Lindzen: IPCC more certain just as its models fall apart Nicely put by Professor Richard Lindzen, the great climate scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence," Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot... "They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claimed it was 95 percent sure that global warming was mainly driven by human burning of fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gases. The I.P.C.C. also glossed over the fact that the Earth has not warmed in the past 15 years, arguing that the heat was absorbed by the ocean. "Their excuse for the absence of warming over the past 17 years is that the heat is hiding in the deep ocean," Lindzen added. However, this is simply an admission that the models fail to simulate the exchanges of heat between the surface layers and the deeper oceans. "However, it is this heat transport that plays a major role in natural internal variability of climate, and the IPCC assertions that observed warming can be attributed to man depend crucially on their assertion that these models accurately simulate natural internal variability," Lindzen continued. Thus, they now, somewhat obscurely, admit that their crucial assumption was totally unjustified. Thanks to reader Electric Zorro.