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MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’
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Richard S. Lindzen
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Date: August 30, 2013 12:35AM
Throughout history, governments have twisted science to suit a political agenda. Global warming is no different, according to Dr. Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Global climate alarmism has been costly to society, and it has the potential to be vastly more costly. It has also been damaging to science, as scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions,” writes Lindzen in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
According to Lindzen, scientists make essentially “meaningless” claims about certain phenomenon. Activists for certain causes take up claims made by scientists and politicians respond to the alarmism spread by activists by doling out more research funding. — creating an “Iron Triangle” of poor incentives.
“How can one escape from the Iron Triangle when it produces flawed science that is immensely influential and is forcing catastrophic public policy?” Lindzen asks.
Lindzen compares global warming to past politicized scientific movements: the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century and Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union under Stalin. However, the MIT professor argues that global warming goes even beyond what these past movements in terms of twisting science.
“Global Warming has become a religion,” writes Lindzen. “A surprisingly large number of people seem to have concluded that all that gives meaning to their lives is the belief that they are saving the planet by paying attention to their carbon footprint.”
“There may be a growing realization that this may not add all that much meaning to one’s life, but, outside the pages of the Wall Street Journal, this has not been widely promulgated, and people with no other source of meaning will defend their religion with jihadist zeal,” he added.
Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D., is professor of atmospheric sciences, emeritus,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://www.jpands.org/vol18no3/lindzen.pdf
“Global climate alarmism has been costly to society, and it has the potential to be vastly more costly. It has also been damaging to science, as scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions,” writes Lindzen in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
According to Lindzen, scientists make essentially “meaningless” claims about certain phenomenon. Activists for certain causes take up claims made by scientists and politicians respond to the alarmism spread by activists by doling out more research funding. — creating an “Iron Triangle” of poor incentives.
“How can one escape from the Iron Triangle when it produces flawed science that is immensely influential and is forcing catastrophic public policy?” Lindzen asks.
Lindzen compares global warming to past politicized scientific movements: the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century and Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union under Stalin. However, the MIT professor argues that global warming goes even beyond what these past movements in terms of twisting science.
“Global Warming has become a religion,” writes Lindzen. “A surprisingly large number of people seem to have concluded that all that gives meaning to their lives is the belief that they are saving the planet by paying attention to their carbon footprint.”
“There may be a growing realization that this may not add all that much meaning to one’s life, but, outside the pages of the Wall Street Journal, this has not been widely promulgated, and people with no other source of meaning will defend their religion with jihadist zeal,” he added.
Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D., is professor of atmospheric sciences, emeritus,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://www.jpands.org/vol18no3/lindzen.pdf
Re: MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’
Posted by:
Islam, The Religion of Peace™
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Date: August 30, 2013 12:39AM
But is it a Religion of Peace?
Re: MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’
Posted by:
Liberal Logic 27
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Date: August 30, 2013 12:53AM
Islam, The Religion of Peace™ Wrote:
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> But is it a Religion of Peace?
Religion of taxation and self importance. The global warming movement is and always has been an excuse to raise taxes on people and businesses while giving the supporters a false sense of superiority. The data has matched up with the rhetoric for several years now, hence pretty much everyone except Obama has gone completely quiet on the issue.
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> But is it a Religion of Peace?
Religion of taxation and self importance. The global warming movement is and always has been an excuse to raise taxes on people and businesses while giving the supporters a false sense of superiority. The data has matched up with the rhetoric for several years now, hence pretty much everyone except Obama has gone completely quiet on the issue.
Re: MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’
Posted by:
Richard S. Lindzen
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Date: August 30, 2013 12:58AM
Islam, The Religion of Peace™ Wrote:
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> But is it a Religion of Peace?
Sorry, no tolerance for dissenting views or any questioning of the science in this case. It's a fundamentalist, faith-based movement.
Amen.
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> But is it a Religion of Peace?
Sorry, no tolerance for dissenting views or any questioning of the science in this case. It's a fundamentalist, faith-based movement.
Amen.
Re: MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’
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BEH
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Date: August 30, 2013 07:19AM
If you can believe in a man in the sky that is controling your life, global warming is not a far stretch.
Re: MIT professor: global warming is a ‘religion’
Posted by:
Angry dad
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Date: August 30, 2013 07:39AM
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