{"id":290,"date":"2006-04-12T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=290"},"modified":"2006-04-15T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T22:43:04","slug":"open-thread-on-lindzen-op-ed-in-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/04\/open-thread-on-lindzen-op-ed-in-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread on Lindzen Op-Ed in WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"290\">\n<p>We&#8217;ve received a large number of requests to respond to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/extra\/?id=110008220\">this piece<\/a> by MIT&#8217;s Richard Lindzen that appeared as an op-ed in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. We&#8217;ve had lots to say before about the Wall Street Journal (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/the-wall-street-journal-vs-the-consensus-of-the-scientific-community\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/02\/wall-street-journal-again\/\">here<\/a>), and we&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/02\/richard-lindzens-hol-testimony\/\">plenty to say<\/a> about Lindzen as well.  Specifically, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/02\/richard-lindzens-hol-testimony\/#alarmism\">previously pointed<\/a> out that there is no evidence whatsoever that &#8216;alarmism&#8217; improves anyone&#8217;s chances of getting funded &#8211; if anything it is continued uncertainty that propels funding decisions, and secondly, the idea that there is a conspiracy against contrarian scientists is laughable. There is indeed a conspiracy against poor science, but there is no need to apologise for that! But rather than repeat ourselves once again, we thought we&#8217;d just sit back this time and allow our readers to comment&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 290 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve received a large number of requests to respond to this piece by MIT&#8217;s Richard Lindzen that appeared as an op-ed in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. We&#8217;ve had lots to say before about the Wall Street Journal (e.g. here and here), and we&#8217;ve had plenty to say about Lindzen as well. Specifically, we have previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"category-reporting-on-climate","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}