Quote of the day ... anthropogenic global warming skeptic edition:
What I would like to emphasize is that human actions have very large
effects on the ecology, which have nothing to do with the climate.
Carbon dioxide is what we're producing in big quantities and putting
into the atmosphere. This happens to be a very good fertilizer for all
kinds of vegetation, good for wildlife, good for agricultural
production, so it has many benefits. And this is something you have
together with the climate effects, which are much less certain, so it's a
question of drawing a balance. I'm just saying I don't understand it
and neither does anybody else. I'm skeptical because I don't think the
science is at all clear, and unfortunately a lot of the experts really
believe they understand it, and maybe have the wrong answer.
Of
course [the weather] concerns me, but of course, we don't know much
about the causes of those things. We don't even know for sure whether it
is more variable than it used to be. I mean the worst disasters were
the Ice Ages, and nobody really understands for sure the causes of Ice
Ages, so I'm not saying the climate disasters aren't real, I'm merely
saying we don't know how to prevent them.
That's
Freeman Dyson, in a quote from
an interview about
his new book...
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