Lindzen Quotes

#1. Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

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

Richard Lindzen

#3. 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.

Richard Lindzen

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

Richard Lindzen

#5. Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art
there is the history of artists.

Marianne Von Werefkin

#6. 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

#7. I've learned that when evil crawls out of a snake pit, you have to track it down and squash it. Then you have to assume it had babies and go looking for them too.

Robin York

#8. My heart is too bruised and I want to keep the pain as a reminder. I don't want sunlight on it. I don't want it to heal. Because if it does, I might be tempted to use it again.

Nicola Yoon

#9. I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,

Jane Green

#10. If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

Jimmy Piersall

#11. 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

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

Richard Lindzen

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

Thomas Perez

#16. There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#17. Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Gene Kelly

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

Richard Lindzen

#19. 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.

Richard Lindzen