One of the premier scientist talking here. Long article but he calls Al Gore an "opportunist"and will do anything to promote "environmentalism".
His critics will say that he's over 80 and senile. Long dead before the polar bears disappear and New Yorkers have to boat to work.
Pretty sharp criticism from people who never have to worry about a job. Food. Or doing something useful for a living.
That's usually why leftists enter politics, entertainment and academia.
Beats working for a living, right?
His critics will say that he's over 80 and senile. Long dead before the polar bears disappear and New Yorkers have to boat to work.
Pretty sharp criticism from people who never have to worry about a job. Food. Or doing something useful for a living.
That's usually why leftists enter politics, entertainment and academia.
Beats working for a living, right?
Magazine Preview - The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
Dyson says it’s only principle that leads him to question global warming: “According to the global-warming people, I say what I say because I’m paid by the oil industry. Of course I’m not, but that’s part of their rhetoric. If you doubt it, you’re a bad person, a tool of the oil or coal industry.” Global warming, he added, “has become a party line.”
What may trouble Dyson most about climate change are the experts. Experts are, he thinks, too often crippled by the conventional wisdom they create, leading to the belief that “they know it all.” The men he most admires tend to be what he calls “amateurs,” inventive spirits of uncredentialed brilliance like Bernhard Schmidt, an eccentric one-armed alcoholic telescope-lens designer; Milton Humason, a janitor at Mount Wilson Observatory in California whose native scientific aptitude was such that he was promoted to staff astronomer; and especially Darwin, who, Dyson says, “was really an amateur and beat the professionals at their own game.” It’s a point of pride with Dyson that in 1951 he became a member of the physics faculty at Cornell and then, two years later, moved on to the Institute for Advanced Study, where he became an influential man, a pragmatist providing solutions to the military and Congress, and also the 2000 winner of the $1 million Templeton Prize for broadening the understanding of science and religion, an award previously given to Mother Teresa and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — all without ever earning a Ph.D. Dyson may, in fact, be the ultimate outsider-insider, “the world’s most civil heretic,” as the classical composer Paul Moravec, the artistic consultant at the institute, says of him.
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