot be felt by humans, given the enormous temperature
range existing on the globe each day.
As Lindzen shows, from 1850 the “Globally Averaged Deviations from
Average Temperatures Plotted on a Scale Relevant to the Individual
Station Deviations” are remarkably stable over time. It is only by
manipulating scales for visual impact, called “chartsmanship’, that the
change appears significant. When Lindzen adds the range of uncertainty
in the measurements, the record is far from clear. The same applies to
the influence of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Similarly, Lindzen demolishes other memes; including extreme weather,
sea level rise, Arctic sea ice, polar bear endangerment, ocean
acidification, and death of coral reefs. These memes lead those who are
not sceptics to accept that CO2 causes global warming and that global
warming is the cause of everything. ..."
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