"When an issue becomes a vital part of……" — 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 goal rather than a consequence of scientific research."
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Richard Lindzen
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13 Quotes by Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen has 13 quotes on this site.
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Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
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Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If…
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According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather…
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In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation…
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The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part…
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Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural…
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a…
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I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how…
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The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.
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In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings…
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In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines…
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Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry…
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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's…
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It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American…
— John Boehner
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're…
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot…
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want…
— Eric Cantor
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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction…
— Eric Cantor
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public…
— Eric Alterman
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Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It…
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