Letter To Newsweek Re: Richard Lindzen, Climate Skeptic

[RestoreGore]

This is in response to this thread I posted a couple of days ago http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=659088&mesg_id=659088 regarding the Newsweek piece printed by Richard Lindzen wherein they left out his "associations" in order to skew the purpose of his article. If we don't fight this at the source, we have only ourselves to blame for the fallout.
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It is totally irresponsible of Newsweek to print an article by Richard Lindzen without noting his true credentials. You failed to note that he was a signatory to the Leipzig Declaration and is also tied to the George C. Marshall institute, a think tank that also has ties with EXXON. You do a great disservice not only to the truth but to the climate scientists who have truly studied this crisis and determined that human behavior is indeed contributing to the global climate crisis we face by belittling their work in such a manner.

How dare you deem to support playing down a crisis that has already shown itself to millions around the world in Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia, as well as the U.S. The evidence backed up in 928 peer reviewed journals that is corroborated by 2000 scientists in over 150 countries, the IPCC, NASA, the NAS, and countless reports and peer reviewed journals shows that we truly do need to be concerned. That is not “shrill alarmism” or being “gloomy,” that is reality. Did you also know that Mr. Lindzen has apparently never had any of his opinions regarding consensus on this crisis published in a peer reviewed journal? Here is a link I discovered in researching Mr. Lindzen (which you should have obviously done) which actually mentions that he did indeed charge a fee to oil and coal companies and his article, "Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus," was underwritten by OPEC. Perhaps he can then defend this information or refute it.

http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/Lindzen.htm


And FYI, some of the solutions to this crisis in the form of carbon caps, sequestration, conservation, and development of solar energy and other renewable sources are not gloomy in the slightest. It is the visionary, hopeful, and innovative solutions like these that will lift poor nations which are feeling the brunt of this crisis out of poverty and also give them hope for the future.

Perhaps your next article should then delve a bit deeper into the actual credentials of those who contribute articles with absolutely no basis in fact while hiding their associations. The people of this country deserve much better than this, and Mr. Lindzen should be ashamed of himself for continuing to seemingly support the very industries that exacerbate a crisis that we should now be joining together to solve rather than using it for partisan political gain.

I have usually read Newsweek, but this strains to the limits the credibility I once placed in your publication. This climate crisis is nothing to play games with, and it is only through voices of hope, inspiration, truth and reality that we will face it in the coming years to leave a better world for our children. Regardless of your view on how climate change is affecting this planet, the fact is that it is, and the longer we waste time arguing and getting sidetracked in debate the less time we will have to actually do something about it. I would dare say, that with the printing of this piece without the proper information, Newsweek has then stated it is not part of the solution but the problem. How disappointing.



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[nam78_two]

1. K&R/nt

[RestoreGore]

4. Thank you. I wish more cared about this because it is important n/t

[pretzel4gore]

2. 2 guys playing russian roulette...

the one guy says 'global warming/weather change due to human activity is dangerous' and he loads his weapon, the other guy says 'no, there's no human activity involved in weather change; the world is too huge' and he loads his weapon...the difference is the 1st guy only puts 1 bullet in the 100 round chamber before he spins it- the global warming skeptic put 99 bullets into his 100 round chamber before he spins it.
guess what happens...

[RestoreGore]

3. Is anyone else going to write to set the record straight?

Or are we going to once again allow these bastards to set the tone of the debate that should now be on to solutions?

[leftchick]

5. thank you

K&R

What an excellent letter. CNN has been doing the same thing, giving voices to Exxon's paid shills. Disgusting.

[RestoreGore]

6. Thank you, and I have also been writing letters to my community leaders as well...

And have finally gotten An Inconvenient Truth to be shown in our schools! It can be done if people just don't give up in speaking for truth. I am sick and tired of this media and their collusion with the darker elements that have robbed this country of its Demcocratic soul, and it's time to take it back.