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

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  • čas přidán 8. 06. 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 Před 4 lety +968

    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 Před 4 lety +32

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

    • @roblovegreen
      @roblovegreen Před 4 lety +58

      The earth is self balancing.

    • @nabuk3
      @nabuk3 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +17

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

  • @barbaramaj1919
    @barbaramaj1919 Před 4 lety +24

    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"

  • @dpeters9897
    @dpeters9897 Před 4 lety +89

    “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 Před rokem +3

      my god is this a true statement!

    • @jennifergregory7461
      @jennifergregory7461 Před rokem +2

      People are weak. God bless.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

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

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Před rokem

      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

  • @marieljunggren8568
    @marieljunggren8568 Před rokem +51

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

  • @7munkee
    @7munkee Před 4 lety +15

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

  • @snakedike
    @snakedike Před 4 lety +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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem +19

      Or the politicians lie at the drop of a hat.

    • @aaronfreeman5264
      @aaronfreeman5264 Před rokem

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

    • @RandyB199
      @RandyB199 Před rokem +11

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

    • @melvinrexwinkle1510
      @melvinrexwinkle1510 Před rokem

      the leftists politicians are better con artists

  • @sirrathersplendid4825
    @sirrathersplendid4825 Před rokem +266

    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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +7

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

    • @showme360
      @showme360 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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.

  • @MJ-qg1tk
    @MJ-qg1tk Před rokem +39

    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.

    • @Only-one-life-68
      @Only-one-life-68 Před 20 dny

      Sharing this video is sooo important..
      I’ve shared many times,to friends and colleagues,that have also forwarded it on..
      My opinion is that a lot more people have watched this video than what is stated..
      God bless Mr Freedom

  • @sandfly
    @sandfly Před 4 lety +139

    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 Před rokem +14

      Yep, real science is never "settled".

    • @freebird1477
      @freebird1477 Před rokem +4

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

    • @TheFlyingBrain.
      @TheFlyingBrain. Před 7 dny

      Foolish.

  • @brianwatts9947
    @brianwatts9947 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem +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.

  • @tedbaxter5234
    @tedbaxter5234 Před 4 lety +13

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

  • @lorendjones
    @lorendjones Před rokem +214

    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 Před rokem +6

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

    • @JackFou
      @JackFou Před rokem

      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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      @@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 Před rokem

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

  • @michaelblair6234
    @michaelblair6234 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @davidollikkala1572
    @davidollikkala1572 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +10

      Climate opportunists greed for money

    • @GregoryJByrne
      @GregoryJByrne Před 4 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +1

      What a great comment👍👍

    • @blucheer8743
      @blucheer8743 Před rokem +1

      Spot on!

  • @ElCampiador
    @ElCampiador Před rokem +28

    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 Před 8 měsíci

      what pandering to a preselected conclusion?

  • @Sapwolf
    @Sapwolf Před rokem +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 Před rokem +3

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

  • @IIIRotor
    @IIIRotor Před 4 lety +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 Před rokem +12

      That's what my 89 years tell me to.

    • @IIIRotor
      @IIIRotor Před rokem +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 Před 9 měsíci

      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.

  • @johnshilling2221
    @johnshilling2221 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety

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

    • @ElCampiador
      @ElCampiador Před rokem

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

    • @johncoughtrey8383
      @johncoughtrey8383 Před rokem +3

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

    • @johnbatson8779
      @johnbatson8779 Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @elizabethannegrey6285
    @elizabethannegrey6285 Před rokem +12

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

  • @lsequeira3139
    @lsequeira3139 Před rokem +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.

  • @johnedwards785
    @johnedwards785 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +12

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

    • @marcpadilla1094
      @marcpadilla1094 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @charliesmith3561
      @charliesmith3561 Před 4 lety +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

  • @niallcurran7894
    @niallcurran7894 Před 4 lety +235

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

    • @iseriver3982
      @iseriver3982 Před rokem +1

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

    • @thedave7760
      @thedave7760 Před rokem +1

      Religion requires that you neve dissent from the current dogma.

    • @johnathanmagliari8461
      @johnathanmagliari8461 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @kandipoopipants1794
    @kandipoopipants1794 Před rokem +11

    This needs to go viral again. Please!

  • @Quadrant14
    @Quadrant14 Před 4 lety +12

    R.I.P Freeman Dyson a giant of Science

  • @thegeneralist7527
    @thegeneralist7527 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +17

      CZcams 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 Před 4 lety +5

      Idk I'm looking at 34,686 views

    • @thegeneralist7527
      @thegeneralist7527 Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @paularthur5563
      @paularthur5563 Před 4 lety +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  Před 3 lety +16

      CZcams is blocking this interview

  • @kbkesq
    @kbkesq Před 4 lety +94

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

    • @KabelkowyJoe
      @KabelkowyJoe Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +9

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

    • @beaugunn2632
      @beaugunn2632 Před 4 lety +9

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

    • @KabelkowyJoe
      @KabelkowyJoe Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @doyourbest7655
    @doyourbest7655 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +2

      Smart

    • @durandalgmx7633
      @durandalgmx7633 Před rokem +3

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

    • @_SimpleSam
      @_SimpleSam Před rokem

      @@durandalgmx7633 People have gas dryers :D

    • @melvinrexwinkle1510
      @melvinrexwinkle1510 Před rokem +1

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

    • @_SimpleSam
      @_SimpleSam Před rokem

      @@melvinrexwinkle1510 Gas dryers are better, lmfao

  • @petonovy
    @petonovy Před rokem +45

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

  • @Jagsrcool
    @Jagsrcool Před 5 lety +198

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

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @jwadaow
      @jwadaow Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety

      @@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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @samslick9000
    @samslick9000 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety

      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 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @Epsilonsama
    @Epsilonsama Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

      is he a Nobel prize winner

    • @MrMawnster
      @MrMawnster Před rokem

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

    • @peterdelmonte9832
      @peterdelmonte9832 Před 11 měsíci

      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 Před 8 měsíci

      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

  • @brianrajala7671
    @brianrajala7671 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +2

      Dr Freeman Dyson that should be!

    • @arturoeugster7228
      @arturoeugster7228 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +3

      Add Dr Otto Weiss to the group above

    • @jeffpizzuli9680
      @jeffpizzuli9680 Před rokem +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 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @Ctajm
    @Ctajm Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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. CZcams is an amazing place. Best wishes for a very long, sharp and healthy life!

    • @suziesmith2142
      @suziesmith2142 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

      No, he is bull shitting and lying.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +1

      @@lesliesepssy9222 Which god was that?

  • @williambaikie5739
    @williambaikie5739 Před 5 lety +414

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

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann Před 5 lety +6

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

    • @williambaikie5739
      @williambaikie5739 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +2

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

    • @rogerdiogo6893
      @rogerdiogo6893 Před 5 lety +8

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

  • @williamm8069
    @williamm8069 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

      You are correct sir.

    • @kazzana9013
      @kazzana9013 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      @@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 Před rokem

      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 -

  • @kayeallen2742
    @kayeallen2742 Před rokem +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.

  • @superbad1585
    @superbad1585 Před 4 lety +24

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

  • @realityisreal3928
    @realityisreal3928 Před 5 lety +226

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

    • @mattsmith87
      @mattsmith87 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @stucrossland3719
      @stucrossland3719 Před rokem +1

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

    • @DSBeholder
      @DSBeholder Před rokem +2

      A true expert....

    • @kazzana9013
      @kazzana9013 Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @davidallen2077
    @davidallen2077 Před 4 lety +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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

      And who are u to question him . another lieing liberal

    • @chrisp3913
      @chrisp3913 Před rokem +2

      @@joeisawesome540 good analogy except it isn’t

    • @joeisawesome540
      @joeisawesome540 Před rokem

      @@chrisp3913 explain

    • @nitrousinject
      @nitrousinject Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @mr.t5262
    @mr.t5262 Před rokem +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...👏

  • @micc6462
    @micc6462 Před 4 lety +168

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

    • @joshward7896
      @joshward7896 Před 4 lety +3

      Which lunatics?

    • @micc6462
      @micc6462 Před 4 lety +1

      @@joshward7896 the mad ones

    • @grantsmith6052
      @grantsmith6052 Před 4 lety

      @@joshward7896 Michael Bloomberg

    • @pablowall
      @pablowall Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @raisingconsciousness777
    @raisingconsciousness777 Před 4 lety +29

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

  • @ThisBloke760
    @ThisBloke760 Před rokem +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

  • @kennethward4985
    @kennethward4985 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před 10 měsíci +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

  • @RandyFelts2121
    @RandyFelts2121 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @lf4459
    @lf4459 Před 4 lety +315

    I celebrate CO2 , the most lifegiving mollecule ever !

    • @pcproffy
      @pcproffy Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +7

      You're a fucking idiot Ludovic

    • @Leonardo555ZZZ
      @Leonardo555ZZZ Před 4 lety +27

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

    • @brett22bt
      @brett22bt Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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?

  • @pluijm2
    @pluijm2 Před 2 lety +33

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

    • @BRM101
      @BRM101 Před rokem +2

      Sure does and the train just keeps getting longer

    • @JamieZero7
      @JamieZero7 Před rokem +1

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

    • @welderlogic1806
      @welderlogic1806 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

      @@welderlogic1806 Exactly right.

  • @theodorelukasz912
    @theodorelukasz912 Před rokem +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?

  • @janewhitington9461
    @janewhitington9461 Před 4 lety +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 Před rokem +3

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

  • @9realitycheck9
    @9realitycheck9 Před 4 lety +21

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

  • @johngrear6506
    @johngrear6506 Před rokem +10

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

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Před rokem

      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.

  • @curtisk2286
    @curtisk2286 Před rokem +2

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

  • @lbaker3602001
    @lbaker3602001 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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..

  • @deepsouthinception
    @deepsouthinception Před 4 lety +138

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

    • @ThomasLee123
      @ThomasLee123 Před rokem +2

      Truth!

    • @boilingfrog783
      @boilingfrog783 Před rokem

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

    • @DSBeholder
      @DSBeholder Před rokem

      Same here

    • @roldangonzalez7360
      @roldangonzalez7360 Před rokem

      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🙏🏻

  • @VeronicaMist
    @VeronicaMist Před rokem +7

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

  • @gavincutler8889
    @gavincutler8889 Před 10 měsíci

    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.

  • @bobjackson4720
    @bobjackson4720 Před 5 lety +516

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

    • @michaelmcintyre9179
      @michaelmcintyre9179 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +3

      He said practical .

    • @russellfield5010
      @russellfield5010 Před 4 lety +28

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

    • @mattsmith87
      @mattsmith87 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +10

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

  • @mickbrenton
    @mickbrenton Před 4 lety +193

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

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +5

      Cocaine.

    • @daos3300
      @daos3300 Před 4 lety +6

      that's called intelligence.

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @mickbrenton
      @mickbrenton Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @caeserromero3013
    @caeserromero3013 Před rokem +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

  • @stevendellow9505
    @stevendellow9505 Před rokem +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.

  • @nbrown5907
    @nbrown5907 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @susancronk8512
    @susancronk8512 Před 4 lety +59

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

    • @dropbearjd8986
      @dropbearjd8986 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +2

      @@dropbearjd8986 Agreed. ;-)

    • @pjmclach
      @pjmclach Před 4 lety +1

      we dont

  • @StevenRueschDE
    @StevenRueschDE Před rokem +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 .

  • @dosomething3
    @dosomething3 Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @superapex2128
    @superapex2128 Před 4 lety +17

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

  • @kahtel1873
    @kahtel1873 Před 4 lety +147

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

    • @hosnimubarak8869
      @hosnimubarak8869 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +10

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

    • @hosnimubarak8869
      @hosnimubarak8869 Před 4 lety +2

      @@alwoo5645
      Truth hurts eh.

    • @alwoo5645
      @alwoo5645 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @lukewiseman9946
    @lukewiseman9946 Před rokem +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.

  • @JonathanBaggaley
    @JonathanBaggaley Před rokem +2

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

  • @ivantuma7969
    @ivantuma7969 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety

      Give me some please.
      Hello from Australia.

  • @melvinhunt6976
    @melvinhunt6976 Před 5 lety +100

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

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann Před 5 lety +6

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

    • @melvinhunt6976
      @melvinhunt6976 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

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

  • @kaybee5150
    @kaybee5150 Před rokem +3

    What a man. It's a shame there isn't more men like him, oh! wait a minute, there are. But they will get cancelled and lose their jobs.

  • @dosomething3
    @dosomething3 Před 2 lety +1

    21:00”Because I am retired I have no fear of losing my job”

  • @dougfinn
    @dougfinn Před 4 lety +82

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

  • @thebluedan
    @thebluedan Před 4 lety +13

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

    • @pablorages1241
      @pablorages1241 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @markmisselhorn2214
    @markmisselhorn2214 Před rokem +14

    Thanks. Great interview. Climate alarmism is hugely harmful.

  • @antoninhanzlik8092
    @antoninhanzlik8092 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @zlatkovuckovic6443
    @zlatkovuckovic6443 Před 4 lety +10

    Constructive dialogue, now that’s refreshing.

  • @dickfitswell3437
    @dickfitswell3437 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +2

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

    • @davem5308
      @davem5308 Před 4 lety

      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 Před 4 lety

      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 Před 4 lety

      @@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 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @gianfrancobenetti-longhini8192

    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

  • @OxAO
    @OxAO Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +1

      Who sadly lost the plot.

  • @jeffreyluciana8711
    @jeffreyluciana8711 Před 4 lety +64

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

    • @lesliesepssy9222
      @lesliesepssy9222 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety

      Bollocks.

    • @patrickkelly7612
      @patrickkelly7612 Před 2 lety

      @@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 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @gareth5000
    @gareth5000 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @darkmanx2825
      @darkmanx2825 Před rokem +6

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

    • @gingercox6468
      @gingercox6468 Před rokem +11

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

    • @gareth5000
      @gareth5000 Před rokem +3

      I agree, it’s terrifying!

    • @JennyBrie2006
      @JennyBrie2006 Před rokem +1

      @@gingercox6468 I agree

  • @davidhilderman
    @davidhilderman Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety

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

  • @kazana03
    @kazana03 Před rokem +5

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

  • @RussW185
    @RussW185 Před 5 lety +102

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

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety

      From guys that know nothing about the subject?

    • @normanstewart9857
      @normanstewart9857 Před 4 lety +7

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

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann Před 4 lety +3

      @@normanstewart9857 ...rather than corporate propaganda.

    • @bipolatelly9806
      @bipolatelly9806 Před 4 lety +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".

  • @marinoceccotti9155
    @marinoceccotti9155 Před 4 lety +98

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

    • @fastcomputerrepairs
      @fastcomputerrepairs Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @JohanBrouwerPhotography
      @JohanBrouwerPhotography Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @russianbot1420
    @russianbot1420 Před rokem +7

    A most excellent interview, thank you for bringing it to us.

  • @ahuramazda32
    @ahuramazda32 Před 11 měsíci +2

    If one has ever had a green house and used a co2 generator, it all makes sense

  • @motorcop505
    @motorcop505 Před 4 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +4

      We have evolved to live in the tropics not on ice

    • @MrDorbel
      @MrDorbel Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +4

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

  • @Damianpsm
    @Damianpsm Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @susanwebster7584
      @susanwebster7584 Před 4 lety +11

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

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @trekpac2
      @trekpac2 Před rokem +1

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

    • @stuarthodgkinson848
      @stuarthodgkinson848 Před rokem +5

      @@boffeycn you are so wong wong

  • @MottiShneor
    @MottiShneor Před rokem +1

    I read (and heard from some physicists) that CO2 levels FOLLOW temperature rising, not CAUSING it, and in a good 100 years shift!

  • @TommyTheWalker
    @TommyTheWalker Před rokem +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

  • @RogueBrit
    @RogueBrit Před 5 lety +13

    Even Elon musk admitted that Co2 levels were too low

    • @rogeronslow1498
      @rogeronslow1498 Před 4 lety

      Who cares?

    • @ummdustry5718
      @ummdustry5718 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @raderator
    @raderator Před 5 lety +97

    400ppm is still too low. Plants would like it 4x higher. That would bring it back to the norm for the late phanerozoic.

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann Před 5 lety +3

      You need to apologise and withdraw your comments

    • @lacossanostra
      @lacossanostra Před 5 lety +11

      correct that's why greenhouses in the Netherlands that produces flowers and food like bell peppers ect are heating up their greenhouses with gas and capture the Co2 that comes from the exhaust and pump it directly into the greenhouses up to 1200 ppm Co2 so the food and flowers grow faster co2 is not a pollutant and its only is 1 % of all the gasses in out atmos

    • @andrew300169
      @andrew300169 Před 5 lety +3

      lacossa nostra perhaps we could try something that doesn’t melt glaciers and the poles, increased plant growth will have limited benefit whilst we are still concreting the planet and chopping down forests

    • @tincanbanditgunsmithing5720
      @tincanbanditgunsmithing5720 Před 5 lety +15

      @@andrew300169 Why? The ice is going to melt eventually, the current ice age will end eventually and the Earth will return to a warm state, with our without humans. What humans are doing is putting a VERY small amount of the CO2 trapped in fossil fuels back in to the atmosphere where it CAME FROM. In fact the amount of CO2 increase is most likely due to the Oceans warming and releasing stores of CO2 and the cause of the current ocean warming has nothing to do with modern humans, as it takes centuries to warm the oceans.

    • @andrew300169
      @andrew300169 Před 5 lety +4

      Tincanbandit Gunsmithing all the current evidence is that it is human induced climate change, it matters because unlike human induced climate change which has happened over 200 years or so, where as the natural outcome happens over several 100,000’s years allowing for adaption.
      Interesting that the climate deniers started with it’s not warming at all, it is warming but it’s not humans, it’s humans but we don’t know how much, now it’s the trees will deal with it, the trees will deal with it but need to be genetically engineered, eventually the US will get it’s not some weird left wing plot by some New world order...

  • @Skans-Gustav
    @Skans-Gustav Před rokem +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?

  • @gerhardjansevanrensburg3230

    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.

  • @oksam7667
    @oksam7667 Před 4 lety +57

    “CO2 is so beneficial it would be crazy to reduce it”

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +2

      correct if CO2 were still at the level all extant avian and terrestrial species evolved at, i,e, when CO2 was around 200 ppm. But then with the onset of the Industrial Revolution it started to rise, to 295 ppm a hundred years ago to 415 ppm today, so we evolved at 200 ppm, not 415 ppm.

    • @jamesdurpington8619
      @jamesdurpington8619 Před 4 lety

      @@boffeycn Lol

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn Před 4 lety +1

      @@jamesdurpington8619 Yes, the OP was a joke.

    • @juliamarple3202
      @juliamarple3202 Před 4 lety +1

      100%

    • @paymydues
      @paymydues Před 4 lety

      The Rothchilds et al think the 'useless eaters' (us) need culling pure and simple. They will do anything to achieve this by stealth.

  • @billquillin1952
    @billquillin1952 Před 4 lety +14

    APPLAUSE.
    Thank you for this interview! I have followed the Professor for decades !

  • @Hoax-bp5pq
    @Hoax-bp5pq Před rokem +3

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

  • @windswepttwigg
    @windswepttwigg Před rokem +8

    My hero. Carbon dioxide is tree food, the more carbon the more the trees will flourish, this goes for all plant life. 👍