44 Facts About Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen is the author of more than 200 scientific papers.

Richard Lindzen was born on February 8,1940, in Webster, Massachusetts.

Richard Lindzen moved to The Bronx soon after his birth and grew up in a Jewish household in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood.

Richard Lindzen attended the Bronx High School of Science, where he won Regents' and National Merit Scholarships, then Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before matriculating at Harvard University.

Richard Lindzen has published papers on Hadley circulation, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, hydrodynamic instability, mid-latitude weather, global heat transport, the water cycle, ice ages and seasonal atmospheric effects.

Richard Lindzen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Science, Health, and Economic Advisory Council at the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy.

Richard Lindzen joined MIT in 1983, prior to which he held positions at the University of Washington, the Institute for Theoretical Meteorology at the University of Copenhagen, the University of Oslo, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Chicago.

Richard Lindzen briefly held a position of visiting lecturer at UCLA in 1967.

Richard Lindzen is the author of a standard textbook on atmospheric dynamics, and co-authored the monograph Atmospheric Tides with Sydney Chapman.

Richard Lindzen was Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT from 1983, until his retirement which was reported in the Spring 2013 newsletter of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

Richard Lindzen went on to calculate the thermal response of the diurnal tide to ozone and water vapor absorption in detail and showed that when his theoretical developments were included, the surface pressure oscillation was predicted with approximately the magnitude and phase observed, as were most of the features of the diurnal wind oscillations in the mesosphere.

In 1967, along with his NCAR colleague, Douglas D McKenzie, Lindzen extended the theory to include a term for Newtonian cooling due to emission of infrared radiation by carbon dioxide in the stratosphere along with ozone photochemical processes, and then in 1968 he showed that the theory predicted that the semi-diurnal oscillation would be insensitive to variations in the temperature profile, which is why it is observed so much more strongly and regularly at the surface.

Richard Lindzen recalls his discovery of the mechanism underlying the QBO in the semi-autobiographical review article, On the development of the theory of the QBO.

In particular, there was still no observational evidence of the westward-traveling "Kelvin" waves; Richard Lindzen postulated their existence theoretically.

In 1974 a theory was proposed by Stephen B Fels and Lindzen to explain this so-called "superrotation" which held that the rotation is driven by the thermal atmospheric tide.

From 1972 to 1982 Richard Lindzen was a professor of dynamic meteorology at Harvard University.

From February to June 1975 he was a visiting professor of dynamic meteorology at MIT, and during part of 1979 Lindzen was a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, before switching affiliations to MIT as the Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology in 1983.

Richard Lindzen is named as one of 16 Scientific Members of the team authoring the National Academy of Sciences 1975 publication Understanding Climatic Change: A Program for Action.

Richard Lindzen disputed this, claiming that the negative feedback from high-level clouds was still larger than the weak positive feedback estimated by Lin et al.

Richard Lindzen has expressed his concern over the validity of computer models used to predict future climate change.

Contrary to the IPCC's assessment in 2001, Richard Lindzen said that climate models are inadequate.

The four reviewers of the paper, two of whom had been selected by Richard Lindzen, strongly criticized the paper and PNAS rejected it for publication.

In 2001, Richard Lindzen served on an 11-member panel organized by the National Academy of Sciences.

Richard Lindzen worked on Chapter 7 of 2001 IPCC Working Group 1, which considers the physical processes that are active in real world climate.

Richard Lindzen had previously been a contributor to Chapter 4 of the 1995 "IPCC Second Assessment".

Richard Lindzen described the full 2001 IPCC report as "an admirable description of research activities in climate science" although he criticized the Summary for Policymakers.

Richard Lindzen stated in May 2001 that it did not truly summarize the IPCC report but had been amended to state more definite conclusions.

Richard Lindzen emphasized the fact that the summary had not been written by scientists alone.

The NAS panel on which Richard Lindzen served says that the summary was the result of dialogue between scientists and policymakers.

Cato Institute was "founded and heavily funded for years" by the Kochs, and Richard Lindzen was prominently quoted in the brochure for the conference.

The title of the presentation Richard Lindzen made at the conference was "Critical Issues in Climate Forecasting".

In June 1992, a year after the Cato Institute conference, Richard Lindzen signed the Heidelberg Appeal.

Richard Lindzen has criticized the scientific consensus on global climate change, claiming that scientists are just as liable to err when the science appears to point in just one direction.

Richard Lindzen drew an analogy in 1996 between the consensus in the early and mid-twentieth century on eugenics and the current consensus about global warming.

Richard Lindzen agrees that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, calling people who dispute that point 'nutty.

Richard Lindzen first published this "iris" theory in 2001, and offered more support in a 2009 paper.

In 2001, Richard Lindzen urged the Bush administration not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

In 2017, Richard Lindzen sent a petition to President Trump, asking the President to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Convention on Climate Change.

William Gray of Colorado State University basically agreed with Richard Lindzen, describing him as "courageous".

Richard Lindzen said, "A lot of my older colleagues are very skeptical on the global warming thing".

Richard Lindzen added that while he regarded some of Lindzen's views as flawed, he said that, "across the board he's generally very good".

The November 10,2004, online version of Reason magazine reported that Richard Lindzen is "willing to take bets that global average temperatures in 20 years will in fact be lower than they are now".

The Guardian reported in June 2016 that Richard Lindzen has been a beneficiary of Peabody Energy, a coal company that has funded multiple groups contesting the climate consensus.

Richard Lindzen has been called a contrarian, in relation to climate change and other issues.