May 12, 2023	INDEX
"Crazy to cut CO2 as it is beneficial to the environment "
Computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it, according to physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Dyson says, “As measured from space, the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide, so it’s increasing agricultural yields, it’s increasing the forests and it’s increasing growth in the biological world, and that’s more important and more certain than the effects on climate.” He acknowledges that human activity has an effect on climate but points out that the non-climate benefits of carbon are overwhelmingly favourable. The Earth is becoming greener (as measured by satellites) and agricultural yields are increasing.
The impact of CO2 on the climate is over estimated and the view that climate change is a disaster is a belief system he could not understand. He compared it to a religion rather than a science. The climate is too complex to make useful predictions from modelling. "CO2 is so beneficial in other (non climate) ways that it would be crazy to reduce it," he said. #carbon #co2 #climate ctm027
INDEX	May 12, 2023 Jonathan Brind