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Freeman Dyson
by modzu 7y ago
Freeman Dyson
- scotty79 7y agoHe's a physicists. Why would he have any idea about climate? He's just a person with an opinion not a dissenting scientist. And if his work suffered as a result of voicing such opinion then it was only to be expected. If you voice stupid opinion regarding domain you know almost nothing about and prop it up with your work reputation it's only fair if that reputation takes a hit.
- Youcandothis 7y agoThe climate is a physical phenomenon.
- kaybe 7y agoAnd many climate scientists are in fact physicists.
- scotty79 7y agoEverything in existence is a physical phenomenon. That doesn't mean physicists have authority on everything. You might as well consider every philosopher an authority on everything because every problem ever solved was solved by thinking and that's what philosophers do. While in reality philosophers are only authorities on (the history of?) philosophy.
- modzu 7y agothat's too harsh. philsophers are experts at a particular way of thinking: logic. it is surprisingly powerful for clarifying ideas and advancing knowledge, in much the same way as mathematics or the scientific method are. we would not say mathematicians are only experts on "numbers"
- scotty79 7y agoLogic is actually part of math. There are even few different logics math worked out. Some philosophers follow logic but apply it to unanswerable questions. Some can't even do the logic part rigorously enough. Personally I have no respect for this field of culture and humans that pursue it. All of them are not even wrong.
- maxlybbert 7y agoThe “97% consensus” number is based on surveys of scientists in general, not just climate scientists. Including scientists when they agree with a position, but not when they disagree (because they aren’t real climate experts) is a very strange debate tactic.
- esailija 7y agoWell, everything you said is false: "Among the most-cited is a 2013 study of nearly 12,000 abstracts of peer-reviewed papers on climate science published since 1990, of which just over 4,000 papers expressed an opinion on the cause of recent global warming. Of these, 97% agree, explicitly or implicitly, that global warming is happening and is human-caused."
- maxlybbert 7y agoIt looks like you’re right.