[vwat]

Freeman was a climate change denier. They don’t mention that though.

Wow I was very surprised to find they do mention it in some capacity. Very unexpected for them. But my sentiment was correct because they say he “had some doubts” or something like that. Which is as close to a lie as one could possibly get. And I did read it myself, I’m not responding to comments “correcting” me.

[freyr]

Actually, they do mention it: "Many of his views were penetrating, a few—like his insistence that fears about rising CO2 levels were overblown—more than a little eccentric."

[ezequiel-garzon]

Indeed, and right after the author adds, To the end, he was a mental adventurer, not so much iconoclastic as intellectually fearless and relentlessly curious. Although I feel we should probably err on the side of caution with something like climate change, a mind like Dyson's will make me healthily slow down and revise my own beliefs, and not nullify him as a scientist or as a responsible citizen. I highly recommend this lengthy but wonderful article [1], which dives into the core of the issue. A relevant quote:

It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models.

[1] https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-heretical-th...

[sgillen]

He didn’t deny it he thought it wasn’t such a big deal and might even have some positive effects.

[jolux]

That's denialism. It's a big deal and there's consensus about that among climate scientists.