Freeman Dyson Quotes About Global Warming

Quotes about: Global Warming

• Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

  Freeman Dyson

  Hysteria, Global Warming, Driven

• In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

  Freeman Dyson

  Majority, Minorities, Global Warming

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.94, New York Review of Books

• The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

  Freeman Dyson

  Ideas, Important, World

  Salon Interview, September 29, 2007.

• Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

  Freeman Dyson

  Order, Climate, Normal

• We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

  Freeman Dyson

  Long, Environmental, Global Warming

  Freeman J. Dyson (2007). “A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe”, p.29, University of Virginia Press

• It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

  Freeman Dyson

  Believe, Climate, Littles

• It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

  Freeman Dyson

  Experts, Facts, Honest

• Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

  Freeman Dyson

  Atmosphere, Climate, Global Warming

• There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

  Freeman Dyson

  Doubt, World, Global Warming

  Freeman J. Dyson (2007). “A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe”, p.27, University of Virginia Press

• The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.

  Freeman Dyson

  Ocean, Average, Fiction

• When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Gaps, Global Warming

  Freeman J. Dyson, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future (2006). “Heretical thoughts about science and society”

• We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Carbon Cycle, Tree

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.172, Pantheon

• We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

  Freeman Dyson

  Atmosphere, Global Warming, Carbon

• Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dubious, Climate, Input

• The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

  Freeman Dyson

  Als, Global Warming, Opportunist

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