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Dyson is the greatest living scientist, imo. He came within a hair's breath of winning the Nobel Prize and is one of the architects of modern physics. He is also a critic of the current climate change hysteria sweeping the world.
Here is a good profile of him: The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - The New York Times
This article was written ten years ago, and I found one part of it interesting- when his wife complained to him after watching the Al Gore movie that the polar bears were dying out, and he assured her they would do just fine. Guess what? The polar bear population is stable and not going extinct- so time did prove him right.
Here he is talking about the climate modeling that so-called experts are currently using:
His words:
You cannot prove a vague theory wrong. If the guess that you make is poorly expressed and the method you have for computing the consequences is a little vague then ….. you see that the theory is good as it can’t be proved wrong. If the process of computing the consequences is indefinite, then with a little skill any experimental result can be made to look like an expected consequence.
https://manicbeancounter.com/2015/04/08/freeman-dyson-on-climate-models/
Here is a good profile of him: The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - The New York Times
This article was written ten years ago, and I found one part of it interesting- when his wife complained to him after watching the Al Gore movie that the polar bears were dying out, and he assured her they would do just fine. Guess what? The polar bear population is stable and not going extinct- so time did prove him right.
Here he is talking about the climate modeling that so-called experts are currently using:
His words:
You cannot prove a vague theory wrong. If the guess that you make is poorly expressed and the method you have for computing the consequences is a little vague then ….. you see that the theory is good as it can’t be proved wrong. If the process of computing the consequences is indefinite, then with a little skill any experimental result can be made to look like an expected consequence.
https://manicbeancounter.com/2015/04/08/freeman-dyson-on-climate-models/