Richard Lindzen speaks at Colgate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology Richard Lindzen recently spoke on global warming hysteria at Colgate.

A nice article about his presentation is here.

An excerpt:

"Any prediction of catastrophe is extremely unlikely," Lindzen said. He cited the panic in the 1970s over the prediction of catastrophic American famine in the 1980s, which turned out to be false, as well as the infamous prediction of the Y2K disaster.

"These predictions of catastrophe come up episodically and they are always wrong because they have wrong linkages," Lindzen said.

He then projected a model of the linkages leading from cause -- carbon dioxide emissions -- to effect -- disastrous warming effects -- in global warming and noted that the likelihood of each affecting the next was tiny, and that, in the end, the probability of any major effect of global warming was "astronomically small."