Global warming, part 3
There continues to be a widespread impression, perpetuated by miscreants like Al Gore, that “all the scientists” believe we’re suffering from global warming caused by human-generated greenhouse gases.
Apparently famous physicist Freeman Dyson is not one of the “all”. Read this article by Lawrence Solomon of the Urban Renaissance Institute. (For some of the source material, you can read the text of Dyson’s 2005 commencement address at the University of Michigan.)
And Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, gave a lecture at Caltech in 2003 in which he reminded the audience how “nuclear winter” was once going to destroy us all (are you old enough to remember that?). Until, among other things, Carl Sagan’s 1991 prediction of a nuclear winter effect resulting from Kuwaiti oil fires (caused by the Gulf War) failed to materialize. (Sagan may have passed away, but I’m still mad at him for putting onto the Voyager space probe a handy map showing any extraterrestrial beings who run across it exactly how to find us. Sagan was one of those people who believed that any extraterrestrials will “of course” be nice to us, e.g. not regard us as food even though we ourselves regard lots of animals as food. He was also once famous for his fondness for the phrase “billions and billions”, but somehow he didn’t care about the opinions of the other billions and billions of people whose location he was exposing.) I highly recommend reading the text of Crichton's lecture as it addresses the general question of non-science masquerading as science.
Thank heavens that a few scientists still believe in science.
Apparently famous physicist Freeman Dyson is not one of the “all”. Read this article by Lawrence Solomon of the Urban Renaissance Institute. (For some of the source material, you can read the text of Dyson’s 2005 commencement address at the University of Michigan.)
And Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, gave a lecture at Caltech in 2003 in which he reminded the audience how “nuclear winter” was once going to destroy us all (are you old enough to remember that?). Until, among other things, Carl Sagan’s 1991 prediction of a nuclear winter effect resulting from Kuwaiti oil fires (caused by the Gulf War) failed to materialize. (Sagan may have passed away, but I’m still mad at him for putting onto the Voyager space probe a handy map showing any extraterrestrial beings who run across it exactly how to find us. Sagan was one of those people who believed that any extraterrestrials will “of course” be nice to us, e.g. not regard us as food even though we ourselves regard lots of animals as food. He was also once famous for his fondness for the phrase “billions and billions”, but somehow he didn’t care about the opinions of the other billions and billions of people whose location he was exposing.) I highly recommend reading the text of Crichton's lecture as it addresses the general question of non-science masquerading as science.
Thank heavens that a few scientists still believe in science.
