Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of… — 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 system, have come to be identified with man's activities - engendering fear as well as an… — 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
