Freeman Dyson agrees with me

Ray mentioned the recent NYT article and backlash about Freeman Dyson. I wasn't even going to mention it, as the exercise of attempting to bring reason to the discussion is pointless. However, there is another reason to mention the recent reactions. The article is here.

(Oh, Ray, the film Knowing was excellent.)

Below is the introduction to the article. I just add it here as imbeciles have taken to attacking him. The article quotes a lawyer making fun of him. What the hell do lawyers know?

You see, he committed a religious taboo by dis'ng global warming. Obviously, off with his head.

“lousy science” for “distracting public attention” from “more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet.”

In his 20's, he unified quantum and electrodynamic theory. He hung out with, oh, Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Feynman (whose NY accent is hysterical to listen to), Teller, Oppenheimer and Witten. To this day, he still lives on Princeton's campus. Off with his head! In the vein of disclosure, I recently sent him an email fan letter.

The TIMES:

FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Prince­ton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country’s most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming “out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned,” as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. Chat rooms, Web threads, editors’ letter boxes and Dyson’s own e-mail queue resonate with a thermal current of invective in which Dyson has discovered himself variously described as “a pompous twit,” “a blowhard,” “a cesspool of misinformation,” “an old coot riding into the sunset” and, perhaps inevitably, “a mad scientist.”

Dyson had proposed that whatever inflammations the climate was experiencing might be a good thing because carbon dioxide helps plants of all kinds grow. Then he added the caveat that if CO2 levels soared too high, they could be soothed by the mass cultivation of specially bred “carbon-eating trees,” whereupon the University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner looked through the thick grove of honorary degrees Dyson has been awarded — there are 21 from universities like Georgetown, Princeton and Oxford — and suggested that “perhaps trees can also be designed so that they can give directions to lost hikers....”

But in the considered opinion of the neurologist Oliver Sacks, Dyson’s friend and fellow English expatriate, this is far from the case. “His mind is still so open and flexible,” Sacks says. Which makes Dyson something far more formidable than just the latest peevish right-wing climate-change denier. Dyson is a scientist whose intelligence is revered by other scientists — William Press, former deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and now a professor of computer science at the University of Texas, calls him “infinitely smart....”

So, none of this matters where the party is concerned. The life of the individual is dead, only the party matters. (Dr. Zhivago) So, we will remove Mr. Dyson from history (1984). A few clever articles and he will be doubleplus bad. HATE HATE HATE (1984)

From later in the article:

Dyson may be an Obama-loving, Bush-loathing liberal who has spent his life opposing American wars and fighting for the protection of natural resources, but he brooks no ideology and has a withering aversion to scientific consensus....

This open-minded approach is what morons call genius, only because they do not understand it. Einstein wrote he would drill on the thick part of the board while others occupt themselves with the thin part. You can't teach intellectual honesty, especially when it gets in the way of state control.

OK, a little more since he also dis's Gore, Hansen

Speaking at ...Boston University, Dyson announced that “all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated.” Since then he has only heated up his misgivings, declaring in a 2007 interview with Salon.com that “the fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn’t scare me at all” and writing in an essay for The New York Review of Books, the left-leaning publication that is to gravitas what the Beagle was to Darwin, that climate change has become an “obsession” — the primary article of faith for “a worldwide secular religion” known as environmentalism. Among those he considers true believers, Dyson has been particularly dismissive of Al Gore, whom Dyson calls climate change’s “chief propagandist,” and James Hansen, the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and an adviser to Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Dyson accuses them of relying too heavily on computer-generated climate models that foresee a Grand Guignol of imminent world devastation as icecaps melt, oceans rise and storms and plagues sweep the earth, and he blames the pair’s “lousy science” for “distracting public attention” from “more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet.”

Like I say, it is already boring talking about "global warming," but we cannot forget those who use mass propaganda for making money and securing state control of everyone for fun and profit. The green movement has long been the new face, coming from Europe, of the communist movement.

The White House Blog for March 10, 2009, states:

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley announced yesterday that Van Jones – an early green jobs visionary — will start Monday as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at CEQ: Van Jones has been a strong voice for green jobs and we look forward to having him work with departments and agencies to advance the President’s agenda of creating 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources

Who is this guy:

A few short years ago Anthony (Van) Jones (left) was a San Francisco Bay Area radical agitator–a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, waging war on the police and capitalist system.

Today Van Jones holds a key position in the US government and has the ear of President Barack Obama.

I don't know what else it takes to wake the sleeping. Its is like the film I mentioned, Knowing, to be afflicted by the Cassandra effect - knowing what is happening and not being able to do a thing about it.