Independent on Lindzen

Richard Lindzen's talk in London yesterday is reported at the Independent:

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”.

Interesting to see the Independent giving such a fair hearing to a sceptic.

Update on Feb 23, 2012 by Bishop Hill

Lindzen's talk can be seen here.

Comments

[jimspice]

Just for posterity sake, Lindzen's slide 12 from which the "we also can't predict the past" quote is taken, was shown to be wrong (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/03/misrepresentation-from-lindzen) and Lindzen was forced to issue a retraction and apology (http://repealtheact.org.uk/blog/apology-from-prof-lindzen-for-howard-haydens-nasa-giss-data-interpretation-error).