Friday
Feb242012
by 
Josh
Josh Lindzen in London - Josh 152
Below are the cartoon notes from the superb lecture by Richard Lindzen on Wednesday 22nd Feb 2012.
The notes do not do the talk justice in any way and one or two are a bit obscure. They might make more sense if you read the pdf notes here. Click the image below to see a larger version - warning, it is quite big!
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Update on Feb 27, 2012 by
Josh
Josh
Video Part 1
Video Part 2
Reader Comments (12)
Very impressive Josh, and the portrait is seriously gallery-worthy.
I'll even forgive you for spelling Eocene like that.
Oops! Fixed, thank you!
Anyone have a video link yet? There's nothing quite like Lindzen's speech style to listen to his points.
"I've been doing this for 4.5 billion years"
A very good point.. :-)
You don’t need to read the .pdf file, the Lindzen’s expression tells it all.
Great one Josh
vuk
Great cartoon, Josh! Now I have to listen to the talk.
Nitpick: "alarming cognative dissonance" should be "cognitive".
Josh,
Very Lindzenesque . . . . .
John
From the blog post in the Independent titled 'Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millennium Bug, a mistake?' by Simon Carr-
'He concluded with an exposition of science that, frankly, I didn’t follow. However, the reliability and explanatory power of climate models was satirised convincingly. And I found myself believing – or accepting the possibility – that warming would reduce rather than increase tropical storms.
He also said that the IPCC needs “positive feedback mechanisms” to justify anything above a one degree C increase in their predictions. But: “Observation points to small negative feedbacks.”
How to explain the procession of eminent opinion leaders – some even in our own Royal Society – who advance the tenets of catastrophic global warming? “It is science in the service of politics,” he said.
If Lindzen is right, we will never be able to calculate the trillions that have been spent on the advice of “scientists in the service of politics”.'
“It is science in the service of politics,”
Doesn't that really say it all? And there's a gift of a title for some future book author.
Gary, thanks. I will fix.
Hi,
I tried the link to get the PDF notes and got the following message, "The page /storage/RSL-HouseOfCommons-2012.pdf could not be located on this website."
Cheers
Robin
Robin
Use the following link for Lindzen’s pdf file.
http://bit.ly/wWIUpy
Misrepresentation from Lindzen
Never mind. One day you might just get something credible to back you up.