Richard Lindzen

Is it cooling?

Is extreme weather increasing?

It's amazing to me that politicians can put forward a concept that is purely imaginary and have the science community discuss it seriously.

You may be right.

I mean, something was needed to make it catch on.

It had been around for quite a few years without catching on quite that way.

But it was also the confluence, you know, the UN really got interested in it.

You had the World Meteorological Organization.

All of them saw something they could gain in it.

And so it began to seem almost overwhelming.

But it did, you know, it reached the right people.

I mean, the funding agencies, the NSF got taken over almost immediately.

NASA took about 10 years, Department of Energy took 10 years, but they worked on it.

I mean, the notion that there's a crisis has taken hold, even though nobody sees evidence of a crisis.

And what's supporting it now is the extreme weather, which is a fake.

But it provides visuals.

Yeah.

Oh.

I mean, growing up in the Bronx in the 40s,

Every autumn, there were hurricanes.