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Some researchers argue that even with these caveats the report overstates the case. Says Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric scientist at M.I.T.: "The margin of error in these models is a factor of 10 or more larger than the effect you're looking...
...Even if Lindzen is wrong and the IPCC report is right, there might not be much anyone could do. Slashing emissions of greenhouse gases to stave off global warming would be straightforward enough, but that doesn't mean it would be easy. Among the strategies recommended in the new report: switching from coal and oil to natural gas, turning to nuclear and solar energy, slowing deforestation, altering land-use and traffic patterns, curbing automobile use, changing life-styles and employment patterns...
...developed world would have to completely transform their society, and rich countries like the U.S. would have to subsidize poor but fast-developing nations like China. And that's just to roll CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts it, "If you said, 'Let's design...
...Sloan Professor of Meteorology Richard S. Lindzen '60. His specialty is global warming, which he thinks is bunk. The business world and conservatives who oppose emissions standards love him for this--Fortune (?) magazine even featured him in a cover issue last spring...
...Lindzen says he has never advised the Bush Administration in any formal way on environmental policies, but admits that he and Sununu have "talked about warming...