Freeman Dyson Quotes About Global Warming
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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.
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Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
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There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
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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.
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The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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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.
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Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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