Richard Lindzen

Richard Siegmund Lindzen born February 8 1940 is an American atmospheric physicist known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers From 1972 to 1982 he served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Dynamic Meteorology at Harvard University In 1983 he was appointed as the Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he would remain until his retirement in 2013 Lindzen has disputed the scientific consensus on climate change and criticizes what he has called climate alarmism