Global Warming

While O’Reilly is supportive of the Bush administration in many areas, especially its anti-terrorism and Iraq policies, he has resorted to cheap shots over its handling of environmental matters. “Most everybody, with the possible exception of some in the Bush cabinet, wants a clean environment,” O’Reilly has written. He accepts the theory that human beings are causing global warming through the discharge of fossil fuels and he joined the anti-sport-utility-vehicle campaign launched by Arianna Huffington, Hollywood liberals and environmental activists. “Bill’s with us on this issue,” said Hollywood producer Lawrence Bender.

O’Reilly has written that, “Many reputable scientists say there’s no question that things are heating up fast, and they have the data to prove it.” But Dr. Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told us, “That’s nonsense.” Lindzen’s view is important because, on the show with Kincaid, O’Reilly had said, “My guys at MIT, who I think are the best in the world, say no question, all this fossil fuel is hurting the earth.”

Lindzen, who has never appeared on O’Reilly’s program, is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. Lindzen has engaged in climate and climate-related research for over 30 years and has testified before Congress. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the author or coauthor of over 200 papers and books, and a participant in the proceedings of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Lindzen says the global mean temperature has increased roughly 0.5EC over the past century, but there is no evidence it is linked to human emissions of fossil fuels. And even if there is such a link, he says, this would not imply there is a problem.

Article courtesy of Accuracy in Media
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