Lindzen-Happer Statement to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
We are career physicists with a special expertise in radiation physics, which describes how carbon dioxide and other GHGs affect heat flow in Earth’s atmosphere, and in the dynamics of atmospheric transport of energy and momentum on our rotating planet Earth. We are both members of the National Academy of Sciences, and our CVs are attached. In our scientific opinion, the Endangerment Finding (“EF”),1 is not based on science for four separate reasons: 1. It is based on unscientific evidence. 2. It failed to consider the physics that demonstrates that increasing carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases (“GHGs”) and fossil fuel use will have a trivial effect on temperature and cannot and will not cause catastrophic warming and extreme weather. 3. It failed to consider the essential benefits of carbon dioxide to life on Earth, including that doubling carbon dioxide from today’s 420 parts per million to 840 ppm will increase the world’s food supply by 40%. 4. It failed to consider the science that eliminating carbon dioxide and fossil fuels will have disastrous effects for Americans, America, the poor and people worldwide. |
