Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of “most brilliant physicist on the planet.” Dyson has filled it. So when the global-warming movement came along, a lot of people wondered why he didn’t come along with it. The reason he’s a skeptic is simple, the 89-year-old Dyson said when I phoned him. “I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic,” Dyson said. --Paul Mulshine, The Star Ledger, 4 April 2013
So why does the public hear only one side of this debate? Because the media do an awful job of reporting it. “They’re absolutely lousy,” Freeman Dyson said of American journalists. “That’s true also in Europe. I don’t know why they’ve been brainwashed.” I know why: They’re lazy. Instead of digging into the details, most journalists are content to repeat that mantra about “consensus” among climate scientists. --Paul Mulshine, The Star Ledger, 4 April 2013">The Star Ledger, 4 April 2013
Unlike most political movements, the environmentalists had successfully managed to put their claims so far off into the future that it would take decades to test them against reality. But guess what? The decades are finally here. We’re reaching the point where climate predictions have been around long enough to allow for significant comparison against the actual data, and we are now able to say definitively that the predictions were horribly exaggerated. --Real Clear Politics, 4 April 2013
The Culture, Media and Sport committee chairman John Whittingdale, said the Government and the BBC should discuss an alternative to the licence fee. John Whittingdale is a fellow Mensa member and was interviewed for a three page article in the April edition of the Mensa magazine. It is not yet clear about what future action is due as regards the 28 Gate scandal at the BBC, but I think that the May edition of the Mensa magazine and future Space Special interest group newsletters and emails from Mensa members may shed light at what seems to be an unprecedented attack from Mensa members upon the BBC as regards its censorship of science, scientists and scientific debate about Climate Change. --Richard Pinder, Biased BBC, April 2013
A model based on global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 has caused a research team to predict the opposite of what Doomsday Prophets of the 1960s and beyond insisted would happen – the number of people on Earth will stabilize around the middle of the century and perhaps even start to decline. The results coincide with the United Nation’s downward estimates, which claim that by 2100 Earth’s population will be 6.2 billion, if low fertility and birth rate continues on its current path, below the 7 billion we are at now. --Science 2.0, 5 April 2013
For nearly 20 years, any company interested in green energy has known exactly where the global epicentre of renewable power is located: Europe. But, as the third anniversary of the Greek bailout nears, a shift is afoot on the continent that gave the world its biggest carbon market, its most effective green electricity subsidies, and its first offshore wind farms. It is too early to call it a U-turn, let alone a permanent reversal. But jitters are clearly growing about the cost of tackling climate change and building a green electricity infrastructure in the world’s oldest industrial powers. --Pilita Clark, Financial Times, 8 April 2013
