MIT Scientist Slaps Down Claim that 2015 was Hottest on Record


Dr. Richard Lindzen is not convinced by the “evidence” produced from “climate models” (fancy video games) that January is the hottest January on record.

From The Daily Caller:

Frankly, I feel it is proof of dishonesty to argue about things like small fluctuations in temperature or the sign of a trend,” Lindzen, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells the science blog Climate Depot. “Why lend credibility to this dishonesty?”

“All that matters is that for almost 40 years, model projections have almost all exceeded observations,” Lindzen says. “Even if all the observed warming were due to greenhouse emissions, it would still point to low sensitivity.”

Then there is the issue of how data is measured:

He also cautions that surface-based temperature readings — taken by weather stations, buoys, ships and other means — are subject to biases and errors that can make them highly unreliable. Lindzen has pointed out in the past that “70% of the earth is oceans, we can’t measure those temperatures very well.”

“They can be off a half a degree, a quarter of a degree,” he said in November. “Even two-10ths of a degree of change would be tiny but two-100ths is ludicrous. Anyone who starts crowing about those numbers shows that they’re putting spin on nothing.”

Satellite temperature readings found 2015 to be the third or fourth warmest on record.

After so many years with millions of dollars spent, one data manipulation scandal after another, one would think that the “climate science” ruse would be up.

January 2015 may not have been the hottest on record but it did see a lot of hot air in the press.

Source: The Daily Caller



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