Climate Quotes by Richard Lindzen

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

— Richard Lindzen

The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where…

— Richard Lindzen

In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific…

— Richard Lindzen

Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or…

— Richard Lindzen

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

— Richard Lindzen

Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth…

— Richard Lindzen

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

— Richard Lindzen

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase…

— Richard Lindzen

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a…

— Richard Lindzen

In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be…

— Richard Lindzen

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

— Richard Lindzen

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane…

— Richard Lindzen