Richard Lindzen

is an example of innumeracy.

In other words, what they argue is that a molecule of methane has more greenhouse potential than a molecule of CO2.

And so cutting back methane will have a big effect.

But there's so little methane in the atmosphere that if you got rid of all of it, it would have almost no effect compared to CO2.

Somehow that step in the arithmetic gets lost.

It began right at the beginning of the issue.

As I was mentioning, I mean, already by 1989, Science Magazine was... In fact, one of the ironies with Science Magazine, which is, you know, an important magazine, it had an editor who was Marsha McNutt, who actually had an op-ed appear in Science Magazine saying she would not accept any article that questioned this.

And you know what her reward was?

She became president of the National Academy of Science.

She was a good girl.

Yeah.

No, I mean, the internet...

not surprisingly, was an unpredictable phenomenon.

You saw it, but you're seeing it yourself.

You have media.

They were looking for 100,000 subscribers.

With the internet, you're dealing with millions, and that's considered small in some cases.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure about this, but my recollection was, as a kid in New York, that you had newspapers like the New York Times that were always sort of center left, but you had others, the Journal American and so on, and they differed in their coverage, but on the whole, they covered the same news.

If something happened, it would appear in both.

I realize in retrospect that wasn't always true.