Is Carbon Dioxide Making The World Greener? (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies)

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июн 2015
  • Computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it.
    That is according to physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
    Dyson says, “As measured from space, the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide, so it’s increasing agricultural yields, it’s increasing the forests and it’s increasing growth in the biological world, and that’s more important and more certain than the effects on climate.”
    He acknowledges that human activity has an effect on climate but claims it is much less than is claimed. He stresses the non-climate benefits of carbon are overwhelmingly favourable.
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  • @johnnygeneric161
    @johnnygeneric161 4 года назад +965

    I'm a chemical engineer with 40 years experience. I've been saying that more CO2 is GOOD!! I'm glad to see others get on my bandwagon.

    • @raisethecolours
      @raisethecolours 4 года назад +32

      It's common knowledge most people learn in middle school and elementary.... people just care about the new hottness

    • @roblovegreen
      @roblovegreen 4 года назад +58

      The earth is self balancing.

    • @nabuk3
      @nabuk3 4 года назад +49

      @keenan kovacs : You were doing OK until the very end. Actually, the overall effect of more CO2 and in general more rainfall has been an increase in overall vegetation. Satellite studies show that there is more total vegetation on Earth now than decades ago, despite all the clear-cutting and human-set fires, and despite the baseless predictions of decreasing vegetation and growing deserts.

    • @douglaslyell1
      @douglaslyell1 4 года назад +3

      keenan kovacs yes probably true and this is where chem trails creating chem fog can manipulate rainfall with the use of Doppler radars and maybe 5g .. also increase in electrical storms due to the aluminium nanoparticles and conductivity .. Australia is the current major target for weather control .. look look look into that rabbit hole and you may begin to see the BIG picture . Or maybe just follow sport or look at comic books as this may be more entertaining .. moral of the story is is that the majority are all as dumb as F@&K .

    • @Master...deBater
      @Master...deBater 4 года назад +17

      @keenan kovacs: BS...show me the empirical data!!! And debunked climate models are not empirical data!!!

  • @snakedike
    @snakedike 4 года назад +236

    There is nothing more refreshing than to hear one of the smartest people alive speak on a politically hot topic he has studied for almost 40years and say "We just don't know". Guess some politicians think they are a whole lot smarter.

    • @stayinformed2913
      @stayinformed2913 Год назад

      Most politicians, especially liberal Politicians aren't the smartest or most honest bulbs in the box. They will say anything they think people will believe.

    • @robertbarnum7541
      @robertbarnum7541 Год назад +19

      Or the politicians lie at the drop of a hat.

    • @aaronfreeman5264
      @aaronfreeman5264 Год назад

      Anasognosia, Politicians are too stupid to know that they are stupid.
      If Carbon Dioxide is reduced, Agriculture takes a bit.

    • @RandyB199
      @RandyB199 Год назад +11

      It's abut their pocketbook. Not smarter, just sneaky.

    • @melvinrexwinkle1510
      @melvinrexwinkle1510 Год назад

      the leftists politicians are better con artists

  • @dpeters9897
    @dpeters9897 4 года назад +86

    “I grew up in the 1930s and everything then was so much worse!” Turns out we are all so spoiled we seek-out things to be outraged about. 🤷‍♂️

    • @johngolden1352
      @johngolden1352 Год назад +3

      my god is this a true statement!

    • @jennifergregory7461
      @jennifergregory7461 Год назад +2

      People are weak. God bless.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 Год назад

      It’s often said that people look back thru rose-tinted specs and see their youth as a golden age. I grew up in the 1970s, and jeepers was it grey and dull: I was almost permanently bored.

    • @glenw-xm5zf
      @glenw-xm5zf Год назад

      I grew up in the 50's. You must be close to 100

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 11 месяцев назад

      I was discussing something similar with a millenial yesterday and he send loads of grapths, pretty much every one of the pointing up, then concluded we have it much worse now then people did in the 50s. Why? Because the graph did not point up as fast as it use to do.
      Well, yes, that is true. And some grapth did even point downwards. Like the graph of how cheap a average home was.
      Then when i told him that a average home was 4 times larger now than in 1950.. i totally lossed him
      On top of that. the 30 and 40 was pretty horrible years. The 50 with relative peace if cause was a huge step up.
      With that of cause, there are still plenty of corruption in society that does make people poorer today

  • @sirrathersplendid4825
    @sirrathersplendid4825 Год назад +265

    Disgraceful how the media completely ignored FJD’s death. A towering giant among physicists with his hand in so many pies, and they basically ‘cancelled’ him because he wasn’t fully onboard the climate doomboat.

    • @dougmoran13
      @dougmoran13 Год назад +1

      I think you’re right. And how sad is that? We’re doomed I’m afraid, unless the majority wakes up, gathers their guts & acts. Pronto!

    • @truck6859
      @truck6859 Год назад +7

      We don't want to be on that doomboat either.

    • @showme360
      @showme360 Год назад +1

      Your on the doom boat whether you like it or not, unless you can afford to go to the other doom boat call Mars!

    • @curtisloftis6003
      @curtisloftis6003 Год назад +15

      Agreed...Sir. The peasants rattle around the ankles of Dyson, they insult and belittle him, yet he was always respectful and something even more rare....reasonable. RIP, FJD, RIP...

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 Год назад +8

      @@showme360 - The IPCC itself states the effects of CO2-caused climate change will likely be trivial until the end of the century, and far from significant even after that.

  • @barbaramaj1919
    @barbaramaj1919 4 года назад +21

    The ONLY point you need to understand (of all this interview), happens at 15:15 - "...The benefits of CO2 are so numerous, it would be CRAZY to try to reduce it"

  • @sandfly
    @sandfly 4 года назад +138

    What a lovely, modest fellow he is and what a sensitive interviewer. The worst might be full of 'passionate intensity' but the best like Freeman Dyson are smart enough to understand and accept that nothing in science or life is ever proven beyond doubt.

    • @deanmindock3680
      @deanmindock3680 Год назад +14

      Yep, real science is never "settled".

    • @freebird1477
      @freebird1477 Год назад +4

      Exactly. That's why that sentence that climate activists " the science says"as thou it were written in stone,

  • @ElCampiador
    @ElCampiador Год назад +27

    This is exactly how interviews should be conducted, first class questions and first class answers from people at the top of their respective professions.

    • @DreamFreeFPV
      @DreamFreeFPV 7 месяцев назад

      what pandering to a preselected conclusion?

  • @lorendjones
    @lorendjones Год назад +213

    Brilliant man. Sad that we're being led by non-critical thinkers who will fall for anything. Thanks for documenting his words for posterity. In 100 years people will look back on these archives and wish we'd listened to him.

    • @mikehardwicke23
      @mikehardwicke23 Год назад +6

      Couldn't put it better myself however hard I tried 👍

    • @JackFou
      @JackFou Год назад

      It's kind of funny how climate change denialists are so desperate for intellectual validation that they elevate the handful of experts on their side to the status of "super experts" who's opinion trumps the literally *thousands* of experts on the other side of the argument.
      Dyson was certainly a brilliant man but that doesn't make him right on everything.
      Who's right in science is determined by careful examination of evidence and testing of hypotheses - not by the personal opinions of scientists, no matter how esteemed they are.

    • @lorendjones
      @lorendjones Год назад +4

      @@JackFou you mean "literally thousands making money off alarmism" vs. a few thousand who disagree with the "consensus". As Einstein once said, "It only takes one" to refute a theory. Historical data demonstrates we've been warmer before...much warmer. Remember, the largest explosion of life happened when CO2 levels were around 7,000 ppm. All life ceases at 150 ppm. We're currently at 420 ppm. Which of those extremes are we closer to??

    • @JackFou
      @JackFou Год назад

      @@lorendjones There aren't thousands of climate scientists who reject the consensus. Just a few vocal ones. And do you really think the contrarians aren't being paid for their opposition? Are you really so naive?
      Sure, it's been warmer in the past. No one is denying that.
      But back in those days, millions of years ago, the planet was completely unrecognizable, sea levels were hundreds of feet higher and the planet was absolutely not suitable for the survival of 8 billion humans living in industrialized societies.
      Fact is, modern humans evolved in and adopted to a fairly narrow range of atmospheric CO2 and temperature and our current CO2 emissions are taking us waaaaay outside of that range in just a few decades. This is not good.
      Also the whole "all life ceases at 150 ppm" argument is a red herring. CO2 was fairly stable around 250-300 ppm for the past 10,000 years or so and it's only gone up since. We're not in any danger of eliminating all CO2 from the atmosphere.

    • @mikehardwicke23
      @mikehardwicke23 Год назад

      @@JackFou I'd suggest you respect real scientists you shill! Wake-up!!

  • @brianwatts9947
    @brianwatts9947 4 года назад +185

    This should be shown in every school in every Country throughout the World. I am so glad I watched it, simply because my personal thoughts on "Climate Change" gathered over a lifetime of 70 years of experience are directly in line with what this learned Gentlemen has said. I cannot believe that my conclusions matched exactly what his were and I have no Scientific Knowledge other than that learnt in school. But, toward the end, he used a term that no longer has meaning in this world, "Use Common Sense". Interestingly enough, he also pointed out that that children in India and China, and personally I think a few other Asian Countries are much more optimistic about the future. Whereas ours, (mine's in Australia) and from what I read those in America, England, Europe are growing up fearing the world is doomed. And that, should be a crime.

    • @falseprogress
      @falseprogress 4 года назад +1

      Legit science teachers know that photosynthesis and heat-trapping triatomic molecular vibrations are unrelated functions of the CO2 molecule. They're not going to teach CO2-uptake as debunking the warming effect of CO2. That would only matter if huge amounts of forest cover were restored, but Man clears too much land for crops. The "plant a trillion trees" concept is impractical for the very reasons trees were originally cleared. falseprogress.home.blog/2018/06/24/why-saving-the-planet-is-a-lost-cause/

    • @davidjames2174
      @davidjames2174 4 года назад +4

      One thing a genuine scientist will NEVER say in connection with ANY scientific issue is "Use common sense." If all human beings had stuck to "common sense" science would never have come into existence.

    • @falseprogress
      @falseprogress 4 года назад +7

      @@davidjames2174 "Common" sense is why so many rubes think they understand climate better than "elitist" scientists. The extended right-wing attack on "elitists" (anyone with intelligence/education beyond Joe Mechanic) has crippled the true quest for knowledge, at least in populist circles.

    • @steveodavis9486
      @steveodavis9486 Год назад

      Climate modeling with computers doesn't take into account all the variables. It cannot be used with any accuracy for forecasting. CO2 has historically varied in the world over time. Computer modeling Isn't capable of accounting for changes and political attempts to use it for political ends is dangerous.

    • @trekpac2
      @trekpac2 Год назад +4

      I don’t think this fellow really knows what “Asians” are thinking about the environment. People in China and Japan are also pretty fearful of the effects humans are having on the environment. China is leading the way on doing something about it.
      I see that the world population has gone from 2 billion to 8 billion since 1952, oceans are getting over-fished and polluted, many species are disappearing. Should common sense tell me that I should be calm and not worry? My “common sense” tells me that Dr. Dyson is pretty clever but he's just guessing.
      It seems to me that probably the earth is degrading more rapidly than it can replenish itself and that it is be better to be more concerned than complacent. Man is screwing up! But that is just my common sense. Maybe we should just forget it.

  • @davidollikkala1572
    @davidollikkala1572 4 года назад +233

    I picked up on the fact that Freeman isn't in fear of loosing his job. THAT is why I believe him. There's no fear "motive".

    • @ericremington4145
      @ericremington4145 4 года назад +10

      Climate opportunists greed for money

    • @GregoryJByrne
      @GregoryJByrne 4 года назад +12

      ClimateChange is a trojan horse
      Earths Glacial/tropical ClimateCycle is due to it's 26000 year Eliptical orbit around the SUN
      Earth is a closed co2 loop
      Rise in temp is CAUSING thawing rise of co2 EFFECT

    • @chrisbutler7585
      @chrisbutler7585 2 года назад +1

      Exactly. That's why you can't believe the "consensus" opinion. Average or subpar academics go all in for the climate change fraud in hope of getting grants or juicy appointments. The ones who know the truth keep their heads down and mouths shut and try not to make waves.

    • @stucrossland3719
      @stucrossland3719 Год назад +1

      What a great comment👍👍

    • @blucheer8743
      @blucheer8743 Год назад +1

      Spot on!

  • @MJ-qg1tk
    @MJ-qg1tk Год назад +36

    I'm glad this many people are still commenting 7 years after the release of this video! I hope more people would seek the truth. Thank you for being curious and not believing everything you are being told.

  • @michaelblair6234
    @michaelblair6234 3 года назад +54

    The world will miss the genius and humility of Freeman Dyson. His common sense and deep understanding of the laws of physics are ignored by the AGW cult which is political, not scientific, in its motives.

  • @marieljunggren8568
    @marieljunggren8568 Год назад +49

    When science combines with common sense you get this: Brilliance and truth! ❤

  • @niallcurran7894
    @niallcurran7894 4 года назад +235

    Freeman Dyson, we need more sober minds like his in this modern scientific community. This has become a religion. Great interview.

    • @iseriver3982
      @iseriver3982 Год назад +1

      Yes, I remember how all religions never push against the scientific consensus...

    • @thedave7760
      @thedave7760 Год назад +1

      Religion requires that you neve dissent from the current dogma.

    • @johnathanmagliari8461
      @johnathanmagliari8461 Год назад

      His interpretation of the data is very wrong. That extra "greening" he refers to in satellite pics of earth is due to people fighting the carbon induced climate change by planting trees, grasslands, and farms in the deserts. That's all due to human hard work to FIGHT the increased carbon levels made by man

    • @nash984954
      @nash984954 Год назад

      Bullshit,of course, CO2 grows stuff and at one time levels of toxic O2 was being created and was at 350mil yrs later 30% but no humans lived then, but 60 mil yrs later O2 was at 12%. How many even know what we're breathung now? 20.9% at sea level.
      Findings real world is they were being conservative and the animals are responding by mass extinctions, and this guy was still yapping but never mentioned the animals humans are changing their migrations and interrupting by resource and over fishing and wiping out the fungi that holds ecosystems roots of trees together together was how mamals came back from the last extinction.
      BUT the 1st evidence of greenhouse gas was from Venus and they noticed similar events happening but advanced due to human activity. No humans are on Venus nor are there producers of smog it's worse, for other reasons, ours happens to be different since humans exist here.
      Fossil fuels industry has the research we need to stop producing more in the atmosphere and did Dyson check levels in the oceans where dead zones exist now ?
      AN EXPERT IN ONE FIELD DOES NOT MAKE AN EXPERT IN ANOTHER FIELD. So you got a pawn. big whoop.
      Human hubris has attacked the planet and it will respond and screw humans, all of them and what they think they know. Look at the animals response, not just CO2 one gamma ray burst and civilisation is gone its emp kills all computers. Dyson is not a cosmologist astronomer, or biologist.
      Money grubbing wealthy oligarchs are in control now and short term profits. Dyson is wrong about Asia.
      That's right can't understand IPPC report then poo poo it.
      I doubt a 91 yr old man still can understand the newest changes as they've come too quick, and to many all at once, the extreme weathers is nature trying to respond and it does things over eons and ages, not human lifetimes, and foresight is best understand can hope for. Foresight is worth something and is not exactly predicting as the context this guy wants to couch it in. Thanks for video

    • @nash984954
      @nash984954 Год назад

      @@thedave7760 'current' dogma? The Xians' Buybull has its last writing as done in 98AD its New Testicles chapters, a real testament to nutjobbery,
      so what current dogma you referring to Xian Zionists for whom John Hagee and his idolators of the fake state of Israel, no, of Zionists not Jews who have never been strong on nationalsim.

  • @Sapwolf
    @Sapwolf Год назад +10

    I can confirm. With CO2 up, I mowed the front lawn, went into the house to get a drink, came back outside and lo and behold, I swear that same lawn grew 3 inches while getting a drink. This was in southeast Michigan during the summer back around 2002. 🙂

    • @concert_rat1004
      @concert_rat1004 Год назад +3

      Lawn weeds grow 4” taller while you’re in the house getting a drink.

  • @tedbaxter5234
    @tedbaxter5234 4 года назад +11

    I agree - when someone says “Settled Science”, run!

  • @7munkee
    @7munkee 4 года назад +12

    CO2 is plant food. I learned that 45 years ago in 3rd grade.

  • @IIIRotor
    @IIIRotor 4 года назад +50

    I can attest to the greener. Our rain only came in early December, and we have not had this amount of vegetation grow this fast and this prolific, ever before.

    • @babsharris6724
      @babsharris6724 Год назад +12

      That's what my 89 years tell me to.

    • @IIIRotor
      @IIIRotor Год назад +7

      @Mr.Beant It is nether good nor bad... it's a fact... What is good is more CO2 gives more food, for less energy spent, in less time. Cold is much much harder to survive than hot... let Europe be the proof of that, this coming Winter...

    • @brunosco
      @brunosco 8 месяцев назад

      Last year (2022), the grass in my parent’s garden in Belgium was totally yellow/brown for the first time after high temps and droughts. So no, it’s not all greener. And Mr Dyson was also talking about crops, not just wild plants, so I guess a patch of grass counts.

  • @doyourbest7655
    @doyourbest7655 Год назад +21

    To bring my house plants back to health, they go outside near the laundry exhaust vent. That CO2 + warm air + water produces remarkable results.

    • @georgedavidson1221
      @georgedavidson1221 Год назад +2

      Smart

    • @durandalgmx7633
      @durandalgmx7633 Год назад +3

      If you mean your laundry dryer, it does not produce any CO2. It heats with electricity.

    • @_SimpleSam
      @_SimpleSam Год назад

      @@durandalgmx7633 People have gas dryers :D

    • @melvinrexwinkle1510
      @melvinrexwinkle1510 Год назад +1

      why does co2 come out of your dryer? I don't think so!

    • @_SimpleSam
      @_SimpleSam Год назад

      @@melvinrexwinkle1510 Gas dryers are better, lmfao

  • @elizabethannegrey6285
    @elizabethannegrey6285 Год назад +12

    What a MARVELLOUS elderly gentleman! So refreshing to hear such an educated person speak common sense and sanity into this fraught topic.

  • @johnshilling2221
    @johnshilling2221 4 года назад +72

    If anyone deserves the title of Sir, it is Dr Freeman Dyson. One of my favorite scientists, authors, and all-around people. He always examines the entire "Sphere" of each subject. (pun intended)

    • @Guitarman7133
      @Guitarman7133 4 года назад

      Fuck yeah! SIR elton john, SIR paul mcartney, fuck em. Narcassistic, pretentious fuck wads. I like their music though.

    • @ElCampiador
      @ElCampiador Год назад

      "Sirs" nowadays are only reserved for failed and mostly useless politicians like Tony Blair and the like.

    • @johncoughtrey8383
      @johncoughtrey8383 Год назад +3

      Wonderful top Mark's to Freeman Dyson for exposing the truth.

    • @johnbatson8779
      @johnbatson8779 7 месяцев назад

      He did not have a PhD, he actually worked for a living

  • @kbkesq
    @kbkesq 4 года назад +94

    Tony Heller fans here? Of course love to hear someone as erudite and scholarly as Dyson.

    • @KabelkowyJoe
      @KabelkowyJoe 4 года назад +2

      Inconvenient truth day - find and watch all talks, it give even more data to full understand background of all of these. More than Tony provides.

    • @beaugunn2632
      @beaugunn2632 4 года назад +9

      kbkesq ... You bet! I try to steer as many people as possible in Tony's direction.

    • @beaugunn2632
      @beaugunn2632 4 года назад +9

      @@KabelkowyJoe ... Mmmmore than Tony provides? My brain hurts already after one of his average, graph rich videos!

    • @KabelkowyJoe
      @KabelkowyJoe 4 года назад +1

      @@beaugunn2632 More i meant political background not just recent years, not just pure data. Where did it got from, who want it and for what reason ;)

    • @beaugunn2632
      @beaugunn2632 4 года назад +1

      @@KabelkowyJoe ..... Yeh, OK.

  • @lsequeira3139
    @lsequeira3139 Год назад +17

    A most refreshing conversation to hear. A real scientist speaking real scientific truth, with humility. And thank you Stuart McNish for conducting such an excellent interview.

  • @kandipoopipants1794
    @kandipoopipants1794 Год назад +10

    This needs to go viral again. Please!

  • @johnedwards785
    @johnedwards785 4 года назад +359

    "CO2 is so beneficial in so many ways it would be crazy to try to reduce it!" Freeman Dyson Well stated Mr. Dyson spoken with a mountain of wisdom that others have little or none of!!!

    • @9256steven
      @9256steven 4 года назад +14

      John, how rediculous are the IPCC, they want to extract Co2 from the air. A news feed I read today. Frightening really.

    • @johnedwards785
      @johnedwards785 4 года назад +12

      @ajspades19 Prove it by showing a link to the science that supports such a claim if it's true!

    • @marcpadilla1094
      @marcpadilla1094 4 года назад +4

      Above your pay grade. The environment or ecosystem under which you survive needs to be balanced against the life it supports. Not the other way around. If our existence creates an imbalance the system overrides towards correction. Hurricanes, floods,Typhoons, Twisters.Its turning on us and it will win.However,there are some of us that think we can weaponize the Earths forces for profit and purely selfish reasons. There are ways for elites to shelter themselves from whatever the Earth does to correct itself.

    • @charliesmith3561
      @charliesmith3561 4 года назад +3

      CO2 is necessary but too much is harmful. (As with almost all things that are necessary)

    • @charliesmith3561
      @charliesmith3561 4 года назад +5

      @John Bossley but humans struggle to function in 1000ppm of CO2. Is that good? This also applies to many animals. Thus the ecosystem would collapse

  • @Jagsrcool
    @Jagsrcool 5 лет назад +198

    How could he know anything? He is just a rational genius.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +3

      Who, on his own admission knows fuck all about it but just doesn't like AGW & ACC. Real genius that. Not.

    • @jwadaow
      @jwadaow 4 года назад +25

      @@boffeycn This is Freeman Dyson you are talking about here. "His own admission" is such a stupid phrase to use. All polite people play down their expertise if they are well educated.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад

      @@jwadaow "This is Freeman Dyson you are talking about here" Is it really? You amaze me with yur brilliant observational skills. Not.
      " "His own admission" is such a stupid phrase to use." Not al all. It is a fact.
      "All polite people play down their expertise if they are well educated." Dyson has never , ever played down anything to do with his self promotion as a superior creature, you ignorant wanker.
      If you had bothered your arrogant ignorant arse to do a little research you would not have posted your ludicrous claims, would you.
      If you had bothered your arrogant ignorant arse to do a little research you would also have known what he was claiming is total shite, wouldn't you.

    • @herringfly
      @herringfly 4 года назад +26

      @@boffeycn "total shite" ... you mean like the 11,000 "scientists" who signed a petition generated by someone's personal eco-blog? Wait a minute ... what was the other "total shite" part of that story ..?? .. Oh yes, the mainstream media passing it off as a genuine concensus of global climatologists. Still, along with wood-technology students and good old Mickey Mouse, a male nurse signed it - maybe he counts as a climate scientist in the la-la world of Extinction Rebellion and green virtue-signallers.

    • @jwadaow
      @jwadaow 4 года назад +7

      @@boffeycn I have not done as little research as you I will admit that any day. He is mainly promoted by his colleagues because of his insight and preeminence. "His own admission" is a stupid phrase, it doesn't make it true for someone to admit something and rhetoric is not a fact. I made no claims, if you had bothered your immature little bottom to learn to read before copy-pasting your response you wouldn't think that kind of grammatical abortion was clever.

  • @davidallen2077
    @davidallen2077 4 года назад +33

    "What I'm convinced of is that we don't understand climate ... It will take a lot of very hard work before that question is settled."----Freeman Dyson, 2014

    • @joeisawesome540
      @joeisawesome540 Год назад

      We also don’t fully understand cancer. I guess we shouldn’t treat anyone until then? We understand enough climate to know that there is a high possibility of it becoming very costly for human

    • @wilmamcdermott3065
      @wilmamcdermott3065 Год назад

      And who are u to question him . another lieing liberal

    • @chrisp3913
      @chrisp3913 Год назад +2

      @@joeisawesome540 good analogy except it isn’t

    • @joeisawesome540
      @joeisawesome540 Год назад

      @@chrisp3913 explain

    • @nitrousinject
      @nitrousinject Год назад

      @@joeisawesome540 we DO understand that cancer is bad for the host. We also DO understand that additional CO2 helps plant life thrive. We DON'T understand the totality of each factor "we" attribute to climate change.
      The argument is that you simply cannot model everything and there are some known and concrete facts, such as CO2 and nitrogen being beneficial to plant life, so we cannot ignore known facts in favor of assuming we know things that we aren't even close to grasping in totality. The current "science" does factor in many variables, but it also ignores just as many, either due to lack of knowledge or due to intent. For example, CO2 levels on Earth were historically orders of magnitude greater than they are now and the planet still supported life.

  • @brianrajala7671
    @brianrajala7671 2 года назад +31

    I am very pleased that people like Dr Freeman, Dr Happer, Dr Patrick Moore, Dr Estebrooks, and others continue to speak with facts ... against the masses who accept the destructive rhetoric that pounds our brains every day with many unsubstantiated predictions!

    • @brianrajala7671
      @brianrajala7671 2 года назад +2

      Dr Freeman Dyson that should be!

    • @arturoeugster7228
      @arturoeugster7228 Год назад +6

      This is getting more important as the politization of CO2 is increasing, to the point that entire well established power systems are destroyed to achieve the zero emission myth.

    • @arturoeugster7228
      @arturoeugster7228 Год назад +3

      Add Dr Otto Weiss to the group above

    • @jeffpizzuli9680
      @jeffpizzuli9680 Год назад +1

      Also, Roy Spencer, John Christy, Richard lindzen, Judith curry and so many more brilliant scientists that know this climate alarmism is bs

    • @jhacksb1399
      @jhacksb1399 9 месяцев назад

      Idiots believe anything they want to. Facts don’t matter. Hyperbole does!

  • @Ctajm
    @Ctajm 4 года назад +137

    I hope my mind is still this sharp when I'm 91 years old, 19 years from now. Dyson is still kicking at 95.

    • @lesliesepssy9222
      @lesliesepssy9222 4 года назад +7

      No worries mate, I am 81, 'uneducated' uni-verse-itied in nothing, and since the age of 12, I remained a free thinker, using the brain that my God blessed me with! Any more out there! Respond to our call!

    • @suziesmith2142
      @suziesmith2142 4 года назад +6

      Just keep thinking and learning and moving your body. I think people sit down, watch TV and they deteriorate. We don't have to do that. My roomy is deteriorating fast because she won't lose weight, she moves very little, she watches TV all day and the adverse health affects (effects)?, are piling up rapidly. She's only 66 and the poor thing is a MESS. Her mother lived to be 98, was fully ambulatory with very little cognitive decline. I know personally, and have seen many, people in their late 90's and beyond, who are truly sharp. Back when I was a kid, (I'm 62), a lot of people in their 60's had gotten old! Not today. My grandmother lived to be in her late 90's. Keep moving your body and keep learning. It's such a joy. The only TV show I watch is Better Call Saul, (but I watch it online), and I spend most of my screen time watching and listening to people in the sciences as well as other "how to" videos. RUclips is an amazing place. Best wishes for a very long, sharp and healthy life!

    • @suziesmith2142
      @suziesmith2142 4 года назад +5

      @@lesliesepssy9222 Sometimes, a university does more damage than good, these days. But the honest scientists who are not working for the govt are a blessing for all of us. Check out Patrick Moore- he just recently gave a talk that was just stellar. His ability to provide complex data in a way us "un-universitied" types can understand, is remarkable. And his love for nature, our blessed earth and human beings shines through, joyously.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +1

      No, he is bull shitting and lying.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +1

      @@lesliesepssy9222 Which god was that?

  • @thegeneralist7527
    @thegeneralist7527 5 лет назад +86

    I'm amazed there are only 2000 views. Dyson has a unique perspective and I love how he frames his life growing up in the depression and not expecting to survive made him an optimist.

    • @williambaikie5739
      @williambaikie5739 5 лет назад +17

      RUclips must play with the numbers. Tony Heller's youtubes always have way low views too. Views=$ so get doctored by leftist as they think 'denialist are shills for $$' , of course it is the alarmist who really do it for the money.

    • @jcalpha2717
      @jcalpha2717 4 года назад +5

      Idk I'm looking at 34,686 views

    • @thegeneralist7527
      @thegeneralist7527 4 года назад +6

      @@jcalpha2717 Yes, its hot now. Posted June 2015 evidently but now it is finally getting some well deserved views.

    • @paularthur5563
      @paularthur5563 4 года назад +6

      this is sept 28 views are over 65,000 and 2.2k likes - dont forget to hit the like button ppl - give it a boost

    • @ConversationsThatMatter
      @ConversationsThatMatter  3 года назад +16

      RUclips is blocking this interview

  • @Epsilonsama
    @Epsilonsama 3 года назад +86

    Dyson died recently in February of this year 2020. This guy was a hell of a mind and it's good to see that he saw the BS behind the Climate hysteria.

    • @kevincronin464
      @kevincronin464 Год назад

      remember the sad day Dyson passed away. This remember before any lockdowns had startedand the news was only 5% abt covid19. There was not a single piece abt this sad news aired at all that day on the bbc news.
      Shameful, but not shocking in the WOKE bbc news of today.

    • @krasavam1625
      @krasavam1625 Год назад

      is he a Nobel prize winner

    • @MrMawnster
      @MrMawnster Год назад

      Too bad he's utterly wrong. Eh even the smartest people aren't perfect though right. Stop your idolization.

    • @peterdelmonte9832
      @peterdelmonte9832 10 месяцев назад

      These comments are so funny. Armchair warriors attracted by the inevitable loner, conveniently ignoring the overwhelming body of research saying the opposite.
      Before the Americans were bamboozled into voting in Trump, I remember him seated with a group of out of work West Virginian coal miners. The mines had closed. He told them when he became President he’d reopen those mines. Directly after, a mining engineer explained why that would be impossible owing to flooding and resultant collapses…plus the industry was uneconomic. I’ve checked over the intervening years and no mine was reopened. My guess is that those desperate former miners were convinced to vote for that lying psychopath at least once. Then we grew one of our own! I’m not saying this elderly chap has a personality disorder, only that to believe the one voice that appeals to you is a mistake.

    • @johnbatson8779
      @johnbatson8779 7 месяцев назад

      no, he actually did real work in this physical world....remember a Nobel was granted to the idiot who developed the frontal lobotomy, a procedure that maimed thousands@@krasavam1625

  • @Quadrant14
    @Quadrant14 4 года назад +11

    R.I.P Freeman Dyson a giant of Science

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад

      Who lost the plot.

  • @realityisreal3928
    @realityisreal3928 5 лет назад +226

    what a good and smart man. more people should listen to him.

    • @mattsmith87
      @mattsmith87 4 года назад +5

      @John Bossley So governments should listen to his point of view rather than the hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers that provide statistics and figures supporting the anthropogenic view of climate change. All produced by climate scientists, whereas he is a physicist. You really are an easily duped special kind of stupid aren't you?

    • @Treeesmith
      @Treeesmith 4 года назад +1

      matt smith climate science is a scam perpetuated by paid shills and morons
      Which are you?

    • @stucrossland3719
      @stucrossland3719 Год назад +1

      He will be ignored because the agenda is in motion and governments are benefiting enormously.

    • @DSBeholder
      @DSBeholder Год назад +2

      A true expert....

    • @kazzana9013
      @kazzana9013 Год назад

      @@stucrossland3719 Yes, the powers that be have invented a new tax stream and diverted sovereignty to world central power via this agenda. We will now see a push for centralized power in regards to health in future, whereby a very small group of unelected people make decisions for all.

  • @williambaikie5739
    @williambaikie5739 5 лет назад +414

    Doctor Dyson speaks the truth, thanks! I hope more scientist stop hiding and denounce the alarmism over CO2.

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 5 лет назад +6

      Read the relevant peer reviewed scientific literature, withdraw your comments and then submit an apology

    • @williambaikie5739
      @williambaikie5739 5 лет назад +34

      @@PetraKann I have, no and no. If you have read the literature and are still an Alarmist then you want to be one. Alarmist generally are uneducated and know so little about science that they just cite authority and say silly things like "97% of scientist agree".

    • @cindymerkley5758
      @cindymerkley5758 5 лет назад +31

      The scientists that go along with the climate change theory get the grants money talks and politicians. Can use this scare to control the people

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 5 лет назад +2

      @@cindymerkley5758 what about scientists who work in the fossil fuel industry?
      Cindy you should apologise

    • @rogerdiogo6893
      @rogerdiogo6893 4 года назад +8

      The invention of the heat index, what in Europa is call humidity allows people to show a warming world, when is actually cooling...

  • @petonovy
    @petonovy Год назад +45

    Excellent interview. Very intelligent and educated answers by Mr.Dyson. Thank you.

  • @kennethward4985
    @kennethward4985 Год назад +7

    Love what he said that so many of us know instinctively, climate change believers are more like a religion than fact based. The truth is a model can give you any results you want according to the program and numbers you give it.

    • @wwsuggs2857
      @wwsuggs2857 Год назад +1

      Grampa " Bill". Told me. About math with the caviette.
      Figures don't lie...but liars can figure... never found that saying to be in error.

    • @nicolagianaroli2024
      @nicolagianaroli2024 9 месяцев назад +1

      Orwell in 1984 explain that in Oceania the ideology is called EngSoc but in Eastasia the ideology is a sort of deathcult. Seems that at current time we are under the influence of both of them

  • @susancronk8512
    @susancronk8512 4 года назад +58

    Why would we need to genetically modify trees? Just plant more.

    • @dropbearjd8986
      @dropbearjd8986 4 года назад +5

      If we can modify one tree to absorb 10x as much carbon dioxide as a regular tree....I mean....that could be kinda useful.

    • @chriss2595
      @chriss2595 4 года назад +1

      @@dropbearjd8986 Possibly. But we learned also that a lot of genetically modified products are more sensitive to diseases, even after years. So, it's always experimenting in real life.

    • @dropbearjd8986
      @dropbearjd8986 4 года назад +2

      Chris S true. It's all a big con anyway so we won't need to mess with them. But she asked 'why?' And in the context of what he said....

    • @chriss2595
      @chriss2595 4 года назад +2

      @@dropbearjd8986 Agreed. ;-)

    • @pjmclach
      @pjmclach 4 года назад +1

      we dont

  • @RandyFelts2121
    @RandyFelts2121 4 года назад +42

    When I was a child science class taught that Carbon Dioxide was a good thing, but if you think it's bad then you need to stop breathing out just hold it in I reckon?

    • @lesliesepssy9222
      @lesliesepssy9222 4 года назад +1

      Hold your breath, that way you shortly won't have to pay any of your taxes!

  • @kayeallen2742
    @kayeallen2742 Год назад +4

    My children have been environmentalist’s since elementary school and it continues through University. Their passion is intriguing even though they label me a climate change denier. I believe climate changes daily and we must simply deal with what we are given. Alas, I find Mr Dyson’s talk very refreshing.

  • @williamm8069
    @williamm8069 Год назад +21

    As a biologist, my intuituon was that higher CO2 would increase photosynthesis as many marihuana growers understand. This would yield more O2 as well. Another not often discussed topic is the combustion reaction of hydrocarbons yields additional atmospheric H2O vapor. Clouds are difficult to model but can reflect sunlight away from earth thus cooling it a bit.

    • @georgehofgren6123
      @georgehofgren6123 Год назад +1

      "A bit"... more like Tremendously. Air pollution seeds clouds which is Why we were cooler without current Extreme emissions regulations than we are now. The difference is clear, even over just the past ten years ~

    • @franklinmartin8103
      @franklinmartin8103 Год назад +1

      You are correct sir.

    • @kazzana9013
      @kazzana9013 Год назад +1

      Conversely, clouds can also act as a blanket for the earth and keep heat in. I have often noticed more stable temperatures here in New Zealand when we have a blanket of clouds, particularly overnight.

    • @georgehofgren6123
      @georgehofgren6123 Год назад

      @@kazzana9013 Here we go again with standard ignorance of Thermodynamics... yep, Clouds can mitigate heat loss, just like a blanket. That doesn't INCREASE temperature, it Stabilizes it. BLOCKING sunlight from even making it to the earth surface Decreases temperature, regardless of what it does or doesn't block, coming off 🙄~

    • @georgehofgren6123
      @georgehofgren6123 Год назад

      When You put on a blanket, You get warmer because You radiate heat (from the food you eat). A Rock doesn't make, nor radiate hear. If you leave a blanket on a rock anywhere on the planet it will ultimately Cool off, not warm up -

  • @lbaker3602001
    @lbaker3602001 4 года назад +19

    I've known this way back in the 1970's, High biology class. Plants & trees take in CO2 'as food' and produce O2 'Oxygen'. I'm no scientist, where's my $250K salary ?

    • @antsiro
      @antsiro 4 года назад +1

      And most people don't remember the end of that class: when there is no sunlight (night) plants breath oxygen and produce CO2. Net carbon absorption is rather small, as much as oxygen production for most plants..

  • @kahtel1873
    @kahtel1873 4 года назад +147

    Dr . Dyson speaks the truth. It’s refreshing isn’t it when the truth is let out.

    • @hosnimubarak8869
      @hosnimubarak8869 4 года назад +4

      FREEMAN DYSON has ties to the Mercer Family Foundation whos tax returns since 2005 show some $22 million has gone to groups pushing climate science denial.
      Across the board, the groups funded by the Mercers have misrepresented climate science, promoted fossil fuels, denigrated renewable energy, and pushed to strip powers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

    • @alwoo5645
      @alwoo5645 4 года назад +10

      @@hosnimubarak8869 yeah yeah a shill etc you think he's lying for money? get a grip!

    • @hosnimubarak8869
      @hosnimubarak8869 4 года назад +2

      @@alwoo5645
      Truth hurts eh.

    • @alwoo5645
      @alwoo5645 4 года назад +3

      @@hosnimubarak8869 yeah it's hurts you when a scientific genius like Dyson tell it as it is. The guy is in his 90s he has no desire for financial gain you idiot.

    • @hosnimubarak8869
      @hosnimubarak8869 4 года назад +4

      @@alwoo5645
      Money talks Al, and Tyson knows which side of the bread the butter goes on.

  • @methods3110
    @methods3110 2 года назад +4

    “Burning oil and coal probably does us good.”

  • @ThisBloke760
    @ThisBloke760 Год назад +3

    Now they want to minimise nitrogen in farming. There must be a malevolent force at work when they label the most necessary elements of life as bad. Next it’ll be excess oxygen

  • @nbrown5907
    @nbrown5907 4 года назад +5

    CO2 is about 400 PPM, through most of Earth's history it has been well over 1000 PPM but no one wants to talk about that fact.

  • @superbad1585
    @superbad1585 4 года назад +24

    Without co2 we would die along with all life on earth.

  • @caeserromero3013
    @caeserromero3013 Год назад +2

    The climate models are like trying to predict the winners of horse races by studying the names of the jockey, and leaving out the horses, their form, or the race track conditions etc etc

  • @mr.t5262
    @mr.t5262 Год назад +10

    The perfect person/mind... in perfect life circumstances, to be able to tell the truth as he sees it without fear .
    Enlightening.... AND refreshing to hear...👏

  • @ivantuma7969
    @ivantuma7969 4 года назад +22

    all the nice green grass growing in Siberia now (in between craters left by released ice-age methane pockets) ..."this is fine, I like it here ... it's green"

    • @kellyw8017
      @kellyw8017 4 года назад +1

      Thing is, Earth's climate constantly changes all on its own without humans. We act like the smallest potential change over the next 80 years would be catastrophic. If you look at studies that don't cook the books, there have been many cycles were the earth was warmer than even what is projected if CO2 actually does cause a slight temperature increase. One study states that there is a saturation point for CO2-caused increase in temperature--and we're there or about there already; after that, the effect levels off. I believe we should focus on reducing human pollutants in the air, which seems to be far more relevant. And most importantly, we all know that cars will go mostly electric within the next 20 years. And fusion technology will eventually come about within the next 30 years. For now, we can almost instantly reduce 1/4 of greenhouse methane emissions by not eating meat (which also saves about 25% of fresh water and will drastically reduce or stop the clearing of the Amazon rainforest). Since that's not happening, it's clear evidence that the doomsday proselytizers aren't actually certain that what they're saying is gospel. Plus, no one believing in the dire nature of global warming would take any Uber unless it was UberPool, which is the only option that reduces CO2; Uber as a taxi service increases CO2. And I can't tell you how many prostelizers refuse to give up meat and insist on using Uber as a taxi service, instead of taking UberPool. I would love to do a study to see how many take an Uber to get a burger or other meaty take-out.

    • @glennllewellyn7369
      @glennllewellyn7369 4 года назад

      Give me some please.
      Hello from Australia.

  • @mickbrenton
    @mickbrenton 4 года назад +193

    I can’t get over how sharp and humorous he is at his age!

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +5

      Cocaine.

    • @daos3300
      @daos3300 4 года назад +6

      that's called intelligence.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +3

      @@daos3300 So why is it he knows fuck all about what the things on which he is pontificating?
      Example. Computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it." Thereby proving Dyson didn't have a clue about the subject! He had obviously only listened to liars and believed them without bothering to check, proof the old boy was senile and had lost the plot. Great shame.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +1

      @@poochie81 Do you do English as well as infantile word salads?

    • @mickbrenton
      @mickbrenton 4 года назад +6

      Darren Maltby Thank you for calling out Willy Wong on his wong think!

  • @curtisk2286
    @curtisk2286 Год назад +2

    Will Happer further proves him correct
    This guy worked at Princeton when Einstein did.
    Absolute Treasure.
    But you won't see on MSM.

  • @theodorelukasz912
    @theodorelukasz912 Год назад +8

    Makes absolute sense! Especially about the myriad amount of factors when "measuring" c02 and carbon dioxide, wind, landscape, mountains, altitude, weather and the list goes on...
    In Australia we were ravaged with climate events the past two years and the one thing I've learnt is fire and carbon dioxide is not necessarily a bad thing.
    The fires that hit our East coast shredded and destroyed so much and still the rain that came within a week or so of this event was so refreshing after the smoke.
    I was lucky enough to travel and witness the aftermath of this event and to see the scorched trees growing so much folage so quickly seemed almost unnatural.
    There seems to almost more dense forests growing which only adds to my belief that the Earth is living and breathing organism which is so complicated that to say without a doubt we are doing the majority of damage is I believe just crazy!
    When we take into consideration not only the solar flares that the sun expels which we have absolutely no way of manipulating, that can take weeks or months for us to feel rhe effects.
    Add events of volcano's like the recent ones in Tonga which expel billions of tonnes of chemicals and minerals into the atmosphere.
    The fact that life on this planet is carbon and in some way or another uses energy or carbon and expels waste for it to be changed into another matter... for there to be a campaign to reduce carbon emissions I see is essentially a fight against the living.
    Could we be less wasteful yes certainly could we minimise our impact yes... however there are still going to be events yearly or monthly that do more damage than we humans do in a whole year with our contributed pollution.
    The weather is a weird and wonderful thing when it can snow in summer in Australia when we are supposed to be in a "global warming phase".
    But now what seems to be a cult for the woke call it "climate change" which is like saying its raining today but we won't measure the rainfall. We can not dispute the climate is changing however the question remains... Why? And how?

  • @micc6462
    @micc6462 4 года назад +168

    I think it's time to take back our world from the lunatics

    • @joshward7896
      @joshward7896 4 года назад +3

      Which lunatics?

    • @micc6462
      @micc6462 4 года назад +1

      @@joshward7896 the mad ones

    • @grantsmith6052
      @grantsmith6052 4 года назад

      @@joshward7896 Michael Bloomberg

    • @pablowall
      @pablowall 4 года назад +2

      agreed... we need an enlightened centrist uprising. both the left and right have become so politicized to the point of spewing propaganda

    • @johnsergei
      @johnsergei 4 года назад +2

      Their lunacy has earned them trillions of $ real wealth (not money). We are the loonies.

  • @superapex2128
    @superapex2128 4 года назад +17

    Any high school graduate knew about the carbon cycle back in the day.
    This is not rocket science but it certainly bears repeating!

  • @gavincutler8889
    @gavincutler8889 9 месяцев назад

    As a recently retired physicist/engineer, I’m likewise humbled by Dyson’s intellect, eclecticism, and achievements. One of my teaching areas was sustainable engineering (Masters level). It is important to be open minded and apolitical when dealing with physical reality. To this end, I used to recommend Lomborg’s book (Cool It) for background/context and show video clips from the movie to my students. Neither Dyson nor Lomborg are climate change deniers, and neither would advocate ignoring that the earth’s resources are not infinite. Conversely, we cannot infer that all concern over climate change is politically motivated hysteria or doomsaying. The important focus for humanity is to maintain or hopefully improve living standards and health outcomes. This requires both pragmatism in the transition to sustainable production of energy and goods (including foods), and vigilance in the objective monitoring and modelling of potentially damaging (or beneficial) environmental changes. Confirmation bias changes nothing and benefits few apart from perhaps hedge funds. Cool aid of any flavour doesn’t alter reality. Generally, things are moving in the right direction now. Perhaps a little slowly for outright optimism, but hopefully we will “get there” without a bout of large scale suffering.

  • @stevendellow9505
    @stevendellow9505 Год назад +7

    He's right in his summing up as he is all along. Things have improved but what we have got is leaders that live to peddle fear.

  • @lf4459
    @lf4459 4 года назад +315

    I celebrate CO2 , the most lifegiving mollecule ever !

    • @pcproffy
      @pcproffy 4 года назад +16

      when you hold your breath, That burning, unavoidable desire to breathe is do to excess co2 making your blood toxic. It is not caused by lack of oxygen.

    • @brett22bt
      @brett22bt 4 года назад +7

      You're a fucking idiot Ludovic

    • @Leonardo555ZZZ
      @Leonardo555ZZZ 4 года назад +27

      CO2 is essential for all life on Earth...less than 150ppm and plants die ,,if plants die ,,everything dies.

    • @brett22bt
      @brett22bt 4 года назад +5

      @@Leonardo555ZZZ BTW I live in Australia and even our far right government has finally conceded climate change is real and is a direct result of human involvement after the entire fucking roof fell on their heads. Time to wake up because time is short.
      .....and no the fires weren't started by tree hugging animal lovers.

    • @grantduke318
      @grantduke318 4 года назад +16

      Brett McNear Tell me, how can the same “climate change alarmists,” spread nonsense about how storms have been increasingly more destructive due to hotter, more water vapor dense air columns, while also portraying the fires in Australia are also 100% caused by climate change. Whenever the world has a catastrophe, it’s just automatically due to human impact, because that obviously makes sense? The rate of CO2 increase is concerning, but it’s not that simple. In Australia controlled burns didn’t happen like they needed to, on top of whatever kind of La Niña/ El Niño caused a prolonged dry period. These our things out of humanity’s control, no carbon tax or organization could have altered the outcome. People are just becoming more and more control freaks as our technological lives evolve us into more reliance. You can’t control nature! No amount of renewables will ever make a dent in leading us towards carbon negative, nor would we want to. Plants and animals can thrive perfectly fine with 2000 ppm CO2, there is no evidence suggesting otherwise. Ever heard of diminishing returns?

  • @melvinhunt6976
    @melvinhunt6976 5 лет назад +100

    Ever notice how Healthy and Green the GRASS AND TREES ARE ON ALL OF THE HIGHWAYS!

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 5 лет назад +6

      Read the relevant peer reviewed scientific literature, withdraw your comments and then submit an apology

    • @melvinhunt6976
      @melvinhunt6976 5 лет назад +21

      @@PetraKann l've read the fake reports. The liberals have skewed the Whole climate change Hoax! You Are taught in school, at least 40 years ago, to be able to make an argument both one way or another. I've read both sides and climate change is a LIE. !

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 5 лет назад +3

      @@melvinhunt6976 List 5 peer reviewed scientific articles that relate to Anthropogenic Global Warming and its effect on climate, sea level, ice cover etc
      (I am fully aware of the level of propaganda in the USA. Also the division of people's opinions due to the politicisation of this simple scientific fact)

    • @melvinhunt6976
      @melvinhunt6976 5 лет назад +2

      @@PetraKann you have the same information l have, you are greener, and lm not. My argument doesn't matter to you,nor yours to me.

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 5 лет назад

      @@melvinhunt6976 The truth matters though.,
      Why are you afraid of it?
      You must apologise in writing Mr Hunt

  • @VeronicaMist
    @VeronicaMist Год назад +7

    THIS is the 23 minutes my soul needed. ❤️ thank you 🙏🏻

  • @eleleven3694
    @eleleven3694 Год назад +6

    Good to hear him talking about the sun. Brilliant conversation. Honest science

    • @moony77
      @moony77 8 месяцев назад

      I do wish we would talk more about the ozone layer.

  • @raisingconsciousness77
    @raisingconsciousness77 4 года назад +29

    "It would be crazy to try to reduce it (co2)."

  • @9realitycheck9
    @9realitycheck9 4 года назад +21

    Plants on average utilize H2O (water) more efficiently at these higher CO2 levels.

  • @johngrear6506
    @johngrear6506 Год назад +10

    My God, 91 years old and still an absolute rockstar.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 11 месяцев назад

      well i hope he have a good 15 years more to live. He do look a bit... well aged.
      When my grandad was 91 he was still doing bike races.

  • @StevenRueschDE
    @StevenRueschDE Год назад +7

    Really informative. It confirms a hunch I had about things I learned in school. I love the well-mannered form of interview. I don't know where this provocative form of questioning has it's basis but I'm glad this intelligent person was allowed to pass on valuable data .

  • @dickfitswell3437
    @dickfitswell3437 5 лет назад +29

    No joke. Texas has nevee been greener. Used to drive to the top of the BW8 ship channel bridge and look at the trees on the east side of the channel and it was blah. These last 5yrs or so it is just this brilliant dark green that looks so god darned healthy.

    • @ronusa1976
      @ronusa1976 5 лет назад +2

      I have to cut my lawn 2 times a week years ago once every week.

    • @davem5308
      @davem5308 4 года назад

      Dick, have a talk with your fellowman in Australia. Not all of Earth is greening up.
      Why is California all effed up, when it needs not be? Don't be fooled by what you see in Texas! All is not right and well elsewhere.
      Texas has been a clear target of the geoengineering monster
      for several years. You need to address the WHOLE Texas scenario.

    • @ericstyles3724
      @ericstyles3724 4 года назад

      Climate Change has bought a bevy of full time rain in the whole area, similar things happened in the Canadian Prairies this summer, sh¡t·tons of rain.
      I call it full time Polar Vortex displacement creating more warm/cold contrast.
      Alberta got 1/3 more rain overall than normal for July+ August..!
      Significant & we were very green..
      much greener than usual, right up until Sept.29th when a foot of snow fell overnight, forcing some farmers into panic mode..
      This is for real now man.

    • @ericstyles3724
      @ericstyles3724 4 года назад

      @@davem5308 Dave : Cali is drying out, as the whole west coast is where I lived for 40 yrs, bec. of an outa control warming Pacific Ocean.
      Past the Rocky mtns. & it's wet again. geographically I believe this will be a worldwide trend.

    • @susanwebster7584
      @susanwebster7584 4 года назад +2

      @@davem5308 Yes, but Australia has always had droughts. If the Left and Greens hadnt stuffed up the Murry-Darling for the farmers and wildlife AND hadnt stopped the building of dams we'd all be a lot better off - we'd be prepared for these inevitable droughts.

  • @janewhitington9461
    @janewhitington9461 4 года назад +23

    Thank you, kind sir, I am 82, and I remember my mother talking about the Spanish Flu epidemic and how amazing that she and other members of our family survived, and seeing a video of the effects all over the US and in combination with the WW1 buildup and the war itself make me wonder really how much we can withstand and come out strong again and vibrant. That flu and in combination with a very ugly war (trench warfare) was devastating, and within ten years afterwards, the country was forging forward. We humans are very resillient, and we really don't need to create gloom and doom scenarios, especially on flimsy evidence and for political power and financial gain. Thanks again; I'm glad to see that you are still alive and well. God bless!

    • @bvictory5698
      @bvictory5698 Год назад +3

      Hope you are 84 and still kicking Jane, we younger generations need healthy elders with sharp memories like yours, especially today.

  • @pluijm2
    @pluijm2 2 года назад +33

    "Battling climate change" keeps the gravy train going, that's all.

    • @BRM101
      @BRM101 Год назад +2

      Sure does and the train just keeps getting longer

    • @JamieZero7
      @JamieZero7 Год назад +1

      Keeps the votes and money going. A good tool for ideologically aligned to keep their power.

    • @welderlogic1806
      @welderlogic1806 Год назад +1

      It's one of the popular false narratives that those in positions of power use to perpetuate their position.
      In other words, government uses a boogeyman to make you think you need more government.

    • @pluijm2
      @pluijm2 Год назад +1

      @@welderlogic1806 Exactly right.

  • @lukewiseman9946
    @lukewiseman9946 Год назад +3

    What a charming man! I believe that Dr. Dyson tells us as much by what he does not say as by what he does. If you notice, he sometimes gives a very short answer, such as "Yes.", and leaves the rest unsaid.

  • @samslick9000
    @samslick9000 4 года назад +13

    21:10 That guy in Vancouver owns oceanfront properties in Vancouver, on Georgia strait island . Also, one in Australia he has to fly to. He doesn't seem to think rising ocean levels will affect his properties

    • @lokensga
      @lokensga 3 года назад

      All this brilliance - - talking about everything but the incontrovertible, namely, the rising ocean levels. Straight-forward calculations of the amount of glacier ice in the world and the known accelerating rate of melting leads to the inescapable conclusion of the disappearance of most of Bangladesh, half of Florida, major coastal cities all over the world... I have yet to see any argument against this predictable effect.

    • @blueodum
      @blueodum 2 года назад +3

      @@lokensga Sea level measurements are rising (at most) about 2.3 mm per year. Or maybe the coasts are subsiding, or a combination - hard to tell the difference. Some coastlines will suffer sea level rises, some drops. The rate is so slow that humans will easily adapt to these changes.

  • @bobjackson4720
    @bobjackson4720 5 лет назад +516

    It's so interesting/reassuring to hear a more realistic, practical point of view.

    • @michaelmcintyre9179
      @michaelmcintyre9179 4 года назад +8

      I read a report on C Change it claims while co2 is good for plants , in the long run it may produce plants that are less nutritious .
      At roughly the same time The Weather Network on computer stated that if we planted billions of trees this would fix climate change.
      Now in truth plants absorb co2 during the day but at night they give off gases .
      I do recall that when in Brazil , way way back they started hacking away the rain forest , it would be the end of times.
      I recall thinking to -myself some power or force should make them stop, but no one listened

    • @johnnyrotten4895
      @johnnyrotten4895 4 года назад +3

      He said practical .

    • @russellfield5010
      @russellfield5010 4 года назад +28

      @@michaelmcintyre9179 The gas trees give off is called oxygen.

    • @mattsmith87
      @mattsmith87 4 года назад +4

      Point of view... you said it. What about the peer reviewed scientific papers in scientific journals that say climate change is a result of anthropogenic activity?

    • @russellfield5010
      @russellfield5010 4 года назад +10

      @@michaelmcintyre9179 Genetic modification is making our food less nutricious.

  • @dosomething3
    @dosomething3 2 года назад +3

    15:20 “ CO2 is so beneficial in other ways it would be absurd to try and reduce it”

  • @OxAO
    @OxAO 4 года назад +1

    Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 - 28 February 2020)
    RIP to a great man

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +1

      Who sadly lost the plot.

  • @deepsouthinception
    @deepsouthinception 4 года назад +138

    Refreshing conversation, thank you for posting. I am sick of climate change hysteria based on misrepresentations of data mislabeled as "science".

    • @ThomasLee123
      @ThomasLee123 Год назад +2

      Truth!

    • @boilingfrog783
      @boilingfrog783 Год назад

      Unfortunately, Stuart seems to have now drunk the MMCC Kool Aid, judging by his more recent interviews.

    • @DSBeholder
      @DSBeholder Год назад

      Same here

    • @roldangonzalez7360
      @roldangonzalez7360 Год назад

      The Marxist democrats will always create a crisis where there is no crisis. Their aim throughout history never changes, to control the masses implement policy through propaganda and fear, that lead to the destruction and death of any society that they get their hands on. They have no belief in God almighty, no respect of personal rights, property, wealth or freedom. The right of conscience is not allowed nor is the right to believe and worship GOD. They are the very opposite of what America 🇺🇸 stands for. We are so fortunate to live in such a wonderful country GOD BLESS America 🇺🇸 in JESUS name🙏🏻

  • @gareth5000
    @gareth5000 4 года назад +51

    When I was into naughtyculture I discovered Co2 enrichment. It made a huge difference.You could watch the plants growing in front of your eyes! Light, water, nutrients and heat, plants go crazy. Like in the Carboniferous age.
    In the dark ages there was mass starvation and disease, we don't want that.

    • @eviken1982
      @eviken1982 4 года назад +5

      Yes that's true all what i see in my backjard that everything is growing to fast.

    • @darkmanx2825
      @darkmanx2825 Год назад +6

      When you mix carbon dioxide with humidity in veg the explosions are amazing......

    • @gingercox6468
      @gingercox6468 Год назад +11

      Im afraid there are factions today that are intentionally working toward famine!

    • @gareth5000
      @gareth5000 Год назад +3

      I agree, it’s terrifying!

    • @JennyBrie2006
      @JennyBrie2006 Год назад +1

      @@gingercox6468 I agree

  • @davidhilderman
    @davidhilderman 4 года назад +1

    Such a great thing to have this interview before Dr. Dyson passed away on February 28, 2020.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад

      No, it was pitiful to witness a once great mind having degenerated.

  • @Hoax-bp5pq
    @Hoax-bp5pq Год назад +3

    What a great interview, you can see Freeman has no agenda, just saying it how he sees it… what a great man

  • @thebluedan
    @thebluedan 4 года назад +13

    “We don’t know for sure”...that is an intelligent statement. We know next to nothing about how anything works.

    • @pablorages1241
      @pablorages1241 4 года назад +1

      I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
      Socrates

  • @motorcop505
    @motorcop505 4 года назад +129

    The “Average Global Temperature” is meaningless, since there are countless microclimates that exist all over the earth, let alone the difference between continents. Likewise, nobody can say what the optimal “average temperature” is! Great interview.

    • @MrDorbel
      @MrDorbel 2 года назад +8

      The temperatures are taken in all areas of the globe and averaged out, so not meaningless. We can say that there is an optimal average temperature for life as we know it and it is rising at an alarming rate. Dr Dyson is indeed an original thinker and a very charming man, but as the years pass, he veers further away from reality.

    • @alfredvinciguerra532
      @alfredvinciguerra532 2 года назад +4

      We have evolved to live in the tropics not on ice

    • @MrDorbel
      @MrDorbel 2 года назад +6

      @@alfredvinciguerra532 Actually that isn't true. Half the world's population lives between Latitudes 20º and 40º North, the temperate zone that suits us, our animals and our crops. Tropical life is tough and getting tougher.

    • @blueodum
      @blueodum 2 года назад +3

      @@qed100 There are huge limitations in this approach. The problem is that many people don't understand how much uncertainty is in these measures.

    • @patriciamccandless7940
      @patriciamccandless7940 Год назад +4

      Yep at my work it can be 2 to 3 degrees hotter than my home, 28 miles away.

  • @MottiShneor
    @MottiShneor Год назад +3

    I am thankful for this interview. I'm trying to educate myself with evidence and some scientific material, however, despite my puny BSc. in physics, I can't really understand much of it. That's where the "climate change apocalypse" religion takes in - Most people, even educated and intelligent ones, cannot (and usually won't) make a scientific counter-argue. Religion blooms in the absence of certainty. All the needed dark space for monsters and angels to develop and multiply. I wouldn't mind so much, if those people did not hold a political power to unleash huge technological changes that can REALLY break the earth's complex climate system. I'm terrified to think that our future is in the hands of religious fanatics, who do NOT care for the real earth, but more for their own nostalgic and sentimental views, or cliches about it.
    This is dangerous.

  • @JonathanBaggaley
    @JonathanBaggaley Год назад +2

    Have just come across this conversation and it's so refreshing

  • @dougfinn
    @dougfinn 4 года назад +82

    What a great conversation. Thank you to everyone who made it possible for us to hear it.

  • @RussW185
    @RussW185 5 лет назад +102

    Climate Change protagonists are spreading like a plague. We need a balanced argument.

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 5 лет назад +5

      The argument was settled about 60 years ago in the Peer reviewed scientific literature.
      That is where science conducts its business.
      You can discuss whatever you like in public.
      There was a "balanced" argument in public that debated whether smoking tobacco products is detrmental to a person's health or causes diseases such as cancer. Remember that? Is that the sort of "balanced argument" you are calling for?
      Anthropogenically driven global warming and its effects on climate, sea level, ice melting, extinction rates, disease migration, coral bleaching etc are clearly outlined in a vast peer review scientific literature base than spans back to the original publication in the 1840s.
      You can either refer to the studies, evidence and conclusions published by the relevant scientific experts or continue posting spin, corporate propaganda, flat earther type ignorance and fear.
      Now which is it going to be Mr Wellings?
      You need to submit a public apology.

    • @stanleytolle416
      @stanleytolle416 4 года назад

      From guys that know nothing about the subject?

    • @normanstewart9857
      @normanstewart9857 4 года назад +7

      It's astonishing, and worrying, how susceptible people are to government propaganda.

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 4 года назад +3

      @@normanstewart9857 ...rather than corporate propaganda.

    • @bipolatelly9806
      @bipolatelly9806 4 года назад +3

      Petra Kann
      That's what you spread.
      "corporate propaganda". It's just that you're far too dumb to realise it.
      You're what's known (by those in the know) as a "useful idiot".

  • @Skans-Gustav
    @Skans-Gustav Год назад +3

    Wonderful, and this is as true now as it was 7 years ago when this was posted. What clever and gentle man; a true gentleman surely?

  • @TommyTheWalker
    @TommyTheWalker Год назад +4

    This man has a long history in science, so you don't mind if I don't believe the AOCs and the Greta Thunbergs of the world

  • @jeffreyluciana8711
    @jeffreyluciana8711 4 года назад +64

    We are in a carbon-starved period in earth's history. We need higher CO2 in the atmosphere

    • @lesliesepssy9222
      @lesliesepssy9222 4 года назад +2

      Notice, truth is shouted down in every level, the media leading the way, blessed by the corrupt politician's the World over! Does the truth interest you? Grab hold of your Bible, if you got one, Yesus said; I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life.....,
      As soon Yesus uttered these Words, Truth became a Person, so, if truth realy interest you, you will have to come to Yesus, for In Him you sure to find 'Him'! For it is no longer an 'it'!

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +1

      @@lesliesepssy9222 Did you know there is no contemporaneous evidence whatsoever of the existence of the biblical Jesus?
      And before you come back with the usual party line, please note "contemporaneous", "evidence" and "biblical Jesus”.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад

      Bollocks.

    • @patrickkelly7612
      @patrickkelly7612 2 года назад

      @@lesliesepssy9222
      How come Jesus knew nothing about micro-organisms, and advised against hand-washing because Man could not be defiled by way of his mouth?

    • @drstrangelove4998
      @drstrangelove4998 2 года назад +1

      Absolutely, if we reduce C02 to 150 ppm plants die and all life on earth.

  • @RogueBrit
    @RogueBrit 4 года назад +13

    Even Elon musk admitted that Co2 levels were too low

    • @rogeronslow1498
      @rogeronslow1498 4 года назад

      Who cares?

    • @ummdustry5718
      @ummdustry5718 3 года назад +1

      Elon Musk is literally offering millions of dollars for carbon capture technology.

  • @gerhardjansevanrensburg3230
    @gerhardjansevanrensburg3230 Год назад +4

    What a lovely man! And a gentleman with knowledge, and without an agenda of some sort. Thank you. Lets stop the fearmongering. it is going to be good if we stop believing the politicians.

  • @antoninhanzlik8092
    @antoninhanzlik8092 4 месяца назад

    Moc děkuji pane profesore za Váš názor. Je otázka jak moc člověk klima ovlivňuje a především jakou svou činností nejvíce.

  • @108Marycelestial
    @108Marycelestial 4 года назад +16

    In the Jurassic times they had CO2 at around 2000ppm, I say bring back the Jurassic times so we can enjoy some dinosaur steak.

    • @thepope2412
      @thepope2412 4 года назад +1

      And during one of the ice ages, co2 levels were calculated to be at 4000ppm.

    • @Guitarman7133
      @Guitarman7133 4 года назад

      idiot. NO SUCH THING AS CAVEMAN DAYS.

    • @jamesdurpington8619
      @jamesdurpington8619 4 года назад +1

      @@Guitarman7133 Easy there Bible Thumper, you're making us other Christians look bad with your scientific illiteracy.

    • @bademoxy
      @bademoxy 4 года назад +1

      what would be even better is a bunch of antigun demonstrators getting eaten by a T Rex.

    • @williamgeorge1028
      @williamgeorge1028 4 года назад

      @@thepope2412 If your going to pay for a new bible at least try good info, during Jurassic era over 7000 PPM with a temperature around 21 cel, I'll take a lush green jungle any day over a concrete jungle full of bicycle humping climate changed humanoids

  • @vonshango6311
    @vonshango6311 5 лет назад +18

    7:15 you say we can one day gene splice trees to absorb excess amounts of carbon in environment if it ever gets too high 100+ years from now if needed.
    10:00 the models are not good predictors of climate due to real world complexity, you cant model everything ex sun spot activity and solar cycles storms and cosmic rays/radiation. 14:25 you cant take water vapor out of the equation.
    15:15 co2 is so beneficial in so many ways, it would be insane to reduce it. 17:30 computer models are good to predict up to 5 days out, not more.
    18:40 if we keep burning oil and coal it'll do us good, the earth will get greener as a result.
    19:45 this mood of doom and gloom is only in the western academics and media, not most of world and the general public has a lot more common sense.
    21:08 manmade climate change is real, but marginal and on the whole beneficial, good, sustainable, not dramatic or detrimental.

    • @shaynefowley5689
      @shaynefowley5689 4 года назад +1

      vonshango good highlights. Need to know how to spell the Israeli scientist studying solar cycles.

  • @gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192
    @gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192 3 года назад

    During my one year apprenticeship on the family farm in the African Rift Valley south of Lake Manyara, Tanzania, year spanning 59/60, my father brought me the rainfall records from the weather station since late 1880s, and plotting the figures on a graph, it became obvious that there were peaks every +/- 11 years. Many years later, I read that the sun's activity also had 11 year cycles.
    Now living in the mountains bordering the part of the Po Valley, Northern Italy, we have noticed a substantial change in the tree cover on the slopes facing the valley, and. during summer we no longer see spaces between the trees, and the foliage is abundant and healthy green, not seen years before. As a Civil Engineer I was always interested in Climatology for all it's effects on the environment, so I am very happy to hear the views of Freeman Dyson

  • @kazana03
    @kazana03 Год назад +5

    Lots of wisdom in this gentleman. Much respect for him.

  • @411American
    @411American 4 года назад +11

    Making the world greener " Get a real job instead of a CON job and earn it rather than stealing from fear"

  • @Paul-gz5dp
    @Paul-gz5dp 4 года назад +11

    More CO2 means that plants will grow and other such things that are beneficial. Climate change has been going on since this planet was created, and the level of the sea is many hundreds of feet higher than it was 9,000 years ago. The amount of effect that man has had is small compared to the effects from the sun. We have effected the sea levels by only a few inches so far.
    I think that it is interesting that the CO2 in the atmosphere lags the increase of temperature in the atmosphere. As it has been shown for the last 350,000 years.

  • @ByDesign333
    @ByDesign333 Год назад +3

    He has the mark of a true scientist: his non dogmatic, patient and multifaceted, outside-the-box approach...impervious to the political/pop consensus....(climate change mania-religion).

  • @Rayblondie
    @Rayblondie 9 месяцев назад +3

    Plants desperately need CO2 so carbon must be green whatever they say. Let the plants speak not WEF and the Green Party.

  • @marinoceccotti9155
    @marinoceccotti9155 4 года назад +98

    A soothing rational voice in a world full of mass hysteria.

    • @fastcomputerrepairs
      @fastcomputerrepairs 4 года назад +5

      The madness of crowds. The madness of the Luceferian Climate Alarmists.

    • @JohanBrouwerPhotography
      @JohanBrouwerPhotography 4 года назад +3

      It’s more for the banking system follow the money who get’s the most out of the brainwashing the big money a lot of fear is the big engine, we do any thing for or children, they don’t have them most of the time only for succession, look for it. Al they want is power, money, land, Gold, Oil, Dollars.

    • @lesliesepssy9222
      @lesliesepssy9222 4 года назад +3

      What does prince Charles know about CO2? He knows a plenty about TAXES, if he pays any!

  • @Damianpsm
    @Damianpsm 4 года назад +38

    This man is so brilliant, he basically called the entire science community morons withou using Ad hominem. You can see him smirk a little twice maybe three times...

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +2

      Sadly, he is the moron because he didn't have a clue about what he was claiming to be true.

    • @susanwebster7584
      @susanwebster7584 4 года назад +11

      hahaha he is brilliant yet humble and polite too. A great scientist and a gentleman.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 4 года назад +1

      @@susanwebster7584 Really? So why is he telling so many lies? And why are you upvoting yourself. Again.

    • @trekpac2
      @trekpac2 Год назад +1

      He's a nice and clever old guy, but is smart enough to accept the depth of his ignorance.

    • @stuarthodgkinson848
      @stuarthodgkinson848 Год назад +5

      @@boffeycn you are so wong wong

  • @crustyoldfart
    @crustyoldfart Год назад +1

    I don't know whether or not Professor Dyson would agree, but after listening to his profound wisdom, I'm reminded of the words of the carol " Cease the noise ye men of strife, and hear the angels sing ! "

  • @blueodum
    @blueodum 2 года назад +2

    "I don't think any of these models can ever be predictive". This should be stamped on the forehead of every climate alarmist.