Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at the MIT

• But --- and I cannot stress this enough --- we are not in a position to confidently attribute past climate change to carbon dioxide or to forecast what the climate will be in the future

• …there is still far too little known to make the jump from the observed climate changes over the past 20 years to the broader claim that human activity will lead to the sort of dire forecasts predicted by many environmentalistsSource: Global warming. The press got it wrong, Wall Street Journal, June 11 2002