Richard Lindzen: Key Points Climate Alarmists Get Wrong
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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“The minute you hear 'the science is settled,' you know something is wrong. Science is never settled,” says Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at MIT.
“Climate is one of the earliest examples of cancel culture … I don't think the public is quite aware of the pressures that were brought to bear to get rid of opposition to this,” Mr. Lindzen says.
In this episode, he breaks down key mistaken assumptions he sees fueling the climate extremism we see today, and explains why many climate policies, from the push to reduce cattle to bans on synthetic fertilizers, have been counterproductive and harmful.
“And you see these policies have had no impact on CO2. So they have done nothing to prevent this alleged existential threat, except make people poorer, make society less stable, less resilient. And you can only account for that with either ignorance or sadism,” Mr. Lindzen says.
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| 0:00.0 | The minute you hear the science is settled, you know something is wrong. |
| 0:03.9 | Today is the town with Richard Linson, an atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus of meteorology at MIT. |
| 0:10.5 | I mean CO2, they forget is, you know, essential. |
| 0:15.1 | We're treating it as a poison. |
| 0:16.8 | If you could get rid of 60% of the CO2 or roughly, we'd all be dead. |
| 0:21.6 | What are the so-called climate experts getting wrong? |
| 0:24.8 | What has been the impact of our climate policies? |
| 0:27.4 | You have cattle, raisers, and Ireland all going under. |
| 0:31.7 | A starvation in Sri Lanka. |
| 0:34.0 | And you see these policies have had no impact on CO2. |
| 0:37.7 | They have done nothing to prevent this alleged existential threat, |
| 0:42.0 | except make people poorer, make society less stable, less resilient. |
| 0:46.4 | And you can only account for that with either ignorance or sadism. |
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