Dr. Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and emeritus professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), declared that climate alarmism “is exploiting people’s ignorance to promote fear and use it as a lever.” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, for instance, that “warp speed climate action” is urgently needed to stave off the coming climate Armageddon. According to Lindzen, such alarmism is not shared by the bulk of the scientific community.