Hi Nick, Sorry for not responding sooner. Richard Lindzen is pretty well regarded among the climate change "skeptics." Here's a link to a recent talk of his:
https://youtu.be/eRwYZV-hYnA Shawn On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > > > I will be repatriated to Santa Fe soon and look forward to seeing you in > October. > > > > In the meantime, could you possibly help me with the following. Clark > University is proposing a forum on climate change. I want that forum to be > honest, so I am wondering if anybody in this group can propose me the names > of some skeptics who are sober, thoughtful, and have not resorted to > throwing snowballs in the senate, so I could propose those names to the > convening committee. My thought was that in a forum on climate change, > which would include, of course, many sessions on consequences and > remediation, should be at least one in which the whole consensus is put in > doubt. > > > > My note to the committee is appended below, in case you are curious. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *My fear here is that this will be one of those discussions where the > choir sings to itself. In Santa Fe, I sit with a group of highly trained > engineers and hard scientists among whom are a few who are climate-change > doubters. These are folks who seem otherwise rational, so I have to take > them seriously. Now, I think it’s fair to say that every conversation > amongst the climate change faithful should not be gummed up by a few folks > who doubt that it is happening at all. For instance, we need to talk > amongst ourselves about justice issues, How to respond so that its > consequences will not fall disproportionately upon the weak and poor, > However, I also think we should devote at least one session to bridging the > gap between doubters and us faithful. I suggest a session title, “Can a > rational person doubt human-originated climate change?” and see who you can > find that can explore the weaknesses in our consensus with the hope that > such testing will make us more rational. * > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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