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Professor Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken issue with the nonsense espoused by Al Gore and his "Inconvenient Truth" propaganda.

The Nobel Peach Prize givers lost a lot of credibility on that award. Yeah, I meant to write peach and not peace.

Professor Lindzen is a critic of Gore and a whole lot smarter than I or Gore for that matter.

Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences.

Critics of Lindzen call him a mouthpiece for oil companies.  Whatever.

Lindzen's points -

1. " Science is not knowledge. Science is a method for determining what is true, based on observation and theory."

2. "The earth's climate is always changing: At present it seems to be warming, and greenhouse gases that we produce are probably contributing to it, but, for all our wasteful ways, the amounts aren't enough to make a difference."

3. "The severity of storms and droughts, are exaggerated."

4.  "Politics and science are not well suited to each other. Science is about description; politics is about authority and control. Science is disinterested, politics is partisan. Politics distorts science."

5. "The earth is huge, and a still mysterious place in many ways. Much of the problem assessing these questions comes from the difficulty of conceptualizing the scale of the entities involved ― chiefly the atmosphere and the oceans." 

6. It is not better to sign Kyoto. " Combating a hypothetical problem would waste resources, human more than material, which could be much better devoted to other ends, such as improving public health."

7. We'll have squandered much by chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. "When the theory is inevitably discredited and dismissed, possibly after a few bad snowstorms, the whole package of environmentalism will be discredited too, along with all the worthy parts involving the reduction of harmful pollutants and preservation of wildlife habitat."

Let's see, MIT's Lindzen or Gore's blockbuster.

I'll go with Lindzen.

How about you?

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