“Believing CO2 controls the climate is pretty close to believing in magic”

Richard Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist who has contributed to the development of theories for the Hadley Circulation, hydrodynamic instability theory, internal gravity waves, atmospheric tides and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the stratosphere. His current research is focused on climate sensitivity, the role of cirrus clouds in climate, and...

"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust."

Lawrence Krauss is Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University and Foundation Professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration in the Physics Department. He is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, at the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, (including the...

"Scientists can depict the problems that will affect the environment base on available evidence, but their solution is not the responsability of scientists but of society as a whole."

He holds a Chemical Engineer degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a postgraduate degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a pioneer and one of the main scientists in the world dedicated to...

"The contemporary 'climate crusade' has much in common with the medieval crusades"

He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University and a specialist in the spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, radiation propagation in the atmosphere and spin-polarized atoms and nuclei. He invented the sodium guide star that is used in astronomical adaptive optics to correct for the...

"For the last three years, I’ve served on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. It has been a very interesting experience sitting with other scientists and trying to act as an independent body advising the President and his top advisers (…) to help them make the best decisions"

He is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He also co-directs the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the...

“I love Europe! That’s why I live in France. But the EU has no purpose’

Lord Lawson of Blaby became a Conservative MP in 1974, after spending a number of years in journalism; including as editor of The Spectator from 1966 to 1970. He served in Thatcher’s government from 1979 to 1989 as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Energy and...