Dr Curry -
Is there much in the whole climate debate that isn’t relevant to this talk, and therefore this thread?
In slide 19 Lindzen talks about the two necessary ingredients for climate panic – 1) The magnitude of warming and 2) The relation of warming of any magnitude to the projected catastrophe.
I think this misses a third ingredient – the rapidity of warming. Whenever I argue for the extraordinary adaptiveness of both life ingeneral and the human species in particular, I’m invariably told by some doom-endian that it is the speed of the change that’s the problem”, which as far as I know is based on negative imagination and nothing else.
Otherwise, I’m grateful for your comments, especially noting the similarity of confidence between Lindzen’s world view and that of the IPCC (to say nothing of the ultra-alarmists).