Editing Richard Lindzen (section)

==Career==
Lindzen has published papers on [[Hadley circulation]], [[monsoon]] meteorology, [[Atmosphere|planetary atmospheres]], [[hydrodynamic]] instability, [[:Category:Midlatitude weather|mid-latitude weather]], global [[Heat transfer|heat transport]], the [[water cycle]], [[ice age]]s and seasonal atmospheric effects. His main contribution to the academic literature on anthropogenic climate change is his proposal of the [[iris hypothesis]] in 2001, with co-authors Ming-Dah Chou and Arthur Y. Hou.<ref>{{cite web | title=Publications | url=http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/PublicationsRSL.html | access-date= 2007-04-05}}</ref>{{Sfn | Lindzen | Chou | Hou | 2001}}

Lindzen is a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] and the Science, Health, and Economic Advisory Council at the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy. He joined [[MIT]] in 1983, prior to which he held positions at the [[University of Washington]] (1964–65), the Institute for Theoretical Meteorology at the [[University of Copenhagen]], the [[University of Oslo]] (1965–67), the [[National Center for Atmospheric Research]] (NCAR) (1966–67), and the [[University of Chicago]] (1968–72). From 1972 to 1982, he served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Dynamic Meteorology at [[Harvard University]]. Lindzen also briefly held a position of visiting lecturer at [[UCLA]] in 1967.<ref name=MITcv>{{cite web | type = curriculum vitae | title = Richard Siegmund Lindzen | url = http://eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/CV.pdf | date = June 1, 2008 | work = Faculty | access-date = 2009-03-18 | publisher = MIT | archive-date = March 20, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090320124502/http://eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/CV.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>

As of January 2010, his publications list included 230 papers and articles published between 1965 and 2008, with five in process for 2009. He is the author of a standard textbook on atmospheric dynamics, and co-authored the monograph ''Atmospheric Tides'' with [[Sydney Chapman (mathematician)|Sydney Chapman]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/PublicationsRSL.html |title=Richard Lindzen's Publications |access-date = January 17, 2010}}</ref>

He was [[Alfred P. Sloan]] Professor of [[Meteorology]] at MIT from 1983,<ref name="CV" /> until his retirement which was reported in the Spring 2013 newsletter of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).<ref name="eapsweb.mit Spring 2013" /> On December 27, 2013, the [[Cato Institute]] announced his appointment as a Distinguished Senior Fellow in its Center for the Study of Science.<ref name="CATO Dec13">{{Cite web | title = Richard Lindzen | url = http://www.cato.org/people/richard-lindzen | publisher = [[Cato Institute]] | date = December 27, 2013 | access-date = January 19, 2014 }}</ref>