Richard Lindzen Quotes

#1. 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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#2. I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

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

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

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#9. There is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

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

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