Motus Mentis

Not long ago the great physicist Freeman Dyson wrote an introduction to a report on the beneficial aspects of higher carbon dioxide levels. In it he asked:

The people who are supposed to be the experts and who claim to understand the science are precisely the people who are blind to the evidence. That to me is the central mystery of climate science. It is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that the whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?

He continues:

Indur Goklany has assembled a massive collection of evidence to demonstrate two facts. First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial. I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

Read more here. See also Dr. Dyson’s remarks from a decade ago, as noted here.

Next, here’s Jordan Peterson being asked if “Climate Change” will be the catastrophic problem that finally causes Left and Right to come together, at last, to Do Something. His answer: “No.” Here’s why.

Finally, NASA tells us that we should expect not warming, but cooling, as the Sun enters a quiet period. In a post about this three years ago, I recommended to all of you a book called The Neglected Sun, which describes in meticulous detail the primary role of the Sun in controlling the Earth’s climate (something that seems stubbornly to be ignored by climate alarmists). I recommend it to you still.