When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research. — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
