Awesome interview. I hope I am as lucid as Dyson when I am his age. Plus to get to be his age.
Freeman Dyson seems to be a ‘climate skeptic’ as well. Heheh.
Perhaps he thinks there is no such thing as climate.
We’re you always this ignorant?
Were you always this excrement or did your mind go to shit fairly recently?
Actually, Guest, I think you’re indulging in some projection here. Dyson, like many CAGW sceptics, is skeptical mainly of only the catastrophic part of that acronym. Yes, CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it has been rising for centuries, partly due to human activity, but the crucial fumble in the IPCC scenario is in the climate sensitivity term. All the observational evidence indicates that it is less than 1 Kelvin per CO2 doubling, and the only way to get major warming in the climate models is to assume an unrealistically high value that ignores the real world data. You may be surprised to find competent well informed people disagreeing with you, rather then the stereotypes you expect.
Doug, you’re wasting your time. The troll from Madison doesn’t even have the intellectual capacity to understand what you’re saying.
Sadly, it’s entirely possible that the creature is faculty.
I generally find those folks who hate academics like you do generally didn’t do that well in college. Its their way to justify their poor performance in school.
Funny thing, I did well enough to get two bachelors degrees in engineering from one of the top schools in the country, including many graduate courses.
I’ve found that such people were busy studying physics, engineering, or molecular biology and wondering why the professors of transnormative Central American lesbian dance studies were the ones making all the noise about being an academic.
You don’t need a high GPA to get a bachelors degree, so its not that much of an indication of academic accomplishment.
High GPAs are highly overrated, but it’s monumentally stupid to think that my concerns about academia are a result of my GPA. And for what it’s worth, I scored in the 99th percentile on my GRE.
Funny thing. If you bother to read the article you would see that all that training money is going to programs like diesel mechanics, mill wrights, instrumentation. You know, practical vocational skills needed by the local gold mines that pay the government so much in taxes. And it was the big mining firms which pushed for it because, as a result of cuts made so UNLV would have more money, the school didn’t have the funding needed for the instructors and equipment to expand the programs.
Also you seen to confuse GBC with UNLV, two very different schools. But then that shows you level of knowledge about academics, and Nevada 🙂
That is correct. The GOP is too liberal for you, which is why you voted twice against President Reagan.
Oh, I know the difference between UNLV and GBC, one is capable of hiring high quality academics and the other will employ just about anyone willing to live in Central Nevada.
“I generally find those folks who hate academics like you do generally didn’t do that well in college. ”
Does that become a self fulfilling prophecy when students dare express an opinion contrary to your own in class?
“All the observational evidence indicates that it is less than 1 Kelvin per CO2 doubling,”
Which is just a debate about how long the problem takes to occur.
What’s your acceptable global atmospheric CO2 level then? 600 PPM 800 PPM
But there is no rational debate when you have people like Simberg calling everyone names.
However as long as he is representative of the GOP, they have no future.
I’m not “representative of the GOP,” you moron. I’ve never even been a member.
Were you always a douch?
Of course he was. The best part of him ran down his mother’s leg.
I don’t think he has ever commented here with something to say other than an insult. I don’t mind the insults but why not actually say something while you are at it?
I sense someone has a social problem.
Well, yeah, he is a bit uncomfortable with people. There’s an old joke about how you can tell an extroverted engineer- he talks to your shoes instead of his own.
I had the privilege of seeing Dyson give a series of lectures about 25 years ago; he was spellbinding. It was (and still is) amazing that someone could speak meaningfully on such a diverse range of topics. What a wonderful life he has had, being right in the thick of so many discoveries.
His comments on global warming show that he has not lost his sense of humility. He clearly doesn’t think highly of scientists who style themselves as keepers of the truth.
I was fortunate enough to see him last year at Starship Century at UCSD, and even have him sign his article in the proceedings of it. He is indeed a great speaker and still has fresh ideas about the future.
I generally find those folks who hate academics like you do generally didn’t do that well in college. Its their way to justify their poor performance in school.
Wow, that’s an overgeneralization. I loved college. It was one of the best times of my life. What I didn’t like was the politics that enveloped the entire system in approximately 1990, which has poisoned academia ever since.
Let’s turn your absurd overgeneralization around:
I often find those who cannot take any criticism of academia have never worked a real job in their life.
Awesome interview. I hope I am as lucid as Dyson when I am his age. Plus to get to be his age.
Freeman Dyson seems to be a ‘climate skeptic’ as well. Heheh.
Perhaps he thinks there is no such thing as climate.
We’re you always this ignorant?
Were you always this excrement or did your mind go to shit fairly recently?
Actually, Guest, I think you’re indulging in some projection here. Dyson, like many CAGW sceptics, is skeptical mainly of only the catastrophic part of that acronym. Yes, CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it has been rising for centuries, partly due to human activity, but the crucial fumble in the IPCC scenario is in the climate sensitivity term. All the observational evidence indicates that it is less than 1 Kelvin per CO2 doubling, and the only way to get major warming in the climate models is to assume an unrealistically high value that ignores the real world data. You may be surprised to find competent well informed people disagreeing with you, rather then the stereotypes you expect.
Doug, you’re wasting your time. The troll from Madison doesn’t even have the intellectual capacity to understand what you’re saying.
Sadly, it’s entirely possible that the creature is faculty.
I generally find those folks who hate academics like you do generally didn’t do that well in college. Its their way to justify their poor performance in school.
Funny thing, I did well enough to get two bachelors degrees in engineering from one of the top schools in the country, including many graduate courses.
I’ve found that such people were busy studying physics, engineering, or molecular biology and wondering why the professors of transnormative Central American lesbian dance studies were the ones making all the noise about being an academic.
I don’t know about Rand, I’m just tired of subsidizing academics, who use the money as graft.
You don’t need a high GPA to get a bachelors degree, so its not that much of an indication of academic accomplishment.
High GPAs are highly overrated, but it’s monumentally stupid to think that my concerns about academia are a result of my GPA. And for what it’s worth, I scored in the 99th percentile on my GRE.
Funny thing. If you bother to read the article you would see that all that training money is going to programs like diesel mechanics, mill wrights, instrumentation. You know, practical vocational skills needed by the local gold mines that pay the government so much in taxes. And it was the big mining firms which pushed for it because, as a result of cuts made so UNLV would have more money, the school didn’t have the funding needed for the instructors and equipment to expand the programs.
Also you seen to confuse GBC with UNLV, two very different schools. But then that shows you level of knowledge about academics, and Nevada 🙂
That is correct. The GOP is too liberal for you, which is why you voted twice against President Reagan.
Oh, I know the difference between UNLV and GBC, one is capable of hiring high quality academics and the other will employ just about anyone willing to live in Central Nevada.
“I generally find those folks who hate academics like you do generally didn’t do that well in college. ”
Does that become a self fulfilling prophecy when students dare express an opinion contrary to your own in class?
“All the observational evidence indicates that it is less than 1 Kelvin per CO2 doubling,”
Which is just a debate about how long the problem takes to occur.
What’s your acceptable global atmospheric CO2 level then? 600 PPM 800 PPM
But there is no rational debate when you have people like Simberg calling everyone names.
However as long as he is representative of the GOP, they have no future.
I’m not “representative of the GOP,” you moron. I’ve never even been a member.
Were you always a douch?
Of course he was. The best part of him ran down his mother’s leg.
I don’t think he has ever commented here with something to say other than an insult. I don’t mind the insults but why not actually say something while you are at it?
I sense someone has a social problem.
Well, yeah, he is a bit uncomfortable with people. There’s an old joke about how you can tell an extroverted engineer- he talks to your shoes instead of his own.
I had the privilege of seeing Dyson give a series of lectures about 25 years ago; he was spellbinding. It was (and still is) amazing that someone could speak meaningfully on such a diverse range of topics. What a wonderful life he has had, being right in the thick of so many discoveries.
His comments on global warming show that he has not lost his sense of humility. He clearly doesn’t think highly of scientists who style themselves as keepers of the truth.
I was fortunate enough to see him last year at Starship Century at UCSD, and even have him sign his article in the proceedings of it. He is indeed a great speaker and still has fresh ideas about the future.
I generally find those folks who hate academics like you do generally didn’t do that well in college. Its their way to justify their poor performance in school.
Wow, that’s an overgeneralization. I loved college. It was one of the best times of my life. What I didn’t like was the politics that enveloped the entire system in approximately 1990, which has poisoned academia ever since.
Let’s turn your absurd overgeneralization around:
I often find those who cannot take any criticism of academia have never worked a real job in their life.