A global warming skeptic who's a lot smarter than Al Gore

NJ.com
"Ever since the 1980s one of my favorite authors in the realm of science has been Freeman Dyson. ....... The Princeton physicist has written books on a wide range of topic, from the potential perils of nuclear weapons to discoveries in the human genome. .....Here's a great magazine piece that gives an in-depth look at Dyson and how he views the problem. An excerpt: “The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models,” Dyson was saying. “There's a great magazine piece that gives an in-depth look at Dyson and how he views the problem. An excerpt: “The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models,” Dyson was saying. “They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.” Dyson speaks in calm, clear tones that carry simultaneous evidence of his English childhood, the move to the United States after completing his university studies at Cambridge and more than 50 years of marriage to the German-born Imme, but his opinions can be barbed, especially when a conversation turns to climate change. Climate models, he says, take into account atmospheric motion and water levels but have no feeling for the chemistry and biology of sky, soil and trees. “The biologists have essentially been pushed aside,” he continues. “Al Gore’s just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.” (h/t Climate Depot)