Richard Lindzen

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And they managed to ride that out by just keeping on demanding that it be accepted.

It's interesting.

As I mentioned before, I think for some people, its importance is it gives, quote, meaning to their life.

Yeah.

Let me back off that a little because one of the things that is sort of strange is the narrative itself deals with global temperature.

Not clear what that is.

I mean, some average over the whole globe.

How do you take it?

What do you do with it?

But more than that, what is climate?

And, you know, there is a definition.

It's an arbitrary definition.

And it's that it's time variation on time scales longer than 30 years.

It's pretty arbitrary.

But it distinguishes it from weather, which is changes from day to day or week to week.

They start calling it climate change.

Okay now you can take data from every station and filter it to get rid of everything shorter than 30 years.

That's called a low pass filter.

And you can look at that and each station and see how does it correlate with the globe.