Debunking three of the biggest climate change deniers

Richard Lindzen is wrong. On the quotes page as well as the myths page you will find over 30 times he is wrong.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Richard_Lindzen.htm

Here is a summary from 2012 of climate scientists taking on Lindzen.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-scientists-take-on-Richard-Lindzen.html

And here is a dozen errors from 2017.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/brenda-ekwurzel/a-dozen-doozies-setting-the-record-straight-on-richard-lindzens-letter-to-president-trump

Will Harper – His 23 errors.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/William_Happer_arg.htm

A response to a 2018 lecture by Harper, one of many he gives.

“Happer argues that the current concern over human-caused greenhouse gases is overblown. Although he clearly understands basic climate science, his presentation includes claims that are exaggerated, misleading, or incorrect regarding human-caused climate change. His presentation is entertaining, but he argues in many places against claims that climate scientists do not make. He acknowledges that CO2 has an influence on climate, but emphasizes that the influence is small. Yet he gives no physical reason to conclude that the current scientific understanding on the response of climate system to CO2 (the “climate sensitivity”) is wrong, other than to say that he does not trust climate models. His claims that climate models do not work are exaggerated and misleading. He also claims that increased CO2 will be beneficial by increasing plant growth – it is true that plant growth will increase by the CO2 increase alone, but he does not show that it will be beneficial, especially when climate is changing at the same time as CO2. His presentation ignores the large number of studies available that show that through climate change, CO2 will be detrimental to agricultural productivity as well as to human well-being generally.”

and more:

https://www.unc.edu/~jjwest/climatechange.html


Patrick Moore is policy advisor to the Heartland Institute, the leading source of climate change disinformation which has spent many millions provided by energy companies and conservative foundations and billionaires with energy company ties to stop government regulations against climate change.
Greenpeace accuses him of leaving when he saw opposing Greenpeace was much more financially lucrative and his career now is speaking out against climate change.

https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-moore



Bjorn Lomberg is pretty famous for being fully funded by energy companies to deny the severity of climate change.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center


https://www.desmogblog.com/bjorn-lomborg


He got major funding and wrote a book called ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ he was mostly known for along with his later book ‘Cool It’. Another writer decided to write a book examining that books claims. He found every reference cited was wrong or misleading in two chapters. The book ‘The Longborg Deception’ was going to handle the entire book and every citation but it would take years so he skimmed checking the cites in the other chapters. It concludes Lomborg is ‘a performance artist disguised as an academic,’ ‘misrepresenting academic research, misquoting data, relying on irrelevant studies, (omitting important citations and sources), (using the lowest estimates of likely climate changes), and citing sources that seem not to exist.’ Many of the cites appear to be simply cited to build up the number of cites with multiple entries to simply show where a person worked for example.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1nq1hv


http://www.newsweek.com/debunking-lomborg-climate-change-skeptic-75173


A short critical analysis of recent articles.

https://climatefeedback.org/authors/bjorn-lomborg/


Errors in the first book

http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/


There is a reason climate change skeptics rely on lies and misrepresentations. The science and evidence of human-caused global climate change is overwhelming and the warming is accelerating.