August 18, 2007
A RESPONSE TO FREEMAN DYSON'S "HERETICAL THOUGHTS"
Alun Anderson at Edge.org:
Knowing that Arctic climate models are imperfect, it would be reassuring for me, if not for the scientists, to be able to write that scientists keep making grim predictions that just that don't come true. If that were so, we could follow Dyson's line that the models aren't so good and "the fuss is exaggerated". Scarily, the truth is the other way around. The ice is melting faster than the grimmest of the scientist's predictions, and the predictions keep getting grimmer. Now we are talking about an Arctic free of ice in summer by 2040. That's a lot of melting given that, in the long, dark winter the ice covers an area greater than that of the entire United States.
More here.
Posted by Abbas Raza at 03:18 PM | Permalink
Comments
That looks like you, Abbas! Is it?
Posted by: Akbi | Aug 18, 2007 7:28:40 PM
It is my secret identity: Alun Anderson. I have been secretly editing the American edition of Nature and also New Scientist for years. Now you know!
Posted by: Abbas Raza | Aug 18, 2007 7:47:14 PM
You know, the more I think about that crap Dyson wrote, the more of a poser he seems to be.
Posted by: beajerry | Aug 19, 2007 5:15:22 AM
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