Advocacy Quote by 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 one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.” quote by Richard Lindzen — Download Open 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 one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.”

Richard Lindzen

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Advocacy Climate change Currents Damage Debate Global warming Important Language Long Long run Long runs May Mislead Precise Replacements Running Science Source

More 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Richard Lindzen

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

Image

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

Richard Lindzen

Image

Explore all 15 Richard Lindzen quotes

More Advocacy quotes

“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne…

Shafter Bailey