New Freeman Dyson Book: Dreams of Earth and Sky Eric Worrall / 5 hours ago May 15, 2015 Freeman Dyson has upset the green movement again, by reminding them that one of the world’s most renowned physicists is a climate skeptic.
According to Dyson;
What I would like to emphasize is that human actions have very large effects on the ecology, which have nothing to do with the climate. Carbon dioxide is what we’re producing in big quantities and putting into the atmosphere. This happens to be a very good fertilizer for all kinds of vegetation, good for wildlife, good for agricultural production, so it has many benefits. And this is something you have together with the climate effects, which are much less certain, so it’s a question of drawing a balance. I’m just saying I don’t understand it and neither does anybody else. I’m skeptical because I don’t think the science is at all clear, and unfortunately a lot of the experts really believe they understand it, and maybe have the wrong answer.
Of course [the weather] concerns me, but of course, we don’t know much about the causes of those things. We don’t even know for sure whether it is more variable than it used to be. I mean the worst disasters were the Ice Ages, and nobody really understands for sure the causes of Ice Ages, so I’m not saying the climate disasters aren’t real, I’m merely saying we don’t know how to prevent them.
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By accident, I heard this interview. The questioner led off with a question that said "we've seen the pictures of drowning polar bears" and a few other stupid things. Dyson's reply is above. The interviewer closed with a chuckle that gee, we're sure going to be getting a lot of emails now.
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