Is Carbon Dioxide Making The World Greener? (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies)

[@johnnygeneric161]

I'm a chemical engineer with 40 years experience. I've been saying that more CO2 is GOOD!! I'm glad to see others get on my bandwagon.

[@raisethecolours]

It's common knowledge most people learn in middle school and elementary.... people just care about the new hottness

[@roblovegreen]

The earth is self balancing.

[@nabuk3]

@keenan kovacs : You were doing OK until the very end. Actually, the overall effect of more CO2 and in general more rainfall has been an increase in overall vegetation. Satellite studies show that there is more total vegetation on Earth now than decades ago, despite all the clear-cutting and human-set fires, and despite the baseless predictions of decreasing vegetation and growing deserts.

[@douglaslyell1]

keenan kovacs yes probably true and this is where chem trails creating chem fog can manipulate rainfall with the use of Doppler radars and maybe 5g .. also increase in electrical storms due to the aluminium nanoparticles and conductivity .. Australia is the current major target for weather control .. look look look into that rabbit hole and you may begin to see the BIG picture . Or maybe just follow sport or look at comic books as this may be more entertaining .. moral of the story is is that the majority are all as dumb as F@&K .

[@Master...deBater]

@keenan kovacs: BS...show me the empirical data!!! And debunked climate models are not empirical data!!!

[@frankpocius6196]

When I was a child I asked my father what we should do in preparation for the forecast of gloom and doom. His response was that it never comes true and there is always a new threat imagined every 10 or 12 years because the old threat never happenes. My children can’t believe that politicians would be so corrupt and use fear to distract and to control people. In my 76 years I have observed the failure of every prediction proving my father’s observations to be correct. One day, my children will no doubt reach the same conclusion.

[@brunosco]

Are you blind? So many climate-related issues are happening these days (typhoons, floods, droughts, extreme temps…). Not happening, really?!

[@timelsen2236]

He was associated with the Heritage foundation which has pushed PROJECT 2025!

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

Sadly, your father was wrong Frank. Man-made global warming and climate disruption is already causing hundreds of documented harmful effects to people, societies, other species, and ecosystems--and that's only one of four major ways that humans are pushing the whole web of life toward collapse. Global warming, climate disruption, global ice melt, global sea level rise, loss of biodiversity, and degradation/destruction of ecosystems are ALL happening as fast or faster than the majority of experts in those fields predicted back in the 1980s. From oceans to forests to higher prices and tamped-down incomes, modern civilization is steadily eroding the health of societies and ecosystems.

[@CrusaderSports250]

​@@timelsen2236are you talking about the posters father or the interviewee, and could you expand on project 2025 for those of us who are unaware of it, especially as its only a few weeks away, Thanking you in expectation.

[@snakedike]

There is nothing more refreshing than to hear one of the smartest people alive speak on a politically hot topic he has studied for almost 40years and say "We just don't know". Guess some politicians think they are a whole lot smarter.

[@stayinformed2913]

Most politicians, especially liberal Politicians aren't the smartest or most honest bulbs in the box. They will say anything they think people will believe.

[@robertbarnum7541]

Or the politicians lie at the drop of a hat.

[@aaronfreeman5264]

Anasognosia, Politicians are too stupid to know that they are stupid. If Carbon Dioxide is reduced, Agriculture takes a bit.

[@RandyB199]

It's abut their pocketbook. Not smarter, just sneaky.

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

the leftists politicians are better con artists

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Disgraceful how the media completely ignored FJD’s death. A towering giant among physicists with his hand in so many pies, and they basically ‘cancelled’ him because he wasn’t fully onboard the climate doomboat.

[@dougmoran13]

I think you’re right. And how sad is that? We’re doomed I’m afraid, unless the majority wakes up, gathers their guts & acts. Pronto!

[@truck6859]

We don't want to be on that doomboat either.

[@showme360]

Your on the doom boat whether you like it or not, unless you can afford to go to the other doom boat call Mars!

[@curtisloftis6003]

Agreed...Sir. The peasants rattle around the ankles of Dyson, they insult and belittle him, yet he was always respectful and something even more rare....reasonable. RIP, FJD, RIP...

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@showme360 - The IPCC itself states the effects of CO2-caused climate change will likely be trivial until the end of the century, and far from significant even after that.

[@dpeters9897]

“I grew up in the 1930s and everything then was so much worse!” Turns out we are all so spoiled we seek-out things to be outraged about. 🤷‍♂️

[@johngolden1352]

my god is this a true statement!

[@jennifergregory7461]

People are weak. God bless.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

It’s often said that people look back thru rose-tinted specs and see their youth as a golden age. I grew up in the 1970s, and jeepers was it grey and dull: I was almost permanently bored.

[@glenw-xm5zf]

I grew up in the 50's. You must be close to 100

[@matsv201]

I was discussing something similar with a millenial yesterday and he send loads of grapths, pretty much every one of the pointing up, then concluded we have it much worse now then people did in the 50s. Why? Because the graph did not point up as fast as it use to do. Well, yes, that is true. And some grapth did even point downwards. Like the graph of how cheap a average home was. Then when i told him that a average home was 4 times larger now than in 1950.. i totally lossed him On top of that. the 30 and 40 was pretty horrible years. The 50 with relative peace if cause was a huge step up. With that of cause, there are still plenty of corruption in society that does make people poorer today

[@sandfly]

What a lovely, modest fellow he is and what a sensitive interviewer. The worst might be full of 'passionate intensity' but the best like Freeman Dyson are smart enough to understand and accept that nothing in science or life is ever proven beyond doubt.

[@deanmindock3680]

Yep, real science is never "settled".

[@freebird1477]

Exactly. That's why that sentence that climate activists " the science says"as thou it were written in stone,

[@TheFlyingBrain.]

Foolish.

[@timelsen2236]

He was associated with the Heritage foundation which has pushed PROJECT 2025!

[@michaelblair6234]

The world will miss the genius and humility of Freeman Dyson. His common sense and deep understanding of the laws of physics are ignored by the AGW cult which is political, not scientific, in its motives.

[@ElCampiador]

This is exactly how interviews should be conducted, first class questions and first class answers from people at the top of their respective professions.

[@DreamFreeFPV]

what pandering to a preselected conclusion?

[@timelsen2236]

He was associated with the Heritage foundation which has pushed PROJECT 2025!

[@lorendjones]

Brilliant man. Sad that we're being led by non-critical thinkers who will fall for anything. Thanks for documenting his words for posterity. In 100 years people will look back on these archives and wish we'd listened to him.

[@mikehardwicke23]

Couldn't put it better myself however hard I tried 👍

[@JackFou]

It's kind of funny how climate change denialists are so desperate for intellectual validation that they elevate the handful of experts on their side to the status of "super experts" who's opinion trumps the literally *thousands* of experts on the other side of the argument. Dyson was certainly a brilliant man but that doesn't make him right on everything. Who's right in science is determined by careful examination of evidence and testing of hypotheses - not by the personal opinions of scientists, no matter how esteemed they are.

[@lorendjones]

@@JackFou you mean "literally thousands making money off alarmism" vs. a few thousand who disagree with the "consensus". As Einstein once said, "It only takes one" to refute a theory. Historical data demonstrates we've been warmer before...much warmer. Remember, the largest explosion of life happened when CO2 levels were around 7,000 ppm. All life ceases at 150 ppm. We're currently at 420 ppm. Which of those extremes are we closer to??

[@JackFou]

@@lorendjones There aren't thousands of climate scientists who reject the consensus. Just a few vocal ones. And do you really think the contrarians aren't being paid for their opposition? Are you really so naive? Sure, it's been warmer in the past. No one is denying that. But back in those days, millions of years ago, the planet was completely unrecognizable, sea levels were hundreds of feet higher and the planet was absolutely not suitable for the survival of 8 billion humans living in industrialized societies. Fact is, modern humans evolved in and adopted to a fairly narrow range of atmospheric CO2 and temperature and our current CO2 emissions are taking us waaaaay outside of that range in just a few decades. This is not good. Also the whole "all life ceases at 150 ppm" argument is a red herring. CO2 was fairly stable around 250-300 ppm for the past 10,000 years or so and it's only gone up since. We're not in any danger of eliminating all CO2 from the atmosphere.

[@mikehardwicke23]

@@JackFou I'd suggest you respect real scientists you shill! Wake-up!!

[@brianwatts9947]

This should be shown in every school in every Country throughout the World. I am so glad I watched it, simply because my personal thoughts on "Climate Change" gathered over a lifetime of 70 years of experience are directly in line with what this learned Gentlemen has said. I cannot believe that my conclusions matched exactly what his were and I have no Scientific Knowledge other than that learnt in school. But, toward the end, he used a term that no longer has meaning in this world, "Use Common Sense". Interestingly enough, he also pointed out that that children in India and China, and personally I think a few other Asian Countries are much more optimistic about the future. Whereas ours, (mine's in Australia) and from what I read those in America, England, Europe are growing up fearing the world is doomed. And that, should be a crime.

[@falseprogress]

Legit science teachers know that photosynthesis and heat-trapping triatomic molecular vibrations are unrelated functions of the CO2 molecule. They're not going to teach CO2-uptake as debunking the warming effect of CO2. That would only matter if huge amounts of forest cover were restored, but Man clears too much land for crops. The "plant a trillion trees" concept is impractical for the very reasons trees were originally cleared. falseprogress.home.blog/2018/06/24/why-saving-the-planet-is-a-lost-cause/

[@davidjames2174]

One thing a genuine scientist will NEVER say in connection with ANY scientific issue is "Use common sense." If all human beings had stuck to "common sense" science would never have come into existence.

[@falseprogress]

@@davidjames2174 "Common" sense is why so many rubes think they understand climate better than "elitist" scientists. The extended right-wing attack on "elitists" (anyone with intelligence/education beyond Joe Mechanic) has crippled the true quest for knowledge, at least in populist circles.

[@steveodavis9486]

Climate modeling with computers doesn't take into account all the variables. It cannot be used with any accuracy for forecasting. CO2 has historically varied in the world over time. Computer modeling Isn't capable of accounting for changes and political attempts to use it for political ends is dangerous.

[@trekpac2]

I don’t think this fellow really knows what “Asians” are thinking about the environment. People in China and Japan are also pretty fearful of the effects humans are having on the environment. China is leading the way on doing something about it. I see that the world population has gone from 2 billion to 8 billion since 1952, oceans are getting over-fished and polluted, many species are disappearing. Should common sense tell me that I should be calm and not worry? My “common sense” tells me that Dr. Dyson is pretty clever but he's just guessing. It seems to me that probably the earth is degrading more rapidly than it can replenish itself and that it is be better to be more concerned than complacent. Man is screwing up! But that is just my common sense. Maybe we should just forget it.

[@kbkesq]

Tony Heller fans here? Of course love to hear someone as erudite and scholarly as Dyson.

[@KabelkowyJoe]

Inconvenient truth day - find and watch all talks, it give even more data to full understand background of all of these. More than Tony provides.

[@beaugunn2632]

kbkesq ... You bet! I try to steer as many people as possible in Tony's direction.

[@beaugunn2632]

@@KabelkowyJoe ... Mmmmore than Tony provides? My brain hurts already after one of his average, graph rich videos!

[@KabelkowyJoe]

@@beaugunn2632 More i meant political background not just recent years, not just pure data. Where did it got from, who want it and for what reason ;)

[@beaugunn2632]

@@KabelkowyJoe ..... Yeh, OK.

[@MJ-qg1tk]

I'm glad this many people are still commenting 7 years after the release of this video! I hope more people would seek the truth. Thank you for being curious and not believing everything you are being told.

[@Only-one-life-68]

Sharing this video is sooo important.. I’ve shared many times,to friends and colleagues,that have also forwarded it on.. My opinion is that a lot more people have watched this video than what is stated.. God bless Mr Freedom

[@IIIRotor]

I can attest to the greener. Our rain only came in early December, and we have not had this amount of vegetation grow this fast and this prolific, ever before.

[@babsharris6724]

That's what my 89 years tell me to.

[@IIIRotor]

@Mr.Beant It is nether good nor bad... it's a fact... What is good is more CO2 gives more food, for less energy spent, in less time. Cold is much much harder to survive than hot... let Europe be the proof of that, this coming Winter...

[@brunosco]

Last year (2022), the grass in my parent’s garden in Belgium was totally yellow/brown for the first time after high temps and droughts. So no, it’s not all greener. And Mr Dyson was also talking about crops, not just wild plants, so I guess a patch of grass counts.

[@davidollikkala1572]

I picked up on the fact that Freeman isn't in fear of loosing his job. THAT is why I believe him. There's no fear "motive".

[@ericremington4145]

Climate opportunists greed for money

[@GregoryJByrne]

ClimateChange is a trojan horse Earths Glacial/tropical ClimateCycle is due to it's 26000 year Eliptical orbit around the SUN Earth is a closed co2 loop Rise in temp is CAUSING thawing rise of co2 EFFECT

[@chrisbutler7585]

Exactly. That's why you can't believe the "consensus" opinion. Average or subpar academics go all in for the climate change fraud in hope of getting grants or juicy appointments. The ones who know the truth keep their heads down and mouths shut and try not to make waves.

[@stucrossland3719]

What a great comment👍👍

[@blucheer8743]

Spot on!

[@johnshilling2221]

If anyone deserves the title of Sir, it is Dr Freeman Dyson. One of my favorite scientists, authors, and all-around people. He always examines the entire "Sphere" of each subject. (pun intended)

[@Guitarman7133]

Fuck yeah! SIR elton john, SIR paul mcartney, fuck em. Narcassistic, pretentious fuck wads. I like their music though.

[@ElCampiador]

"Sirs" nowadays are only reserved for failed and mostly useless politicians like Tony Blair and the like.

[@johncoughtrey8383]

Wonderful top Mark's to Freeman Dyson for exposing the truth.

[@johnbatson8779]

He did not have a PhD, he actually worked for a living

[@timelsen2236]

He was associated with the Heritage foundation which has pushed PROJECT 2025!

[@tedbaxter5234]

I agree - when someone says “Settled Science”, run!

[@ErikGauger]

Why?

[@RandyFelts2121]

When I was a child science class taught that Carbon Dioxide was a good thing, but if you think it's bad then you need to stop breathing out just hold it in I reckon?

[@lesliesepssy9222]

Hold your breath, that way you shortly won't have to pay any of your taxes!

[@johnedwards785]

"CO2 is so beneficial in so many ways it would be crazy to try to reduce it!" Freeman Dyson Well stated Mr. Dyson spoken with a mountain of wisdom that others have little or none of!!!

[@9256steven]

John, how rediculous are the IPCC, they want to extract Co2 from the air. A news feed I read today. Frightening really.

[@johnedwards785]

@ajspades19 Prove it by showing a link to the science that supports such a claim if it's true!

[@marcpadilla1094]

Above your pay grade. The environment or ecosystem under which you survive needs to be balanced against the life it supports. Not the other way around. If our existence creates an imbalance the system overrides towards correction. Hurricanes, floods,Typhoons, Twisters.Its turning on us and it will win.However,there are some of us that think we can weaponize the Earths forces for profit and purely selfish reasons. There are ways for elites to shelter themselves from whatever the Earth does to correct itself.

[@charliesmith3561]

CO2 is necessary but too much is harmful. (As with almost all things that are necessary)

[@charliesmith3561]

@ but humans struggle to function in 1000ppm of CO2. Is that good? This also applies to many animals. Thus the ecosystem would collapse

[@realityisreal3928]

what a good and smart man. more people should listen to him.

[@mattsmith87]

@ So governments should listen to his point of view rather than the hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers that provide statistics and figures supporting the anthropogenic view of climate change. All produced by climate scientists, whereas he is a physicist. You really are an easily duped special kind of stupid aren't you?

[@Treeesmith]

matt smith climate science is a scam perpetuated by paid shills and morons Which are you?

[@stucrossland3719]

He will be ignored because the agenda is in motion and governments are benefiting enormously.

[@DSBeholder]

A true expert....

[@kazzana9013]

@@stucrossland3719 Yes, the powers that be have invented a new tax stream and diverted sovereignty to world central power via this agenda. We will now see a push for centralized power in regards to health in future, whereby a very small group of unelected people make decisions for all.

[@lsequeira3139]

A most refreshing conversation to hear. A real scientist speaking real scientific truth, with humility. And thank you Stuart McNish for conducting such an excellent interview.

[@Jagsrcool]

How could he know anything? He is just a rational genius.

[@boffeycn]

Who, on his own admission knows fuck all about it but just doesn't like AGW & ACC. Real genius that. Not.

[@jwadaow]

@@boffeycn This is Freeman Dyson you are talking about here. "His own admission" is such a stupid phrase to use. All polite people play down their expertise if they are well educated.

[@boffeycn]

@@jwadaow "This is Freeman Dyson you are talking about here" Is it really? You amaze me with yur brilliant observational skills. Not. " "His own admission" is such a stupid phrase to use." Not al all. It is a fact. "All polite people play down their expertise if they are well educated." Dyson has never , ever played down anything to do with his self promotion as a superior creature, you ignorant wanker. If you had bothered your arrogant ignorant arse to do a little research you would not have posted your ludicrous claims, would you. If you had bothered your arrogant ignorant arse to do a little research you would also have known what he was claiming is total shite, wouldn't you.

[@herringfly]

@@boffeycn "total shite" ... you mean like the 11,000 "scientists" who signed a petition generated by someone's personal eco-blog? Wait a minute ... what was the other "total shite" part of that story ..?? .. Oh yes, the mainstream media passing it off as a genuine concensus of global climatologists. Still, along with wood-technology students and good old Mickey Mouse, a male nurse signed it - maybe he counts as a climate scientist in the la-la world of Extinction Rebellion and green virtue-signallers.

[@jwadaow]

@@boffeycn I have not done as little research as you I will admit that any day. He is mainly promoted by his colleagues because of his insight and preeminence. "His own admission" is a stupid phrase, it doesn't make it true for someone to admit something and rhetoric is not a fact. I made no claims, if you had bothered your immature little bottom to learn to read before copy-pasting your response you wouldn't think that kind of grammatical abortion was clever.

[@thegeneralist7527]

I'm amazed there are only 2000 views. Dyson has a unique perspective and I love how he frames his life growing up in the depression and not expecting to survive made him an optimist.

[@williambaikie5739]

KZbin must play with the numbers. Tony Heller's youtubes always have way low views too. Views=$ so get doctored by leftist as they think 'denialist are shills for $$' , of course it is the alarmist who really do it for the money.

[@jcalpha2717]

Idk I'm looking at 34,686 views

[@thegeneralist7527]

@@jcalpha2717 Yes, its hot now. Posted June 2015 evidently but now it is finally getting some well deserved views.

[@paularthur5563]

this is sept 28 views are over 65,000 and 2.2k likes - dont forget to hit the like button ppl - give it a boost

[@ConversationsThatMatter]

KZbin is blocking this interview

[@Ctajm]

I hope my mind is still this sharp when I'm 91 years old, 19 years from now. Dyson is still kicking at 95.

[@lesliesepssy9222]

No worries mate, I am 81, 'uneducated' uni-verse-itied in nothing, and since the age of 12, I remained a free thinker, using the brain that my God blessed me with! Any more out there! Respond to our call!

[@suziesmith2142]

Just keep thinking and learning and moving your body. I think people sit down, watch TV and they deteriorate. We don't have to do that. My roomy is deteriorating fast because she won't lose weight, she moves very little, she watches TV all day and the adverse health affects (effects)?, are piling up rapidly. She's only 66 and the poor thing is a MESS. Her mother lived to be 98, was fully ambulatory with very little cognitive decline. I know personally, and have seen many, people in their late 90's and beyond, who are truly sharp. Back when I was a kid, (I'm 62), a lot of people in their 60's had gotten old! Not today. My grandmother lived to be in her late 90's. Keep moving your body and keep learning. It's such a joy. The only TV show I watch is Better Call Saul, (but I watch it online), and I spend most of my screen time watching and listening to people in the sciences as well as other "how to" videos. KZbin is an amazing place. Best wishes for a very long, sharp and healthy life!

[@suziesmith2142]

@@lesliesepssy9222 Sometimes, a university does more damage than good, these days. But the honest scientists who are not working for the govt are a blessing for all of us. Check out Patrick Moore- he just recently gave a talk that was just stellar. His ability to provide complex data in a way us "un-universitied" types can understand, is remarkable. And his love for nature, our blessed earth and human beings shines through, joyously.

[@boffeycn]

No, he is bull shitting and lying.

[@boffeycn]

@@lesliesepssy9222 Which god was that?

[@kandipoopipants1794]

This needs to go viral again. Please!

[@micc6462]

I think it's time to take back our world from the lunatics

[@joshward7896]

Which lunatics?

[@micc6462]

@@joshward7896 the mad ones

[@grantsmith6052]

@@joshward7896 Michael Bloomberg

[@pablowall]

agreed... we need an enlightened centrist uprising. both the left and right have become so politicized to the point of spewing propaganda

[@johnsergei]

Their lunacy has earned them trillions of $ real wealth (not money). We are the loonies.

[@niallcurran7894]

Freeman Dyson, we need more sober minds like his in this modern scientific community. This has become a religion. Great interview.

[@iseriver3982]

Yes, I remember how all religions never push against the scientific consensus...

[@thedave7760]

Religion requires that you neve dissent from the current dogma.

[@johnathanmagliari8461]

His interpretation of the data is very wrong. That extra "greening" he refers to in satellite pics of earth is due to people fighting the carbon induced climate change by planting trees, grasslands, and farms in the deserts. That's all due to human hard work to FIGHT the increased carbon levels made by man

[@nash984954]

Bullshit,of course, CO2 grows stuff and at one time levels of toxic O2 was being created and was at 350mil yrs later 30% but no humans lived then, but 60 mil yrs later O2 was at 12%. How many even know what we're breathung now? 20.9% at sea level. Findings real world is they were being conservative and the animals are responding by mass extinctions, and this guy was still yapping but never mentioned the animals humans are changing their migrations and interrupting by resource and over fishing and wiping out the fungi that holds ecosystems roots of trees together together was how mamals came back from the last extinction. BUT the 1st evidence of greenhouse gas was from Venus and they noticed similar events happening but advanced due to human activity. No humans are on Venus nor are there producers of smog it's worse, for other reasons, ours happens to be different since humans exist here. Fossil fuels industry has the research we need to stop producing more in the atmosphere and did Dyson check levels in the oceans where dead zones exist now ? AN EXPERT IN ONE FIELD DOES NOT MAKE AN EXPERT IN ANOTHER FIELD. So you got a pawn. big whoop. Human hubris has attacked the planet and it will respond and screw humans, all of them and what they think they know. Look at the animals response, not just CO2 one gamma ray burst and civilisation is gone its emp kills all computers. Dyson is not a cosmologist astronomer, or biologist. Money grubbing wealthy oligarchs are in control now and short term profits. Dyson is wrong about Asia. That's right can't understand IPPC report then poo poo it. I doubt a 91 yr old man still can understand the newest changes as they've come too quick, and to many all at once, the extreme weathers is nature trying to respond and it does things over eons and ages, not human lifetimes, and foresight is best understand can hope for. Foresight is worth something and is not exactly predicting as the context this guy wants to couch it in. Thanks for video

[@nash984954]

@@thedave7760 'current' dogma? The Xians' Buybull has its last writing as done in 98AD its New Testicles chapters, a real testament to nutjobbery, so what current dogma you referring to Xian Zionists for whom John Hagee and his idolators of the fake state of Israel, no, of Zionists not Jews who have never been strong on nationalsim.

[@lf4459]

I celebrate CO2 , the most lifegiving mollecule ever !

[@pcproffy]

when you hold your breath, That burning, unavoidable desire to breathe is do to excess co2 making your blood toxic. It is not caused by lack of oxygen.

[@brett22bt]

You're a fucking idiot Ludovic

[@Leo555ZZZ]

CO2 is essential for all life on Earth...less than 150ppm and plants die ,,if plants die ,,everything dies.

[@brett22bt]

@@Leo555ZZZ BTW I live in Australia and even our far right government has finally conceded climate change is real and is a direct result of human involvement after the entire fucking roof fell on their heads. Time to wake up because time is short. .....and no the fires weren't started by tree hugging animal lovers.

[@grantduke318]

Brett McNear Tell me, how can the same “climate change alarmists,” spread nonsense about how storms have been increasingly more destructive due to hotter, more water vapor dense air columns, while also portraying the fires in Australia are also 100% caused by climate change. Whenever the world has a catastrophe, it’s just automatically due to human impact, because that obviously makes sense? The rate of CO2 increase is concerning, but it’s not that simple. In Australia controlled burns didn’t happen like they needed to, on top of whatever kind of La Niña/ El Niño caused a prolonged dry period. These our things out of humanity’s control, no carbon tax or organization could have altered the outcome. People are just becoming more and more control freaks as our technological lives evolve us into more reliance. You can’t control nature! No amount of renewables will ever make a dent in leading us towards carbon negative, nor would we want to. Plants and animals can thrive perfectly fine with 2000 ppm CO2, there is no evidence suggesting otherwise. Ever heard of diminishing returns?

[@elizabethannegrey6285]

What a MARVELLOUS elderly gentleman! So refreshing to hear such an educated person speak common sense and sanity into this fraught topic.

[@susancronk8512]

Why would we need to genetically modify trees? Just plant more.

[@dropbearjd8986]

If we can modify one tree to absorb 10x as much carbon dioxide as a regular tree....I mean....that could be kinda useful.

[@chriss2595]

@@dropbearjd8986 Possibly. But we learned also that a lot of genetically modified products are more sensitive to diseases, even after years. So, it's always experimenting in real life.

[@dropbearjd8986]

Chris S true. It's all a big con anyway so we won't need to mess with them. But she asked 'why?' And in the context of what he said....

[@chriss2595]

@@dropbearjd8986 Agreed. ;-)

[@pjmclach]

we dont

[@7munkee]

CO2 is plant food. I learned that 45 years ago in 3rd grade.

[@williambaikie5739]

Doctor Dyson speaks the truth, thanks! I hope more scientist stop hiding and denounce the alarmism over CO2.

[@PetraKann]

Read the relevant peer reviewed scientific literature, withdraw your comments and then submit an apology

[@williambaikie5739]

@@PetraKann I have, no and no. If you have read the literature and are still an Alarmist then you want to be one. Alarmist generally are uneducated and know so little about science that they just cite authority and say silly things like "97% of scientist agree".

[@cindymerkley5758]

The scientists that go along with the climate change theory get the grants money talks and politicians. Can use this scare to control the people

[@PetraKann]

@@cindymerkley5758 what about scientists who work in the fossil fuel industry? Cindy you should apologise

[@rogerdiogo6893]

The invention of the heat index, what in Europa is call humidity allows people to show a warming world, when is actually cooling...

[@marieljunggren8568]

When science combines with common sense you get this: Brilliance and truth! ❤

[@timelsen2236]

He was associated with the Heritage foundation which has pushed PROJECT 2025!

[@vonshango6311]

7:15 you say we can one day gene splice trees to absorb excess amounts of carbon in environment if it ever gets too high 100+ years from now if needed. 10:00 the models are not good predictors of climate due to real world complexity, you cant model everything ex sun spot activity and solar cycles storms and cosmic rays/radiation. 14:25 you cant take water vapor out of the equation. 15:15 co2 is so beneficial in so many ways, it would be insane to reduce it. 17:30 computer models are good to predict up to 5 days out, not more. 18:40 if we keep burning oil and coal it'll do us good, the earth will get greener as a result. 19:45 this mood of doom and gloom is only in the western academics and media, not most of world and the general public has a lot more common sense. 21:08 manmade climate change is real, but marginal and on the whole beneficial, good, sustainable, not dramatic or detrimental.

[@shaynefowley5689]

vonshango good highlights. Need to know how to spell the Israeli scientist studying solar cycles.

[@kahtel1873]

Dr . Dyson speaks the truth. It’s refreshing isn’t it when the truth is let out.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

FREEMAN DYSON has ties to the Mercer Family Foundation whos tax returns since 2005 show some $22 million has gone to groups pushing climate science denial. Across the board, the groups funded by the Mercers have misrepresented climate science, promoted fossil fuels, denigrated renewable energy, and pushed to strip powers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

[@alwoo5645]

@@hosnimubarak8869 yeah yeah a shill etc you think he's lying for money? get a grip!

[@hosnimubarak8869]

@@alwoo5645 Truth hurts eh.

[@alwoo5645]

@@hosnimubarak8869 yeah it's hurts you when a scientific genius like Dyson tell it as it is. The guy is in his 90s he has no desire for financial gain you idiot.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

@@alwoo5645 Money talks Al, and Tyson knows which side of the bread the butter goes on.

[@Sapwolf]

I can confirm. With CO2 up, I mowed the front lawn, went into the house to get a drink, came back outside and lo and behold, I swear that same lawn grew 3 inches while getting a drink. This was in southeast Michigan during the summer back around 2002. 🙂

[@concert_rat1004]

Lawn weeds grow 4” taller while you’re in the house getting a drink.

[@Epsilonsama]

Dyson died recently in February of this year 2020. This guy was a hell of a mind and it's good to see that he saw the BS behind the Climate hysteria.

[@kevincharles1900]

remember the sad day Dyson passed away. This remember before any lockdowns had startedand the news was only 5% abt covid19. There was not a single piece abt this sad news aired at all that day on the bbc news. Shameful, but not shocking in the WOKE bbc news of today.

[@krasavam1625]

is he a Nobel prize winner

[@MrMawnster]

Too bad he's utterly wrong. Eh even the smartest people aren't perfect though right. Stop your idolization.

[@peterdelmonte9832]

These comments are so funny. Armchair warriors attracted by the inevitable loner, conveniently ignoring the overwhelming body of research saying the opposite. Before the Americans were bamboozled into voting in Trump, I remember him seated with a group of out of work West Virginian coal miners. The mines had closed. He told them when he became President he’d reopen those mines. Directly after, a mining engineer explained why that would be impossible owing to flooding and resultant collapses…plus the industry was uneconomic. I’ve checked over the intervening years and no mine was reopened. My guess is that those desperate former miners were convinced to vote for that lying psychopath at least once. Then we grew one of our own! I’m not saying this elderly chap has a personality disorder, only that to believe the one voice that appeals to you is a mistake.

[@johnbatson8779]

no, he actually did real work in this physical world....remember a Nobel was granted to the idiot who developed the frontal lobotomy, a procedure that maimed thousands@@krasavam1625

[@kayeallen2742]

My children have been environmentalist’s since elementary school and it continues through University. Their passion is intriguing even though they label me a climate change denier. I believe climate changes daily and we must simply deal with what we are given. Alas, I find Mr Dyson’s talk very refreshing.

[@doyourbest7655]

To bring my house plants back to health, they go outside near the laundry exhaust vent. That CO2 + warm air + water produces remarkable results.

[@georgedavidson1221]

Smart

[@durandalgmx7633]

If you mean your laundry dryer, it does not produce any CO2. It heats with electricity.

[@_SimpleSam]

@@durandalgmx7633 People have gas dryers :D

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

why does co2 come out of your dryer? I don't think so!

[@_SimpleSam]

@@melvinrexwinkle1510 Gas dryers are better, lmfao

[@Quadrant14]

R.I.P Freeman Dyson a giant of Science

[@boffeycn]

Who lost the plot.

[@timelsen2236]

He was associated with the Heritage foundation which has pushed PROJECT 2025!

[@petonovy]

Excellent interview. Very intelligent and educated answers by Mr.Dyson. Thank you.

[@superbad1585]

Without co2 we would die along with all life on earth.

[@judewarner1536]

Cyanide is an essential heart medicine in tiny medical doses. In only slightly larger doses, it is a lethal poison. Any simplistic assessment of the efficacy of ANY component in the great wheel of life is a danger to the terminally ignorant.

[@cliveapps7105]

Yes but only within limits. To much CO2 is toxic to both plants and animals. Levels around 800 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere limit plant growth. One of the most ignored problems is that the O2 level has been falling much faster than the CO2 is rising, and there seem to be little attention given to this problem. Every CO2 molecule removes 1 O2 molecule from circulation at the same time. This effectively doubles the change in atmospheric values toward the CO2.

[@dougfinn]

What a great conversation. Thank you to everyone who made it possible for us to hear it.

[@raisingconsciousness777]

"It would be crazy to try to reduce it (co2)."

[@davidallen2077]

"What I'm convinced of is that we don't understand climate ... It will take a lot of very hard work before that question is settled."----Freeman Dyson, 2014

[@joeisawesome540]

We also don’t fully understand cancer. I guess we shouldn’t treat anyone until then? We understand enough climate to know that there is a high possibility of it becoming very costly for human

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

And who are u to question him . another lieing liberal

[@chrisp3913]

@@joeisawesome540 good analogy except it isn’t

[@joeisawesome540]

@@chrisp3913 explain

[@nitrousinject]

@@joeisawesome540 we DO understand that cancer is bad for the host. We also DO understand that additional CO2 helps plant life thrive. We DON'T understand the totality of each factor "we" attribute to climate change. The argument is that you simply cannot model everything and there are some known and concrete facts, such as CO2 and nitrogen being beneficial to plant life, so we cannot ignore known facts in favor of assuming we know things that we aren't even close to grasping in totality. The current "science" does factor in many variables, but it also ignores just as many, either due to lack of knowledge or due to intent. For example, CO2 levels on Earth were historically orders of magnitude greater than they are now and the planet still supported life.

[@lbaker3602001]

I've known this way back in the 1970's, High biology class. Plants & trees take in CO2 'as food' and produce O2 'Oxygen'. I'm no scientist, where's my $250K salary ?

[@antsiro]

And most people don't remember the end of that class: when there is no sunlight (night) plants breath oxygen and produce CO2. Net carbon absorption is rather small, as much as oxygen production for most plants..

[@mickbrenton]

I can’t get over how sharp and humorous he is at his age!

[@boffeycn]

Cocaine.

[@daos3300]

that's called intelligence.

[@boffeycn]

@@daos3300 So why is it he knows fuck all about what the things on which he is pontificating? Example. Computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it." Thereby proving Dyson didn't have a clue about the subject! He had obviously only listened to liars and believed them without bothering to check, proof the old boy was senile and had lost the plot. Great shame.

[@boffeycn]

@@poochie81 Do you do English as well as infantile word salads?

[@mickbrenton]

Darren Maltby Thank you for calling out Willy Wong on his wong think!

[@bobjackson4720]

It's so interesting/reassuring to hear a more realistic, practical point of view.

[@michaelmcintyre9179]

I read a report on C Change it claims while co2 is good for plants , in the long run it may produce plants that are less nutritious . At roughly the same time The Weather Network on computer stated that if we planted billions of trees this would fix climate change. Now in truth plants absorb co2 during the day but at night they give off gases . I do recall that when in Brazil , way way back they started hacking away the rain forest , it would be the end of times. I recall thinking to -myself some power or force should make them stop, but no one listened

[@johnnyrotten4895]

He said practical .

[@russellfield5010]

@@michaelmcintyre9179 The gas trees give off is called oxygen.

[@mattsmith87]

Point of view... you said it. What about the peer reviewed scientific papers in scientific journals that say climate change is a result of anthropogenic activity?

[@russellfield5010]

@@michaelmcintyre9179 Genetic modification is making our food less nutricious.

[@williamm8069]

As a biologist, my intuituon was that higher CO2 would increase photosynthesis as many marihuana growers understand. This would yield more O2 as well. Another not often discussed topic is the combustion reaction of hydrocarbons yields additional atmospheric H2O vapor. Clouds are difficult to model but can reflect sunlight away from earth thus cooling it a bit.

[@georgehofgren6123]

"A bit"... more like Tremendously. Air pollution seeds clouds which is Why we were cooler without current Extreme emissions regulations than we are now. The difference is clear, even over just the past ten years ~

[@franklinmartin8103]

You are correct sir.

[@kazzana9013]

Conversely, clouds can also act as a blanket for the earth and keep heat in. I have often noticed more stable temperatures here in New Zealand when we have a blanket of clouds, particularly overnight.

[@georgehofgren6123]

@@kazzana9013 Here we go again with standard ignorance of Thermodynamics... yep, Clouds can mitigate heat loss, just like a blanket. That doesn't INCREASE temperature, it Stabilizes it. BLOCKING sunlight from even making it to the earth surface Decreases temperature, regardless of what it does or doesn't block, coming off 🙄~

[@georgehofgren6123]

When You put on a blanket, You get warmer because You radiate heat (from the food you eat). A Rock doesn't make, nor radiate hear. If you leave a blanket on a rock anywhere on the planet it will ultimately Cool off, not warm up -

[@jeffreyluciana8711]

We are in a carbon-starved period in earth's history. We need higher CO2 in the atmosphere

[@lesliesepssy9222]

Notice, truth is shouted down in every level, the media leading the way, blessed by the corrupt politician's the World over! Does the truth interest you? Grab hold of your Bible, if you got one, Yesus said; I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life....., As soon Yesus uttered these Words, Truth became a Person, so, if truth realy interest you, you will have to come to Yesus, for In Him you sure to find 'Him'! For it is no longer an 'it'!

[@boffeycn]

@@lesliesepssy9222 Did you know there is no contemporaneous evidence whatsoever of the existence of the biblical Jesus? And before you come back with the usual party line, please note "contemporaneous", "evidence" and "biblical Jesus”.

[@boffeycn]

Bollocks.

[@patrickkelly7612]

@@lesliesepssy9222 How come Jesus knew nothing about micro-organisms, and advised against hand-washing because Man could not be defiled by way of his mouth?

[@drstrangelove4998]

Absolutely, if we reduce C02 to 150 ppm plants die and all life on earth.

[@marinoceccotti9155]

A soothing rational voice in a world full of mass hysteria.

[@fastcomputerrepairs]

The madness of crowds. The madness of the Luceferian Climate Alarmists.

[@JohanBrouwerPhotography]

It’s more for the banking system follow the money who get’s the most out of the brainwashing the big money a lot of fear is the big engine, we do any thing for or children, they don’t have them most of the time only for succession, look for it. Al they want is power, money, land, Gold, Oil, Dollars.

[@lesliesepssy9222]

What does prince Charles know about CO2? He knows a plenty about TAXES, if he pays any!

[@RussW185]

Climate Change protagonists are spreading like a plague. We need a balanced argument.

[@PetraKann]

The argument was settled about 60 years ago in the Peer reviewed scientific literature. That is where science conducts its business. You can discuss whatever you like in public. There was a "balanced" argument in public that debated whether smoking tobacco products is detrmental to a person's health or causes diseases such as cancer. Remember that? Is that the sort of "balanced argument" you are calling for? Anthropogenically driven global warming and its effects on climate, sea level, ice melting, extinction rates, disease migration, coral bleaching etc are clearly outlined in a vast peer review scientific literature base than spans back to the original publication in the 1840s. You can either refer to the studies, evidence and conclusions published by the relevant scientific experts or continue posting spin, corporate propaganda, flat earther type ignorance and fear. Now which is it going to be Mr Wellings? You need to submit a public apology.

[@stanleytolle416]

From guys that know nothing about the subject?

[@normanstewart9857]

It's astonishing, and worrying, how susceptible people are to government propaganda.

[@PetraKann]

@@normanstewart9857 ...rather than corporate propaganda.

[@bipolatelly9806]

Petra Kann That's what you spread. "corporate propaganda". It's just that you're far too dumb to realise it. You're what's known (by those in the know) as a "useful idiot".

[@kennethward4985]

Love what he said that so many of us know instinctively, climate change believers are more like a religion than fact based. The truth is a model can give you any results you want according to the program and numbers you give it.

[@wwsuggs2857]

Grampa " Bill". Told me. About math with the caviette. Figures don't lie...but liars can figure... never found that saying to be in error.

[@nicolagianaroli2024]

Orwell in 1984 explain that in Oceania the ideology is called EngSoc but in Eastasia the ideology is a sort of deathcult. Seems that at current time we are under the influence of both of them

[@gareth5000]

When I was into naughtyculture I discovered Co2 enrichment. It made a huge difference.You could watch the plants growing in front of your eyes! Light, water, nutrients and heat, plants go crazy. Like in the Carboniferous age. In the dark ages there was mass starvation and disease, we don't want that.

[@eviken1982]

Yes that's true all what i see in my backjard that everything is growing to fast.

[@darkmanx2825]

When you mix carbon dioxide with humidity in veg the explosions are amazing......

[@gingercox6468]

Im afraid there are factions today that are intentionally working toward famine!

[@gareth5000]

I agree, it’s terrifying!

[@JennyBrie2006]

@@gingercox6468 I agree

[@9realitycheck9]

Plants on average utilize H2O (water) more efficiently at these higher CO2 levels.

[@janewhitington9461]

Thank you, kind sir, I am 82, and I remember my mother talking about the Spanish Flu epidemic and how amazing that she and other members of our family survived, and seeing a video of the effects all over the US and in combination with the WW1 buildup and the war itself make me wonder really how much we can withstand and come out strong again and vibrant. That flu and in combination with a very ugly war (trench warfare) was devastating, and within ten years afterwards, the country was forging forward. We humans are very resillient, and we really don't need to create gloom and doom scenarios, especially on flimsy evidence and for political power and financial gain. Thanks again; I'm glad to see that you are still alive and well. God bless!

[@BvictoryforChrist]

Hope you are 84 and still kicking Jane, we younger generations need healthy elders with sharp memories like yours, especially today.

[@brianrajala7671]

I am very pleased that people like Dr Freeman, Dr Happer, Dr Patrick Moore, Dr Estebrooks, and others continue to speak with facts ... against the masses who accept the destructive rhetoric that pounds our brains every day with many unsubstantiated predictions!

[@brianrajala7671]

Dr Freeman Dyson that should be!

[@arturoeugster7228]

This is getting more important as the politization of CO2 is increasing, to the point that entire well established power systems are destroyed to achieve the zero emission myth.

[@arturoeugster7228]

Add Dr Otto Weiss to the group above

[@jeffpizzuli9680]

Also, Roy Spencer, John Christy, Richard lindzen, Judith curry and so many more brilliant scientists that know this climate alarmism is bs

[@jhacksb1399]

Idiots believe anything they want to. Facts don’t matter. Hyperbole does!

[@raderator]

400ppm is still too low. Plants would like it 4x higher. That would bring it back to the norm for the late phanerozoic.

[@PetraKann]

You need to apologise and withdraw your comments

[@lacossanostra]

correct that's why greenhouses in the Netherlands that produces flowers and food like bell peppers ect are heating up their greenhouses with gas and capture the Co2 that comes from the exhaust and pump it directly into the greenhouses up to 1200 ppm Co2 so the food and flowers grow faster co2 is not a pollutant and its only is 1 % of all the gasses in out atmos

[@andrew30m]

lacossa nostra perhaps we could try something that doesn’t melt glaciers and the poles, increased plant growth will have limited benefit whilst we are still concreting the planet and chopping down forests

[@tincanbanditgunsmithing5720]

@@andrew30m Why? The ice is going to melt eventually, the current ice age will end eventually and the Earth will return to a warm state, with our without humans. What humans are doing is putting a VERY small amount of the CO2 trapped in fossil fuels back in to the atmosphere where it CAME FROM. In fact the amount of CO2 increase is most likely due to the Oceans warming and releasing stores of CO2 and the cause of the current ocean warming has nothing to do with modern humans, as it takes centuries to warm the oceans.

[@andrew30m]

Tincanbandit Gunsmithing all the current evidence is that it is human induced climate change, it matters because unlike human induced climate change which has happened over 200 years or so, where as the natural outcome happens over several 100,000’s years allowing for adaption. Interesting that the climate deniers started with it’s not warming at all, it is warming but it’s not humans, it’s humans but we don’t know how much, now it’s the trees will deal with it, the trees will deal with it but need to be genetically engineered, eventually the US will get it’s not some weird left wing plot by some New world order...

[@ivantuma7969]

all the nice green grass growing in Siberia now (in between craters left by released ice-age methane pockets) ..."this is fine, I like it here ... it's green"

[@kellyw8017]

Thing is, Earth's climate constantly changes all on its own without humans. We act like the smallest potential change over the next 80 years would be catastrophic. If you look at studies that don't cook the books, there have been many cycles were the earth was warmer than even what is projected if CO2 actually does cause a slight temperature increase. One study states that there is a saturation point for CO2-caused increase in temperature--and we're there or about there already; after that, the effect levels off. I believe we should focus on reducing human pollutants in the air, which seems to be far more relevant. And most importantly, we all know that cars will go mostly electric within the next 20 years. And fusion technology will eventually come about within the next 30 years. For now, we can almost instantly reduce 1/4 of greenhouse methane emissions by not eating meat (which also saves about 25% of fresh water and will drastically reduce or stop the clearing of the Amazon rainforest). Since that's not happening, it's clear evidence that the doomsday proselytizers aren't actually certain that what they're saying is gospel. Plus, no one believing in the dire nature of global warming would take any Uber unless it was UberPool, which is the only option that reduces CO2; Uber as a taxi service increases CO2. And I can't tell you how many prostelizers refuse to give up meat and insist on using Uber as a taxi service, instead of taking UberPool. I would love to do a study to see how many take an Uber to get a burger or other meaty take-out.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Give me some please. Hello from Australia.

[@superapex2128]

Any high school graduate knew about the carbon cycle back in the day. This is not rocket science but it certainly bears repeating!

[@mr.t5262]

The perfect person/mind... in perfect life circumstances, to be able to tell the truth as he sees it without fear . Enlightening.... AND refreshing to hear...👏

[@deepsouthinception]

Refreshing conversation, thank you for posting. I am sick of climate change hysteria based on misrepresentations of data mislabeled as "science".

[@ThomasLee123]

Truth!

[@boilingfrog783]

Unfortunately, Stuart seems to have now drunk the MMCC Kool Aid, judging by his more recent interviews.

[@DSBeholder]

Same here

[@roldangonzalez7360]

The Marxist democrats will always create a crisis where there is no crisis. Their aim throughout history never changes, to control the masses implement policy through propaganda and fear, that lead to the destruction and death of any society that they get their hands on. They have no belief in God almighty, no respect of personal rights, property, wealth or freedom. The right of conscience is not allowed nor is the right to believe and worship GOD. They are the very opposite of what America 🇺🇸 stands for. We are so fortunate to live in such a wonderful country GOD BLESS America 🇺🇸 in JESUS name🙏🏻

[@motorcop505]

The “Average Global Temperature” is meaningless, since there are countless microclimates that exist all over the earth, let alone the difference between continents. Likewise, nobody can say what the optimal “average temperature” is! Great interview.

[@MrDorbel]

The temperatures are taken in all areas of the globe and averaged out, so not meaningless. We can say that there is an optimal average temperature for life as we know it and it is rising at an alarming rate. Dr Dyson is indeed an original thinker and a very charming man, but as the years pass, he veers further away from reality.

[@alfredvinciguerra532]

We have evolved to live in the tropics not on ice

[@MrDorbel]

@@alfredvinciguerra532 Actually that isn't true. Half the world's population lives between Latitudes 20º and 40º North, the temperate zone that suits us, our animals and our crops. Tropical life is tough and getting tougher.

[@blueodum]

@@qed100 There are huge limitations in this approach. The problem is that many people don't understand how much uncertainty is in these measures.

[@patriciamccandless7940]

Yep at my work it can be 2 to 3 degrees hotter than my home, 28 miles away.

[@melvinhunt6976]

Ever notice how Healthy and Green the GRASS AND TREES ARE ON ALL OF THE HIGHWAYS!

[@PetraKann]

Read the relevant peer reviewed scientific literature, withdraw your comments and then submit an apology

[@melvinhunt6976]

@@PetraKann l've read the fake reports. The liberals have skewed the Whole climate change Hoax! You Are taught in school, at least 40 years ago, to be able to make an argument both one way or another. I've read both sides and climate change is a LIE. !

[@PetraKann]

@@melvinhunt6976 List 5 peer reviewed scientific articles that relate to Anthropogenic Global Warming and its effect on climate, sea level, ice cover etc (I am fully aware of the level of propaganda in the USA. Also the division of people's opinions due to the politicisation of this simple scientific fact)

[@melvinhunt6976]

@@PetraKann you have the same information l have, you are greener, and lm not. My argument doesn't matter to you,nor yours to me.

[@PetraKann]

@@melvinhunt6976 The truth matters though., Why are you afraid of it? You must apologise in writing Mr Hunt

[@pluijm2]

"Battling climate change" keeps the gravy train going, that's all.

[@BRM101]

Sure does and the train just keeps getting longer

[@FigthAGAINSTSCOIALISM]

Keeps the votes and money going. A good tool for ideologically aligned to keep their power.

[@welderlogic1806]

It's one of the popular false narratives that those in positions of power use to perpetuate their position. In other words, government uses a boogeyman to make you think you need more government.

[@pluijm2]

@@welderlogic1806 Exactly right.

[@nbrown5907]

CO2 is about 400 PPM, through most of Earth's history it has been well over 1000 PPM but no one wants to talk about that fact.

[@oddsman01]

Or how plants evolved to grow very well in a window of CO2 much higher than current levels, why some trees evolved fire resistance along with cones and seeds that seem to do really well after a fire, and why palm trees and other vegetation evolved to either resist or bounce back quickly from hurricanes. I was told extreme weather was humanity’s doing or, my favorite, the unfalsifiable ‘it wouldn’t have been so bad.’

[@ПавелКовалёв-с5ь]

But concentrations more than 1000 ppm is a limit for healthy breathing (this value used for disinging ventilation systems in long occupied buildings)

[@oddsman01]

@@ПавелКовалёв-с5ь I believe that’s just a benchmark for good air circulation. If it’s 400 ppm outside and 1000 ppm inside, an improvement in ventilation is recommended. Workplace safety is somewhere in the neighborhood of no more than 10,000 ppm for eight hours. I’m not sure at what ppm the most sensitive people would notice anything. Maybe 2000 ppm?

[@ПавелКовалёв-с5ь]

@@oddsman01 maybe. But i mean long terms. If we have 1000 ppm in atmosphere we never have 1000 ppm indoor air (in this case we must have infinite air exchange ratio)

[@Damianpsm]

This man is so brilliant, he basically called the entire science community morons withou using Ad hominem. You can see him smirk a little twice maybe three times...

[@boffeycn]

Sadly, he is the moron because he didn't have a clue about what he was claiming to be true.

[@susanwebster7584]

hahaha he is brilliant yet humble and polite too. A great scientist and a gentleman.

[@boffeycn]

@@susanwebster7584 Really? So why is he telling so many lies? And why are you upvoting yourself. Again.

[@trekpac2]

He's a nice and clever old guy, but is smart enough to accept the depth of his ignorance.

[@stuarthodgkinson848]

@@boffeycn you are so wong wong

[@marytapioca]

He's not working for the money. Notice how they call science a business at the 17 minute mark.

[@StevenRueschDE]

Really informative. It confirms a hunch I had about things I learned in school. I love the well-mannered form of interview. I don't know where this provocative form of questioning has it's basis but I'm glad this intelligent person was allowed to pass on valuable data .

[@MrMousekillaz]

another inconvenient truth for Algore

[@jawneelogik5744]

@@rkb6783 I always say All Bore, but yours is much closer to the truth.

[@matak99]

@@jawneelogik5744 Al aGorey that displaces truth.

[@ronclark9724]

@Mactrip100 Obama bought oceanfront property on Martha's Vineyard. So much for being worried about climate change flooding within ten years of the Dems NEW GREEN DEAL.

[@davidmahfuz5721]

The 'man' with the dead orange rat on his head SQUATTING in the White House WILL be forced to resign in total disgrace to this country in 2020 .

[@boffeycn]

Why are you sexually fixated on Gore?

[@mxdatas]

But we need CO2 in the air. We now only have about 400 ppm in the air. Ideal would be 1000 ppm. Then it would also be the best for the plants. Unfortunately, the Co2 in the air has already decreased a lot and will decrease even more the colder the water in the oceans gets. If we come in the course of development to only 150 ppm then it comes to the death of all plants and their consequences.

[@pablorages1241]

it amazes me... even with increased levels at 400 ppm .... it's still one of the lowest levels of CO2 in earths history ... why do all these libtard climate alarmists think the perfect CO2 level would be LOWER?

[@williamgeorge1028]

During the Jurassic era, the co2 levels were closer to 2000 PPm and the temperature was on average about 72 degrees F sorry it was the Cambria era that it was estimated at 7000PPM

[@boffeycn]

@Raymond Babcock Yes, Raymond, and you are living proof of wilful ignorance and stupidity.

[@boffeycn]

@@pablorages1241 Yes pablo, but the Earth was a far, far different place then. Are you aware that in the Cambrian, when CO2 was at its highest, life on Earth was just simple, mainly aquatic plants and creatures?

[@boffeycn]

CO2 and plants Fun Facts. The atmosphere is not a greenhouse but CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Fun Facts. When CO2 is added to greenhouses so are large quantities of water and artificial nutrients. Fun Facts. When CO2 is added to the atmosphere large quantities of water and artificial nutrients are not available.

[@darryllandry9904]

The greening is obvious and has been before. Coal beds for instance. Earth has many, many plants which looooooove CO2.

[@huwthomas9954]

Legit.

[@playlistsforeverypurpose]

There's a plot of land near my parents ' house which is so much greener now than what it used to be when I stayed there. Before there was just a grassland. Now it's covered with pine trees.

[@theodorelukasz912]

Makes absolute sense! Especially about the myriad amount of factors when "measuring" c02 and carbon dioxide, wind, landscape, mountains, altitude, weather and the list goes on... In Australia we were ravaged with climate events the past two years and the one thing I've learnt is fire and carbon dioxide is not necessarily a bad thing. The fires that hit our East coast shredded and destroyed so much and still the rain that came within a week or so of this event was so refreshing after the smoke. I was lucky enough to travel and witness the aftermath of this event and to see the scorched trees growing so much folage so quickly seemed almost unnatural. There seems to almost more dense forests growing which only adds to my belief that the Earth is living and breathing organism which is so complicated that to say without a doubt we are doing the majority of damage is I believe just crazy! When we take into consideration not only the solar flares that the sun expels which we have absolutely no way of manipulating, that can take weeks or months for us to feel rhe effects. Add events of volcano's like the recent ones in Tonga which expel billions of tonnes of chemicals and minerals into the atmosphere. The fact that life on this planet is carbon and in some way or another uses energy or carbon and expels waste for it to be changed into another matter... for there to be a campaign to reduce carbon emissions I see is essentially a fight against the living. Could we be less wasteful yes certainly could we minimise our impact yes... however there are still going to be events yearly or monthly that do more damage than we humans do in a whole year with our contributed pollution. The weather is a weird and wonderful thing when it can snow in summer in Australia when we are supposed to be in a "global warming phase". But now what seems to be a cult for the woke call it "climate change" which is like saying its raining today but we won't measure the rainfall. We can not dispute the climate is changing however the question remains... Why? And how?

[@bgilchrist228]

With over 10,000 active volcanoes spewing carbon randomly I doubt human activity has anything to do with increased carbon in the atmosphere.

[@Juggler4071]

Your feelings on the matter are, of course, more valid than all of the scientific studies and measurements that disagree with you.

[@helenholdsworth6407]

Yes, and Jesus Christ said that there would be an increase in these, one of the "birth pangs".

[@bgilchrist228]

@@Juggler4071 Carbon dioxide, it's what plants need to breath! You mean the scientific measurements that East Anglia University emails showed that the earth was cooling and "scientists" were scrambling to cover up this data? The money grab is no longer due to "global warming" it is now needed for "climate change" because of this exposed fraud. The sheeple can't remember for more than a few years though. Obama isn't worried about sea levels though, he has 2 mansions at 2 feet above sea level.

[@Juggler4071]

@@bgilchrist228 Oh good, a torrent of stupid.

[@Juggler4071]

@@helenholdsworth6407 The opinions of long-dead Jewish carpenters also hold very little sway in the scientific community.

[@oksam7667]

“CO2 is so beneficial it would be crazy to reduce it”

[@boffeycn]

correct if CO2 were still at the level all extant avian and terrestrial species evolved at, i,e, when CO2 was around 200 ppm. But then with the onset of the Industrial Revolution it started to rise, to 295 ppm a hundred years ago to 415 ppm today, so we evolved at 200 ppm, not 415 ppm.

[@jamesdurpington8619]

@@boffeycn Lol

[@boffeycn]

@@jamesdurpington8619 Yes, the OP was a joke.

[@juliamarple3202]

100%

[@paymydues]

The Rothchilds et al think the 'useless eaters' (us) need culling pure and simple. They will do anything to achieve this by stealth.

[@samslick9000]

21:10 That guy in Vancouver owns oceanfront properties in Vancouver, on Georgia strait island . Also, one in Australia he has to fly to. He doesn't seem to think rising ocean levels will affect his properties

[@lokensga]

All this brilliance - - talking about everything but the incontrovertible, namely, the rising ocean levels. Straight-forward calculations of the amount of glacier ice in the world and the known accelerating rate of melting leads to the inescapable conclusion of the disappearance of most of Bangladesh, half of Florida, major coastal cities all over the world... I have yet to see any argument against this predictable effect.

[@blueodum]

@@lokensga Sea level measurements are rising (at most) about 2.3 mm per year. Or maybe the coasts are subsiding, or a combination - hard to tell the difference. Some coastlines will suffer sea level rises, some drops. The rate is so slow that humans will easily adapt to these changes.

[@johngrear6506]

My God, 91 years old and still an absolute rockstar.

[@matsv201]

well i hope he have a good 15 years more to live. He do look a bit... well aged. When my grandad was 91 he was still doing bike races.

[@RedwoodTheElf]

My completely accurate prediction on Earth's Climate: It will continue to change, unpredictably, as it has for the past 4 billion years or so, and nothing humans can do will suddenly make it predictable. That is how chaotic systems like climate and the weather work.

[@sonnyburnett9077]

People are notoriously bad at dealing with randomness (I dabbled a little in statistics and social science just after the last ice age). Our brains are hardwired to try and predict things to increase our chances of survival in the wild. If you see tiger footprints the brain will tell you to walk in the opposite direction because last time when you didn't, it came back to bite you. It obviously works on far more complicated things. You can detect and smell moisture in the air, temperature change and other mostly subconscious changes and know a thunderstorm is coming. But that system fails when you try to apply it to where lightning is going to strike. You can avoid trees but more often than not it probably won't hit any tree in your field of view. And sometimes it will leave the tree you avoided and hit you. So the brain fails at what it's supposed to. The result is anxiety, the associated fight or flight response without any direction of flight or any enemy to fight. Now the courageous will accept they have no control and hope for the best. For the feeble mind, logic has just died, fundamentalist religion was just born and if you do not conform to their coping mechanism (called delusion) they will bash your head in. In comes the thief that realizes he does not have to steal from you anymore. All he has to do is convince you he knows why god struck you with lightning and you will simply give them anything. And if lightning strikes again, all he has to do is tell you it's your fault. But not to worry, give the thief a little more and god will reward your generosity by not striking you with lightning a third time. The person is unlikely to ever get hit a third time so now the feeble mind has proof. (By the way, I'm not an atheist.) How the earth interacts with itself, life, the universe is insanely complicated. Like mr. Dyson said, we're nowhere CLOSE to approximating this system in a model or simulation. And nowhere close does not mean a few years or even a few decades. And it's not simply a matter of faster computers. We'd have to know in detail what goes on inside and underneath the earth's crust to name just one example. We have some idea of what's down there but we DON'T KNOW. A rare but very real huge underwater volcano forming in the Atlantic could change the flow of the Gulf Stream in a matter of months. And the impact on climate would be insanely large. But even if nothing drastic happens, computers won't help because we don't have the technology to feed them accurate data. You can have a computer capable of modeling the earth to a somewhat usable degree probably in the next few decades. But we are extremely unlikely to have the technology to feed it the correct information. Computers double in power every few years. But people mistakenly believe that our other technology does too. It does not. We can't make sufficiently detailed measurements of the inside of the earth, we can't make sufficiently detailed measurements of what our atmosphere is doing at sufficient measurement points. And for those who went from "cloud computing" to the AI hype: we're about at the level of a mouse brain right now. And it draws probably about as much power as a small town trying to beat a mouse. We might be able to get it up to the level of a human brain but that would draw closer to the power of a continent. And it will be smart. But there's this nasty thing called light speed that for a good while cause you to have to wait for the results of it's IQ test for several years. Yes, the climate is changing. Yes, we are part of that change. Yes, we have impressive computers (I program them, and I'm in awe). Yes, we have drilled ice cores. But that tells us probably far less than 1% of what we need to feed in to a somewhat plausible simulation. And at piss poor accuracy. Yes, I LOVE nature, I cry for every square inch of lost rainforest, I hate how we pollute our rivers and oceans. But we're more or less facing a lead wall. An X-Ray can't tell us what's behind it. But we claim that a supercomputer can. All we need to do is feed it a model of the lead wall and it will tell us EXACTLY what's behind it. Because: what's behind it will be our undoing, it will be our fault. That's why it's referred to as religion. We DON'T KNOW. And that makes people uncomfortable. And people will happily pay a price to buy off that uncertainty. Then they're good people, they did all they could. Is it all a giant conspiracy? NO! It's worse. If you're willing to buy off your angst, it's what happens. Somebody will rise up and happily quench your anxiety. WE DON'T KNOW. And the notion that we are anywhere close to knowing by feeding less than 1% of the needed information into a model is objectively insane. We cut down insane amounts of forests, picked the oceans clean for decades and now CO2 is killing the fish? We cut down billions of acres of forest and we're completely stumped when the weather changes? When we get unusually potent storms every now and then, that's CO2? We dump trillions of tons of plastic in to the oceans but NO, CO2! We dump trillions of tons of fertilizers in the ocean through our agriculture and rivers but NO. CO2 is changing the chemistry of the oceans. We dump chemicals on our crops that are specifically designed to kill insects. But NO: climate change is killing the bees. CO2! I'm in no way against researching our impact on climate. But until we stop preferring insanity over uncertainty that's not what we're actually doing. What we're doing now is burning witches and complaining about the smoke.

[@downtownCAIRO]

the Earths changing so pay more Taxes to Big Gov and Al Gor because 'Science'!

[@boffeycn]

@@sonnyburnett9077 What a load of drivel.

@@boffeycn and you are a load of drivel. GTFOOH prat

[@pezzmania]

@@sonnyburnett9077 Mr. Dyson was very clear, he's been out of Climate Science for 30 years and he talks like it. Since then we have developed more advanced technology to analyze the Earth's systems. Climate models ALWAYS, I am mean ALWAYS, have confidence levels for a reason. If you see someone draw a single line and with it claim the IPCC is wrong, you are looking at a quack pretending to know something.

[@thebluedan]

“We don’t know for sure”...that is an intelligent statement. We know next to nothing about how anything works.

[@pablorages1241]

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates

[@RogueBrit]

Even Elon musk admitted that Co2 levels were too low

[@rogeronslow1498]

Who cares?

[@ummdustry5718]

Elon Musk is literally offering millions of dollars for carbon capture technology.

[@stevendellow9505]

He's right in his summing up as he is all along. Things have improved but what we have got is leaders that live to peddle fear.

[@zlatkovuckovic6443]

Constructive dialogue, now that’s refreshing.

[@411American]

Making the world greener " Get a real job instead of a CON job and earn it rather than stealing from fear"

[@billquillin1952]

APPLAUSE. Thank you for this interview! I have followed the Professor for decades !

[@caeserromero3013]

The climate models are like trying to predict the winners of horse races by studying the names of the jockey, and leaving out the horses, their form, or the race track conditions etc etc

[@maryannwhatuira5582]

Thank you Dr.Dyson❤️

[@daemonnice]

For the record, global temperatures have only gone up in NOAH and NASA's climate models, real-world temperatures have not gone up and have not followed the increase in atmospheric Co2 concentrations. Realistically, most places are experiencing longer winters and then there has been snow in the Sahara 4 years in a row. The first time was hailed as a once in a century event. Oops. Can a computer model that fails its predictions in a big way really be doing a good job of helping us understand climate? Think about it. It is one thing if the models did succeed in prediction. Such success would make that a useful model, but even then, not necessarily a truthful model. Ptolemy's geocentric model had a much higher success rate mathematically at plotting and predicting astral movements than Copernicus' heliocentric model, but it was still wrong. So, Mr Dyson's claim that they are good at helping them understand climate seems a little off. Adjusting one thing in a model that does not take into account all factors could well likely lead to misleading results. Models are based on mathematics and mathematics, according to Alfred North Whitehead is an abstraction and does not represent reality. Cosmic rays(high energy particles), which Mr Dyson correctly asserts are a prime mover of energy from the sun have not been included in CMIP models until recently with CMIP6. So, CMIP models do not take into account water vapour which is responsible for 90% of the greenhouse effect and cosmic rays which is responsible for the majority of energy transfer from the sun, how can you claim any benefit from a model that does not take into account these primary factors?

[@millbills300]

Some clouds did something.

[@seanbrossard8178]

NASA was found to be rounding up there data based on the temperatures reported at the airports which need to be accurate to calibrate Plains avionics and engines. Threre temperature for the same days were higher. Than actual measurements recorded at the airports ate the same time.

[@blueodum]

@@seanbrossard8178 How do they adjust for the heat sink effect? I have no doubt they try to adjust, but it introduces yet another element of uncertainty into the data that feeds into the models.

[@ms-jl6dl]

Cosmic rays are not "energy transfer from the sun" they are created by countless explosions all over the universe.

[@Bob_Adkins]

Amen! If we can create models that predict climate 50 years out, why can't we predict rain or storms greater than 5 days out? Probably because we can't do either.

[@Paul-gz5dp]

More CO2 means that plants will grow and other such things that are beneficial. Climate change has been going on since this planet was created, and the level of the sea is many hundreds of feet higher than it was 9,000 years ago. The amount of effect that man has had is small compared to the effects from the sun. We have effected the sea levels by only a few inches so far. I think that it is interesting that the CO2 in the atmosphere lags the increase of temperature in the atmosphere. As it has been shown for the last 350,000 years.

[@VeronicaMist]

THIS is the 23 minutes my soul needed. ❤️ thank you 🙏🏻

[@joeserna5374]

something can’t change the world the world changes it self

[@redlemur7944]

Joe Serna so humans can’t understand science is what you’re saying? In order for humans to create something to destroy the earth they would need to understand science. You’re saying the earth won’t be changed because it changes itself. We can change the earth. It’s science.

[@stevenfoulger6066]

The farmers Almanac uses a formula based on Solar activity.

[@edwardcarberry1095]

As does Dr Piers Corbyn, where he is about 85% accurate.

[@reference2me]

If you want accurate weather predictions ... check the Farmer's Almanac...

[@johndesade126]

@@reference2me It is not aways accurate, as in last winter's weather!

[@shaynefowley5689]

Edward Carberry any sources?

[@johndesade126]

@@shaynefowley5689 www.almanac.com/content/how-accurate-was-old-farmers-almanacs-weather-forecast

[@Spiritof48]

Yes , temperatures has gone up , since the little ice age , but now it seems to stagnate ,despite co2 .

[@e.miller8943]

I think I can help the professor with understanding the motives of the people who protest about climate change. It is money. You can get paid writing about how bad climate change can be. You can get a good university job. You can get a felllowship to study it. On the other hand, if you say climate is a fraud, you can lose your university job, be fired from your climate study job, be accused of not being liberal etc.

[@BalsamorhizaSagittat]

My 1st degree is in Wildlife and as part of those studies way back in the early 70's it included plant biology and botany. That is one of the reasons I strongly question the whole scare of global warming and increased CO2. About 60 million years ago we had the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum no one knows what really triggered it but plant and animal growth was phenomenal, temperatures were like 20 degrees centigrade with no ice at the poles. Then we had the Mid-Miocene climatic optimum roughly 15 million years ago which again saw plant and animal population increases. So warm periods are basically good for flora and fauna it is the cold that is a real killer. But both these events as recorded in our geological history should also tell us that the earth has been there before without us and our current climate is not rare, unprecedented, or man caused. We have an effect but then so does my pet cat. I am not sure which has a greater impact.

[@susanwebster7584]

Brilliant!

[@EighthDayPerlman]

It's not as useful as it may sound to frame the whole question of climate change effects as, "Which helps plants grow more? Warmer and more CO2, or cooler and less CO2?" Just limiting our inquiry to the effect on plants and animals, you're ignoring that most species are quite sensitive to the fine tuning of the atmosphere they live in. You may have more plants in warmer places, but they will skew away from the historical, natural biota, and that's a recipe for large declines in biodiversity, trophic cascades, and extinctions.

[@djlunaticdreyfuss7562]

@@EighthDayPerlman Well said

[@108Marycelestial]

In the Jurassic times they had CO2 at around 2000ppm, I say bring back the Jurassic times so we can enjoy some dinosaur steak.

[@thepope2412]

And during one of the ice ages, co2 levels were calculated to be at 4000ppm.

[@Guitarman7133]

idiot. NO SUCH THING AS CAVEMAN DAYS.

[@jamesdurpington8619]

@@Guitarman7133 Easy there Bible Thumper, you're making us other Christians look bad with your scientific illiteracy.

[@bademoxy]

what would be even better is a bunch of antigun demonstrators getting eaten by a T Rex.

[@williamgeorge1028]

@@thepope2412 If your going to pay for a new bible at least try good info, during Jurassic era over 7000 PPM with a temperature around 21 cel, I'll take a lush green jungle any day over a concrete jungle full of bicycle humping climate changed humanoids

[@Ratter2E]

Starting out in the great depression sure does give a bloke a pretty good measuring stick for today's life , . the under 40's have genuinely had it so good they are looking for reasons, anything to disguise their failure and blame it on someone else.

[@Rayblondie]

Plants desperately need CO2 so carbon must be green whatever they say. Let the plants speak not WEF and the Green Party.

[@ogreunderbridge5204]

I wish this man to become a healthy and still working 200 y.o

[@Ruf-Art-by-Tim]

I Sure am glad I was taught to listen to my Elders......you just might learn a thing or two from experience !

[@Elite7555]

Want to learn about the ether?

[@johnmartin2017]

@eileen MAIZE Carey It is just that the market does not capture externalities. Note though that pollution is not the same as CO2. Something the sneaky IPCC and other government power centers don't want you to notice.

[@andresviveros3994]

The young of today are being brainwashed into thinking that older people are destroying their future when it's not true.

[@MonkPetite]

Awesome interview. It’s not what we do know but what we don’t know.

[@limop20]

watching this in 2023 it is just insanity to what level politicians and establishment have brought this topic. Obviously it is not about saving the earth and humans. It’s sickening