Dr Richard Lindzen
Dr Richard Lindzen told a Massachusetts-based radio station that people who believe in global warming are becoming more hysterical in their arguments.
'As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical,' he said. 'You've led an unpleasant life, you haven't led a very virtuous life, but now you're told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It's salvation.'
According to Howie Carr at Breitbart, the 74-year-old highlighted reports by Nasa that 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history.
He points out that the Nasa climate scientists who made the claim was only 38 per cent sure this was true.
'Seventy per cent of the Earth is oceans, we can't measure those temperatures very well,' he said. 'They can be off a half a degree, a quarter of a degree.
'Even two-10ths of a degree of change would be tiny but two-100ths is ludicrous. Anyone who starts crowing about those numbers shows that they're putting spin on nothing.'
Dr Lindzen was a lead author of Chapter 7, 'Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,' of the IPCC Third Assessment Report on climate change.
But he has previously blasted the IPCC for blaming humans for a global warming trend that appears to have cooled in recent decades - and then glossing over the warming slowdown.
'I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,' Dr Lindzen told Climate Depot - a site known for questioning the theory of global warming.
A number of studies have suggested that powerful winds in the Pacific Ocean, which have driven surface heat deep underwater, could be the reason behind the current 'pause' in global warming.
The IPCC has said that rising temperatures will exacerbate poverty and damage land and marine species.
It also claims that the world is in 'an era of man-made climate change' and has already seen impacts of global warming on every continent and across the oceans.
On Tuesday, President Obama said that 'no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change'.
He has pledged that he would veto legislation turning back White House efforts on the environment.
The same kind of afliction affects SoTT. It is such a shame that they are really hot on the geopolitical stuff and the archeology etc. but when it comes to anything like science you only get the pseudo variants and the propaganda effectively putting them in league with corruption.
I still do not understand how they can totally get it that climate change is a complete scam and yet publish a continual stream of deception on subjects like diabetes. This is a complete mystery to me. I really am trying to work this out. How can you be so completely in tune with reality in some areas and yet so completely deceived in others? What is it that prevents apparently rational people from thinking? I do not understand this. Maybe it is simply the overwhelming burden of propaganda?
As for the fireballs! That is completely sad. OK they do some pseudo-science, but really!!!!