Climatologists Are Not Einsteins, Says His Successor

Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of “most brilliant physicist on the planet.” Dyson has filled it. So when the global-warming movement came along, a lot of people wondered why he didn’t come along with it. The reason he’s a skeptic is simple, the 89-year-old Dyson said when I phoned him. “I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic,” Dyson said. –Paul Mulshine, The Star Ledger, 4 April 2013

So why does the public hear only one side of this debate? Because the media do an awful job of reporting it. “They’re absolutely lousy,” Freeman Dyson said of American journalists. “That’s true also in Europe. I don’t know why they’ve been brainwashed.” I know why: They’re lazy. Instead of digging into the details, most journalists are content to repeat that mantra about “consensus” among climate scientists. –Paul Mulshine, The Star Ledger, 4 April 2013

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