Exactly. He only started speaking out publicly after he retired. No fool, he.
Yep, academic “apostates” are treated little better than Muslim apostates.
Not really. Lindzen spoke out even inside of academic papers, calling out the bad science on the other side. He also wrote many op eds making public critiques of the alarmist warming cult. Of course Lindzen is arguing that the feedback to CO2 warming is probably negative rather than positive, so he has a solid scientific debate going, not just rhetoric.