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emeritus physics 2 strikes?pal of lovelock?<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 18.59px;"><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-moore" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 26.4px;">Patrick Moore</a>, Canadian climate science denier</li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Freeman Dyson</a>, retired physicist</li><li>James Lovelock, independent scientist</li></ul><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">review:

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'Climate Hustle' reeks of conspiracy theory
Tuesday May 17, 2016 
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<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson-flailing-outside-his-field-expertise-nyt-should-be-embarrassed">http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson-flailing-outside-his-field-expertise-nyt-should-be-embarrassed</a><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px; line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Freeman Dyson seems like a nice man and, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_dyson#cite_note-9" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">in 1949,</a> he was certainly one of the most impressive physicists in the world.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Dawidoff" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Nicholas Dawidoff</a> is a great sportswriter. And the New York Times (with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">obvious exceptions</a>) is held to be a reputable and credible publication.But none of that helps to explain why the NYT Magazine would ask a sportswriter to research an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?pagewanted=1&r=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">8,000-word article</a> on an issue he knows nothing about - featuring an 85-year-old “expert” who is similarly at sea on the issue.Take what position you will on the degree of urgency, climate change is unquestionably one of the most important public policy issues currently facing any government in the world. It is somewhere between casually irresponsible and criminally reckless for a respected medium like the New York Times to undermine the quality of public discussion by putting so much focus on people who are so clearly out of their depth.Dyson’s position as a climate change is pretty <a href="http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">well established</a>, and the position that he himself describes as “heretical” has <a href="http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2007/08/dyson-exegesis.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">been categorically debunked</a><a href="http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2007/08/dyson-exegesis.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"> point by point. As the University of Texas Research Scientist Michael Tobis puts it in this dismissal</a>, Dyson makes fundamental errors which show, “that the author has never even sat down with the undergraduate level approximation of how atmospheric radiative transfer actually works. It’s really quite shocking.”Dyson might be forgiven such late-in-life contrarianism. He is a hugely accomplished physicist who deserves to be treated with respect. But that doesn’t mean he deserves to be taken seriously - at this point in his unrelated career - on an issue on which he has never conducted research or published in legitimate scientific journals.Yet the NYT, which we have a right to assume has a sense of responsibility, serves up Dyson - as interpreted by the aforementioned sportswriter. Even if the NYT had offered a steady stream of interesting (and better-informed) articles on climate change in the last six or seven issues, this would be a questionable choice.In the circumstances, it’s purely irresponsible - and it plays, shamefully and stupidly, into the hands of those people who would like to keep us confused on the issue of climate change.If this clumsiness had come from a news outlet that is better know for pursuing an anti-science agenda - from Fox News, or Canada’s National Post - you might just shake your head and think: “typical.” From the New York Times, well, you would have hoped that we could expect more - so much more.</div></div></div><div class="icopyright-article-tools-horizontal icopyright-article-tools-left" style="line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="icx-toolbar" style="max-width: 264px;"><div class="icx-toolbar-inner" style="height: 26px; margin: 5px 0px; display: inline-block; padding-right: 1px; background-image: url("");" d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net="d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net" rights="rights" images="images" toolbar="toolbar" wrapper_bg_right_end_classic.gif="wrapper_bg_right_end_CLASSIC.gif" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><div class="icx-logo" style="float: left; 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Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, (1946–47). Attended Cornell University ...www.desmogblog.com | Document</div></li></ol><div>
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</div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>B.A. in Mathematics, University of Cambridge (1945).</li><li>Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, (1946–47).</li><li>Attended Cornell University in 1947 with a Commonwealth Fellowship.</li><li>Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, 1949–51</li><li>Professor of physics at Cornell University, 1951.</li></ul>Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"> Background</h2><a href="http://www.sns.ias.edu/_dyson/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Freeman Dyson</a> is a retired physics professor who is well known for his work in the area of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">electrodynamics</a>.According to one profile, “His most useful contribution to science was the unification of the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga. Cornell University made him a professor without bothering about his lack of Ph.D.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>“As a result of the burning of coal and oil, the driving of cars, and other human activities, the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing at a rate of about half a percent per year … the physical effects of carbon dioxide are seen in changes of rainfall, cloudiness, wind strength, and temperature, which are customarily lumped together in the misleading phrase 'global warming.'” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s2" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Quotes</h2><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“'The costs of what Gore tells us to do would be extremely large,' Dyson said. 'By restricting CO2 you make life more expensive and hurt the poor. I’m concerned about the Chinese'.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s3" style="text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Deeds</h2>October 11, 2015Freeman Dyson is interviewed in The Register's article, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151116164551/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/freeman_dyson_interview/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Top boffin Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more</a>,” the same day the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> published “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151021020744/http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Carbon Dioxide: The Good News</a>,” with the foreward written by Freeman Dyson. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s8" style="text-decoration: none;">[8]</a>,<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>In the foreward, Dyson argues that “carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does far more good than harm,” and “that the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a> Dyson concludes the foreward by stating, “I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>March 25, 2009Freeman Dyson is the feature of an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?pagewanted=1&r=3" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">8000 word article</a> in The New York Times titled “The Civil Heretic.” The Times quotes Dyson as saying global warming may indicate that “the climate is actually improving rather than getting worse” because increased carbon would promote forest growth and crop yields. However, the internationally-regarded IPCC <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-spm.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">concludes</a> that “climate change is expected to lead to salinisation and desertification of agricultural land.”Although Dyson is a brilliant mind, and is revered as a physicist, he does not have a background in climate science. DeSmogBlog speculated how it <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson-flailing-outside-his-field-expertise-nyt-should-be-embarrassed" style="text-decoration: none;">seems strange</a> that the Times would choose Nicholas Dawidoff, a sports writer (albeit an accomplished sports writer), to research and write an article on climate change.June 12, 2008Freeman Dyson publishes “<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/jun/12/the-question-of-global-warming/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The Question of Global Warming</a>“ through The New York Review of Books. Dyson writes, “the only plausible explanation of the annual wiggle,” of CO2's PPM measurements, “and its variation with latitude is that it is due to the seasonal growth and decay of annual vegetation, especially deciduous forests, in temperate latitudes north and south.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s7" style="text-decoration: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"> Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>The Institute for Advanced Study <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s3" style="text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141204192403/http://heartland.org/freeman-dyson" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Expert</a>” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"> Publications</h2>According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Dyson has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles mainly in the area of quantum mechanics.Dyson has <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">articulated</a> his “heretical” views on climate in an extensive article of his own <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s4" style="text-decoration: none;">[4]</a> – which has been <a href="http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2007/08/dyson-exegesis.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">debunked</a> on a point-by-point basis. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson#s5" style="text-decoration: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"> Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a name="s1" id="s1">“</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?r=2&sq=freeman%20dyson&st=nyt&scp=4&pagewanted=all" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The Civil Heretic</a>,” The New York Times, March 25, 2009.</li><li><a name="s2" id="s2">Freeman Dyson. “</a><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/may/15/what-a-world/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">What a World!</a>”, The New York Review of Books, May 15, 2003.</li><li><a name="s3" id="s3">“</a><a href="http://www.sns.ias.edu/_dyson/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">freemon dyson: professor emeritus, sns</a>,” sns.ias.edu. Accessed December 6, 2011.</li><li><a name="s4" id="s4">Freeman Dyson. “</a><a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY</a>,” Edge, April 8, 2007.</li><li><a name="s5" id="s5">Michael Tobis. “</a><a href="http://init.planet3.org/2007/08/dyson-exegesis.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Dyson Exegesis</a>,” Only In It For The Gold, August 12, 2007.</li><li><a name="s6" id="s6">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141204192403/http://heartland.org/freeman-dyson" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Freeman Dyson; Expert</a>,” Heartland Institute.</li><li><a name="s7" id="s7">Freeman Dyson. ”</a><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/jun/12/the-question-of-global-warming/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The Question of Global Warming</a>,” The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2008.</li><li><a name="s8" id="s8">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151116164551/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/freeman_dyson_interview/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px; outline: 0px;">Top boffin Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more</a>,” The Register, October 11, 2015. Archived November 16, 2015.</li><li><a name="s9" id="s9">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151021020744/http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">Carbon Dioxide: The Good News</a>,” The Global Warming Policy Foundation, October 11, 2015. Archived November 16, 2015.</li></ol></div></div></div><div id="block-views-posts-by-rogue-block" class="block block-views last even" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-top: 1.5em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.59px;"><h2 class="block__title block-title" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px;">Related Posts</h2><div class="view view-posts-by-rogue view-id-posts_by_rogue view-display-id-block view-dom-id-6c6033f278fec03942fc30683381b58e"><div class="view-content"><div class="item-list"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"><div class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson-flailing-outside-his-field-expertise-nyt-should-be-embarrassed" style="text-decoration: none;">Freeman Dyson is flailing outside his field of expertise; the NYT should be embarrassed</a></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div>----</div><ol class="search-results" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; list-style: none; line-height: 17.6px;"><li class="search-result" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><h3 class="title" style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/freeman-dyson-flailing-outside-his-field-expertise-nyt-should-be-embarrassed" style="text-decoration: none;">Freeman Dyson is flailing outside his field of expertise; the NYT ...</a></h3><div class="search-snippet-info" style="padding-left: 1em;">Mar 30, 2009 ... 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Dyson finally showed his worth to the oil boys by posing as a wise elder, warning about "alarmist" climate science for the New York Timesmagazine in '08, leading to 4 star hotel rooms and fine meals while addressing denier conferences.Not to be out-denied, Lewis emerged from 25 years of hiding among Santa Barbara Republicans to <a href="http://arthur.shumwaysmith.com/life/content/hal_lewis_incontrovertibly_emeritus" style="text-decoration: none;">mouth off</a> about "Climategate." The media didn't notice that they weren't climate scientists and hadn't published any scientific papers for decades.Corporate Teats: The attention has been good enough, along with upcoming free junkets to denier fests hosted by Far Right "think tanks" like CEI, Cato, and Heartland.Most Egregious Lie: Lewis: "Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life."Comeuppance: Sentenced to 30 days in the public stocks outside Sather Gate in Berkeley. No diapers allowed.=Updated A heavyweight American boffin has dubbed the global warming movement "the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist", and resigned in protest from the American Physical Society, saying that the society has deliberately stifled debate on the subject.The prof's resignation letter is quoted in full at the website of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the warming-sceptic think tank set up by former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and energy minister Nigel Lawson. The GWPF, apart from various British politicians, counts among its academic backers the renowned physicist Freeman Dyson.<div class="article_side_content not_moved" style="float: right; width: 300px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="article-mpu-container"><div id="ad-mu1-spot" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><div id="ad-mu1-spot_ad_container"><ins style="width: 300px; height: 250px; display: inline-table; position: relative; border: 0px;"><ins style="width: 300px; height: 250px; display: block; position: relative; border: 0px;" /></ins></div></div></div></div>In the letter, physicist Harold Lewis (emeritus prof at the University of California) writes as follows:<blockquote style="margin: 0.5em 1em; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS [the American Physical Society] before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare ... I don't believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.</blockquote>Lewis goes on to describe his and other climate-sceptic physicists' running feud with APS headquarters, in which the sceptics sought to prevent the APS from describing the case for human-driven global warming as "incontrovertible". The professor states that he and other sceptics were repeatedly stifled despite the fact that there were more than enough of them to call for a debate on the matter under the Society's rules: the sceptics weren't even allowed to email other society members.In Professor Lewis' opinion, physics in particular and science in general has been corrupted on the issue of climate change by the very large amounts of research funding and large numbers of academic jobs which are now completely dependent on global warming being a massive global menace. (As an example, British universities nowadays have on staff lecturers in "Carbon Management", <a target="blank" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/08/coffee_washing_not_for_you/" style="text-decoration: none;">advising us not to wash so much</a>: famous US institutions also have <a target="blank" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/12/google_kettle_green_it_cobblers/" style="text-decoration: none;">such people</a>.)Addressing APS President Curtis Callan of Princeton uni, Lewis writes:<blockquote style="margin: 0.5em 1em; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise ... I'm not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.</blockquote>The letter can be read in full courtesy of the GWPF <a target="_blank" href="http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html" style="text-decoration: none;">here</a>. We've asked Professor Lewis for any further comment but haven't heard back from him as yet: we'll let you know if there's anything more. ®<h3 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.5em; break-after: avoid; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Updated to Add</h3>We've now heard back from Professor Lewis, who confirms that the letter is indeed his work and he stands by it.