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The Global Warming Heretic
theodp writes "In The Civil Heretic, the NYT Magazine takes a look at how world-renowned scientist Freeman Dyson wound up opposing those who care most about global warming. Since coming out of the closet on global warming, Dyson has found himself described as 'a pompous twit,' 'a blowhard,' and 'a mad scientist.' He argues that climate change has become an obsession for 'a worldwide secular religion' known as environmentalism. Dyson has been particularly dismissive of Al Gore, calling him climate change's chief propagandist and accusing him of relying too heavily on computer-generated climate models and promoting 'lousy science' that's distracting attention from more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet."
Dyson himself wrote about the need for heretics in science not long ago.
well I don't question myself, I'm pretty much perfetc.
Funny how since the beginning of history, groups of people have been claiming that the world is going to end. And it keeps not happening.
"Past Performance is Not Necessarily Indicative of Future Results"
His only complaint with the science is that he feels that some of the computer models are fudged to make the results look worse than they might actually be.
An engineer, a mathematician and a computer scientist are being interviewed to become CFO of a big company. The CEO asks, "What is two plus two?"
The engineer whips out his cell phone, uses the calculator, and shows it to the CEO. "Two plus two is four!"
The mathematician whips out his portable whiteboard, scribbles some stuff one it, and shows it to the CEO. "This proves that two plus two is four!"
The computer scientist whips out a computer model, shrugs, sighs and asks, "How much do you want it to be?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The votes are in. The cutoff point for new knowledge has passed.
We have to have a cutoff point. Otherwise we might discover we were wr... wr... misinterpreted and taken out of context.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.