"'The fact that you have a multi-trillion dollar industry and you have an opportunity to completely overturn it had a great appeal to a lot of politicians,'"
"'They go wild on it. Another half degree and we're doomed, and so on. The public knows this is nonsense.'"
"'We don't understand the glaciation that occurred in the 15th century. You know, so what was going on then? Inadequate CO₂?'"
Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor Emeritus of Meteorology, expresses skepticism about prevailing climate-change claims and public alarm. Lindzen contends that proclaimed near-term catastrophes from small temperature increases lack realistic data support. He links strong political backing for drastic energy-sector changes to the economic opportunity of overturning a multi-trillion-dollar industry. Lindzen questions the effectiveness of targeting specific emissions like CO₂ to achieve the projected global temperature reductions. He emphasizes substantial historical temperature fluctuations and cites unresolved events such as the 15th-century glaciation as examples of limits in understanding past climate causes.
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