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Adams, Bryan prom: Michael Price [mprice1@nsatel.net] gent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:07 AM To: Adams, Bryan; Adams, Troy; Zehringer, Vance Subject: Fw: Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Price To: Michael Price work Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:04 PM Subject: Fw: Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist ----- Original Message ----- From: Akfler .aol.com To: undisclosed-recipients: Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 2:33 PM Subject: Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist This Earth Day, Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, wants you to calm down. The Earth, he says, is in good shape. "Forests are returning in Europe and the United States. Air quality has improved. Water quality has improved. We grow more food on less sand. We've done a reasonably good job in much of the world in conquering hunger. And yet we're acting as though: "How can we stand any more of this?" A leading critic on the theory of man-made global warming, Professor Lindzen has developed a reputation as America's anti-doom-andgloom scientist. And he's not, he says, as lonely as you might think. Q You don't dispute that the globe is warming? A It has never been an issue of whether the Earth is warming -- because it's always warming or cooling. The issue is: What are the magnitudes involved? It's a big difference if it's warming a degree or two or 10, or if it's warming a few tenths of a degree. Q And it's inconclusive how much it's warming? A Sure it's inconclusive. It's a very hard thing to analyze because you have to average huge fluctuations over the whole Earth, and 70% of the Earth is oceans where you don't have weather stations So you get different groups analyzing this. end they're pretty close. One group gets over the last century a warming of about .55 degrees centigrade. Another group says it's .75 degrees.