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  • Shez on Flying Foxes and little girls I wouldn't wish bad on anyone, but maybe if one of these judges that give out these so called punishments are victims of a ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification Halal in the Bible... FROM THE BIBLE: Deuteronomy 14:3-10. Do not eat any detestable thing. These are the animals you may ... more
  • David T on Tony Abbott does a Turnbull Tony, we need a strong opposition not a fickle oppostion. Please don't give the government any more ammunition as this will ... more
  • Albert on Flying Foxes and little girls These laws prove once again that the environmental movement is not about taking action to protect human life and future ... more
  • angry on ETS Police SUBJECT: 'Execute' Skeptics! Shock Call To Action: 'At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers' -- ... more
  • unimpressed on Flying Foxes and little girls Fetalaiga's 18 month ban from driving just shows the level of stupidity of both the law makers and the magistrates that ... more
  • Lynne on Flying Foxes and little girls The only thing in Queensland that is better protected than these disease riddled flying vermin are bureaucrats. When are ... more
  • LEONARD on Separation of Powers The Doctrine of the Separation of Powers has become simply a joke. It purpose is to separate the Legislature, the Executive ... more
  • Anne Scott on Halal certification You are missing the point, Shez. We, Australian taxpayers, begrudge paying Mr El-Mouelhy a levy on products he has managed ... more
  • Wobblyone on Halal certification Hey Angry... Shez is either Muslim or one of the idiot do-gooders that can't tell which way its bum is pointed. And Shez... ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification G'day angry. How are you today? Yes I am Australian, and bloody proud of it. I'm off to have some Cadbury's Dairy Milk. If ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification You are refusing to buy Bega cheese for what reason?! As I said earlier, Bananas are Halal. As are apples, and most food ... more
  • angry on Halal certification Obviously, this "Shez" has no concept of the problem in the UK caused by these muslims! Clearly, YOU, have no care or ... more
  • Wobblyone on Halal certification Everybody should try requiring the cashier to check all your items for Halel Certification. And then refuse them. or, If ... more
  • Ian Daft on Racists in our midst It get to me, evey time a knock on the door it has to be a Indian what is going on with australia more
  • Liberator on Racists in our midst No, Smithy. I don't want an apology. If that's how the sanctimonious pseudo "anti-racist" media and Indian Community are ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification You guys really crack me up. Carry on with the ignorance, It's making me laugh! Boycott vegemite! More for me! more
  • unimpressed on Racists in our midst After years of being abused when I have refused to buy yet another bloody mobile phone from an Indian caller and after ... more
  • Justin on Tony Abbott does a Turnbull Is anyone else getting sick of public policy being determined by Tony Abbott's daughters? Just when you thought there might ... more
  • Carole on Racists in our midst Every time an Indian (Unusally a taxi driver)is responsible for a rape or a manslaughter on an Australian -it's barely ... more

Deconstructing Global Warming

Posted by: Michael Smith | 4 November, 2009 - 6:57 PM
global warming

Listen to Michael Smith's chat with Professor Lindzen - Interview

Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Bio

Professor Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist with interests in the broad topics of climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability. His research involves studies of the role of the tropics in mid-latitude weather and global heat transport, the moisture budget and its role in global change, the origins of ice ages, seasonal effects in atmospheric transport, stratospheric waves, and the observational determination of climate sensitivity.

He has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, which dominates the atmospheric transport of heat and momentum from the tropics to higher latitudes, and has advanced the understanding of the role of small scale gravity waves in producing the reversal of global temperature gradients at the mesopause, and provided accepted explanations for atmospheric tides and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the tropical stratosphere. He pioneered the study of how ozone photochemistry, radiative transfer and dynamics interact with each other.

He is currently studying what determines the pole to equator temperature difference, the nonlinear equilibration of baroclinic instability and the contribution of such instabilities to global heat transport. He has also been developing a new approach to air-sea interaction in the tropics, and is actively involved in parameterizing the role of cumulus convection in heating and drying the atmosphere and in generating upper level cirrus clouds. He has developed models for the Earth's climate with specific concern for the stability of the ice caps, the sensitivity to increases in CO2, the origin of the 100,000 year cycle in glaciation, and the maintenance of regional variations in climate.

Prof. Lindzen is a recipient of the AMS's Meisinger, and Charney Awards, the AGU's Macelwane Medal, and the Leo Huss Walin Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, and has been a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Council of the AMS.

He has also been a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Ph.D., '64, S.M., '61, A.B., '60, Harvard University)

Blog comments Your Say

  • Wow, looks like the right wingers have this blog covered.You have Abbott because Turnbull is an honest man and knows 'the truth', that climate change is REAL. Your spin doctors are giving the whole world a big laugh. Australia has the only political party, anywhere that steadfastly refuses to understand what is going on. Big business has again taken over the Liberals and are dictating policy. Yes Abbott will be 'road kill' in the next elections but 'they' don't care about anything but their profits, even if that kills everything and everyone. At least Turnbull has balls and is an honest man, why else did the 'power lobby' get rid of him? You deserve Abbott...lol.

    Bob Sunday 13 December, 2009 - 11:32 AM

  • Flannery drowns in contradictions !!!!!!!!

    http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/flannery_drowns_in_contradictions/

    angry Monday 30 November, 2009 - 5:22 AM

  • Have a read of this.

    Climate change data dumped

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece

    Brandon Sunday 29 November, 2009 - 9:22 PM

  • Where there is money to be made there will always be the
    risk of official or corporate
    corruption.With the ETS the
    amount of money involved is
    enormous.Already allegations
    of carbon trading corruption
    have surfaced in PNG.Is there
    anything to suggest that the
    same cannot happen here or
    anywhere else.The obvious
    and correct answer is no.
    Who is going to police this
    and who is going to watch
    them. It looks as though the
    Rudds and Wongs of this world
    want to create a nightmare
    and then try to make us believe that it is all for
    our own good.Thet might have
    a hard time doing that

    peter hansen Sunday 29 November, 2009 - 10:20 AM

  • Turnbull is about to go, and
    Rudd will have to go to that
    circus in Copenhagen without
    his shiny new toy.The whole
    ETS nonsense now might have
    to be laid open to a real
    investigaton,a thought that
    terrifies people like Rudd
    and Wong.We might even have
    a Liberal leader with the
    sense to listen to the real
    Australians and the courage
    to stand up to the climate
    change fanatics.And all of
    this because thousands of
    average Australians screamed
    out one word loudly and
    clearly.That word was NO,no
    ETS,no CPRS.What we might
    have here is a victory for
    People Power.Wouldnt that be
    nice to see for once

    peter hansen Friday 27 November, 2009 - 10:26 PM

  • Congratulations Tony Abbott and the other members who resigned today based on Principles and for not following like blind sheep. Can someone start looking after Mr and Mrs Joe Public, the ones paying all the bills.

    Marlynn Smith Thursday 26 November, 2009 - 7:31 PM

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