There is only one goddess Gaia and Al Gore is her only prophet...

[kandrathe]

He might tick the "D" box on the ballot, but he's firmly in the other camp on these issues. Being a contrarian scientist is one thing - publishing in the National Post and the WSJ is another.

As always, the question is the balance. Where does the weight of evidence sit? You can find isolated individuals (even ones with credentials) arguing just about any side of any issue. Sometimes, they're right. Often, they're not. Lindzen's academic credentials are fine, there's no reason to dismiss his work out of hand. However, on climate, his views are against the grain of the field. (The same is true of smoking, although that one obviously isn't his field.)

I actually think he is more of a moderate. It's the old adage, "Correlation does not indicate causality". Yes, the temperature is on balance rising, which may have something to do with CO2. But, it might also have something more to do with something else (like micro particulates or the sun). I don't see the big disaster looming around the next decade, or probably even the next century.

The bottom line is that whatever the politicians are cooking up in Copenhagen will not undo whatever CO2 build up that has occurred over the past 200 years. We aren't talking about solutions like salting the atmosphere with sulfur dioxide or building solar powered automaton catamarans that sail around the oceans churning up salt mists now are we. No, in Copenhagen they are negotiating how to create a global tax on the citizens of the industrialized nations to be deposited in the world bank. Follow the money.