Manufacturing Consent in Times of Crisis – Dr. Richard Lindzen, Harvard/MIT Climate Scientist DS 183

The DemystifySci Podcast

Dr. Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides, and ozone photochemistry.

He served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Dynamic Meteorology at Harvard University and was appointed as the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the MIT.

Dr. Lindzen has disputed the scientific consensus on climate change and criticizes what he has called “climate alarmism”.

Rather than picking apart the arguments for or against said climate narratives, our conversation is largely focused on the question of what would motivate such alleged deception were it found to be the case.

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00:00:00 Go!

00:01:17 Outsider scientific research

00:04:33 Maxwell & the academic press

00:07:43 Editors serve the industry

00:12:16 Climate narration

00:20:33 Pressure against dissent

00:25:56 The Iris Effect

00:33:38 Motivating the standard narrative

00:43:30 Paleoclimate

00:48:06 Rotation of Earth v. airflow

00:57:24 Myopic considerations

01:05:57 Education as indoctrination

01:11:50 Science as guillotine

01:17:33 Defined v. undefined problem solving

01:21:48 Incentive wars

01:26:55 Institutional conditions

01:35:25 Manipulation of graphs

01:37:45 Different kinds of intelligent conversation

01:41:12 Academics as politics

01:47:02 Venus & climate science

01:55:38 University experience

02:07:30 Endless war

02:15:05 Youtube censorship, throttling, shadowbans

02:18:33 Dealing with villification

02:26:45 Secret history of GISS

02:34:32 Closing thoughts