MIT's Richard Lindzen claims global warming fear is fueled by profit, not proof

Climate change skepticism has been gaining ground as MIT top scientist Richard Lindzen has slammed “climate hysteria”, calling it driven by money not by scientific evidence.

Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT while interviewing with Daily Mail said that public outcry surrounding global warming is not based on factual data.

As the world is reeling with tangible realities of climate change in the form of extreme climate events, the scientific community has issued a warning to cap global warming to save the planet.

As per climate scientists’ findings, within the next 25 years, climate change characterized by the scorching heatwaves, rising sea levels, and prolonged drought will exacerbate food insecurity.

According to Lindzen, politicians have been fuelling global warming fears on the basis of financial motivations stemming from the multi-trillion-dollar energy industry.

“The fact that you have a multi-trillion dollar industry and you have an opportunity to completely overturn it had a great appeal to a lot of politicians,” Lindzen explained.

“They go wild on it. Another half degree and we're doomed, and so on. The public knows this is nonsense,” he added.

He said that only by putting emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emission will not bring changes in temperatures globally as claimed by the climate activists.

“We don't understand the glaciation that occurred in the 15th century. You know, so what was going on then? Inadequate CO₂?” Lindzen shed light on an event in the Northern Hemisphere known as the Little Ice Age.

The International Energy Agency reported that the global energy industry is worth between $6-$7 trillion, with 80 percent of energy used in the world coming from fossil fuels.