Richard Lindzen

What you want are angry people writing to letters to editor and to their local representatives saying, this climate change stuff is a hoax, it's all terrible.

Richard Lindzen says so, so they are okay, all right, and at least sort of supporting the politicians that also may be getting money from up there.

Or at least convincing the people who waver about this.

Here was an example of the political split.

Editors for these journals may not know of suitable reviewers and may assign reviewers who are not peers within the same scientific field and who do not have the background knowledge needed to carry out a proper review.

One well-known example is Richard Lindzen publishing a paper with a very low climate sensitivity estimate.

ERBE data appear to demonstrate a climate sensitivity of about 0.5 degrees Celsius.

He later admitted the paper contained stupid mistakes.

They in turn contend that he routinely misrepresents the work of other researchers.

Moreover, contrarians continued having academic positions and government funding, even after inaccurately downplaying anthropogenic climate change.

This includes Richard Lindzen, John Christie, and Roger Pielke Sr.

This again contradicts Matt's narrative.

I think it will be seen as one of the great disgraces of science in the modern world, uh, in a, in a few years' time.

It will be-- people will be looking and think, "How did we go down that route? How do we, you know, how do we think people would believe this bullshit, um, uh, that, that we've constantly sort of produced?" And, uh, the one phrase I do use, I, I do like, and I, I, I, I mention a few times is the great, uh, Richard, uh, Lindzen, emeritus professor from Harvard and MIT, a great, uh, climate skeptic, and he says that the whole climate narrative is absurd.

He says, "But trillions of dollars given to grant-dependent, uh, academics, uh, uh, journalists, uh, uh, whatever," says it's not absurd.

And that's what it's about.

I just have one more question before I have to, uh, finish up here.

I'm gonna read, uh, three sentences from Grok about Lindzen's iris effect and have you comment on that.

Grok says this, "Uh, Lindzen's iris effect is a proposed negative climate feedback in the tropics.

The name comes from the eye.

As the light increases, the iris closes the pupil.