Posted on 11/17/2025 6:08:56 AM PST by DallasBiff
Skepticism about climate change has resurfaced, as some experts claim the exact causes of global warming remain unclear and that the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science.
Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has spent decades studying atmospheric science. He told the Daily Mail that the public hysteria surrounding global warming isn't actually based on realistic data.
Climate change is the term used to describe Earth's warming, mainly as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas.
Scientists and climate activists have warned that this extra warmth could cause more extreme storms, rising seas that flood cities, and hotter summers that make it harder to grow food worldwide - all within the next 25 years.
However, Lindzen said the financial implications of controlling the multi-trillion-dollar energy industry have been the true motivation for politicians to support flawed research that argues small temperature increases will lead to immediate disasters.
'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,' he explained. 'They go wild on it. Another half degree and we're doomed, and so on. The public knows this is nonsense.
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Years back he was on the Larry King show debating Richard Nye the science guy. Lindzen said something along the lines of Global Warming extremists are like little kids hiding in a dark closet to scare themselves.
I would say money and more government control over people’s lives.
If Gavin Newsom (God Forbid) is elected POTUS in 2028, “climate issues” will go into hyperdrive with reducing “carbon emissions” his main goal.
Expect energy prices to at least double - in California we already pay $5.00/gallon for gas and our utility rates are double the national average.
"Emeritus". Well, I guess they can't fire him for speaking the truth, otherwise they probably would.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4352813/posts
Thanks, Tell It Right!
Climate Change Denier!
Thank you for the link. Watched the entire video. Judith isn’t a suck up.
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