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Top Physicist Freeman Dyson: Obama ‘Took the Wrong Side’ on Climate Change
CNS ^ | October 14, 2015 | Mairead McArdle

Posted on 10/14/2015 4:32:39 PM PDT by xzins

Freeman Dyson, one of the world’s top theoretical physicists and a self-described “100% Democrat,” criticized President Barack Obama for his views on climate change, stating that he was on the “wrong side” of the issue and that Republicans were on the “right side” of the topic.

“I'm 100 per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side,” Dyson told The Register last week.

Dyson’s name looms large in the scientific and political worlds. A contemporary of Albert Einstein, Dyson taught physics at Princeton University, worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force in World War II, and has advised the government on many scientific and technical matters.

Dyson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London. Among the honors he has received over the years are the Enrico Fermi Award, the Templeton Prize, and the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize.

Climate change "is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery,” Dyson said in his interview with The Register. “How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?"

The physics professor studied climate trends at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1980s before the topic appeared prominently on the political scene.

About models that predicted drastic climate change Dyson said, “What has happened in the past 10 years is that the discrepancies between what's observed and what's predicted have become much stronger.”

Dyson offered several of his own solutions for carbon dioxide policy.

“The rise of the oceans is a real problem and while they're not rising as fast as people say, they're still rising,” Dyson said. “That could be stopped if you could arrange that it snows a bit more in Antarctica. That's something that could be quite feasible, but it's not been looked at very much.”

Dyson also mentioned land management, “particularly building up topsoil.”

The physicist suggested that resolutions by the West to limit coal burning will not meet expectations.

“Whatever the rest of the world agrees to, China and India will continue to burn coal, so the discussion is quite pointless,” Dyson said.

He added, “Pollution is quite separate to the climate problem: one can be solved, and the other cannot, and the public doesn't understand that.”

Dyson said the lucrative nature of pushing a climate change agenda based on models predicting drastic consequences is only part of the problem.

“It is true that there's a large community of people who make their money by scaring the public, so money is certainly involved to some extent, but I don't think that's the full explanation,” he said.

Dyson compared the “mood of the times,” today to that of the pre-World War I period.

“It's like a hundred years ago, before World War I, there was this insane craving for doom, which in a way, helped cause World War I,” said Dyson. “People like the poet Rupert Brooke were glorifying war as an escape from the dullness of modern life. [There was] the feeling we'd gone soft and degenerate, and war would be good for us all.”

“That was in the air leading up to World War I, and in some ways it's in the air today,” Dyson said.

As a young man, Dyson earned a mathematics degree from Trinity College, Cambridge. He did his graduate studies at Cornell University in New York, under the direction of the world-renowned physicists Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman. J. Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, awarded Dyson a lifetime appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1953.

Dyson, born in Britain, became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1957.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; freemandyson; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; michaelericdyson; obama; tyrant; warmist
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To: xzins
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81 posted on 10/14/2015 6:06:33 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: ctdonath2
When Freeman Dyson speaks, listen.

That's my take on it, too. It seems that a lot of physicists "get it".

I think this is the money quote:

“It is true that there's a large community of people who make their money by scaring the public, so money is certainly involved to some extent, but I don't think that's the full explanation,” he said.

Dyson is not coming right out to say it, but I think he is pointing out there's (grant) money for research that "validates" climate change.

Yes, there are other people (like the media) that make money from doom-and-gloom. And there are certainly "clean energy" boondoggles that would have otherwise never been even considered.

82 posted on 10/14/2015 6:13:11 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderators)
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To: xzins
Global Warming Skeptics Question Authority

Princeton Professor Denies Global Warming Theory

31,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Theory to be Named Monday

German scientists reject man-made global warming

Real Scientist Uncover Serious Flaw In Global Warming Data

Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]

‘Consensus’ On Man-Made Global Warming Collapses in 2008

Global Warming Petition Project
31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs

83 posted on 10/14/2015 6:21:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: xzins

If Richard Feynman was still with us, I’m sure he would weigh in on AGW. In his absence we are lucky to be able to hear from Feynman’s old friend and colleague.


84 posted on 10/14/2015 6:23:27 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Steely Tom

Personally, I think it all comes down to the money, in this case grants from the Feds and various foundations.


85 posted on 10/14/2015 6:23:42 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: cynwoody

Good stuff, thanks.


86 posted on 10/14/2015 6:35:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: xzins

Who to believe.....Freeman Dyson or Obola and Algore......


87 posted on 10/14/2015 6:39:24 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Steely Tom; publius911

I may be giving away an important plot element, but Project Orion appears as an important plot element in Niven and Pournelle’s Footfall.

http://www.amazon.com/Footfall-Larry-Niven/dp/0345323440

Good stuff, as are most if not all of their collaborations.


88 posted on 10/14/2015 6:40:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And they aren’t scientific experts, by definition, since they aren’t practicing science. They are experts though, at lying.


89 posted on 10/14/2015 6:58:41 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: xzins
“How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?"


90 posted on 10/14/2015 7:05:57 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: xzins
Dyson’s name looms large in the scientific and political worlds. A contemporary of Albert Einstein, Dyson taught physics at Princeton University, worked as a civilian scientist for the Royal Air Force in World War II, and has advised the government on many scientific and technical matters.

OK - but Al Gore once passed a science class with a 'C'... so just who does Dyson think he is taking on people like Gore... and Obama ... (who can't do simple math...)

91 posted on 10/14/2015 7:34:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: FreedomPoster
Project Orion appears as an important plot element in Niven and Pournelle’s Footfall.

I first heard of Dyson spheres in a Larry Niven's "Ringworld."

That's a sun in the middle of a gigantic (artificial) Dyson sphere.

92 posted on 10/14/2015 8:22:24 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping


93 posted on 10/14/2015 8:33:56 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Zathras
There is a small group of rich lefties who are trying to use Global Warming to launch more funding into Fusion/Fission reactors.
I suspect Dyson is probably one of them.
Bill Gates is another.

Mr. Bill used to date the professor's daughter, Esther Dyson, who is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.


Bill Gates and Esther Dyson (1984)

94 posted on 10/14/2015 10:30:25 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

That’s interesting.

Gates looked so much younger than his age (29). These days he looks 70 (actual age 59).


95 posted on 10/14/2015 11:20:18 PM PDT by Selene
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To: rightwingcrazy
If he challenges the Dogma, then he is an apostate. Zero percent Democrat.

Yep. One awsh*t wipes out all your attaboys.

96 posted on 10/14/2015 11:24:21 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: xzins
You have additional info on him, then I’m interested.

I think everyone is telling you that if you haven't heard of Freeman Dyson then you haven't been paying attention. Just use Google to check him out because trying to clue you in in a reply to a post is futile...the guy has accomplished so much that there is no way to even discuss the issue until you are up to speed.

97 posted on 11/30/2016 8:35:36 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: FreedomPoster

Dyson’s daughter is behind the ICANN mess.


98 posted on 12/17/2016 5:08:10 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Lisbon1940

So Esther was involved in that? I remember her being a bit of a writer in the earlier days of the Internet really getting going, maybe 20 years ago.


99 posted on 12/18/2016 4:34:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: kalee

Bookmark


100 posted on 12/18/2016 4:39:12 AM PST by kalee
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