No, this note has nothing to do with the whirlwind of debate on Jones Street about dozens of bills subject to the General Assembly’s crossover deadline.
Instead, I’m paraphrasing MIT professor Richard Lindzen, who explained this afternoon in a Raleigh speech why global warming myths persist (video clip):
So much of this issue depends crucially on a lack of critical analysis of anything. People will be shown a graph — like (former Vice President Al) Gore does — that shows one thing, be told it shows another, and accept it.
The crucial thing to remember — this gets back to the attribution issue — is climate can change without any external forcing at all. This is one of the hardest things I find to communicate to people, that this system doesn’t need to have a reason to change, so to speak. It’s a very complex, heterogenenous, nonlinear system. It’s fluid.
Stay tuned to Carolina Journal Radio for an upcoming interview with Lindzen.
