The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage
Richard LindzenScientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.
Richard Lindzen...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.
Richard LindzenControlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
Richard Lindzen