Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/05/freeman-dyson-as-remembered-by.html
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Dyson was a genius physicist and mathematician, but his views on climate change were disturbing at best.
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I’m not going to defend Dyson’s views, but urge those who want to know why this great man thought weird things to go to a source. Unquestionably Dyson was worried about sustainable world questions; e.g. check out his discussion of “ice ponds” here.
I was lucky enough to dine with him for several nights at a “festival della matematica” we both spoke at, and he was absolutely delightful. I am grateful he lived as long as he did, and wrote as much as he did.
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I read the headline as “remembered by Bill O’Reilly” and thought ‘Hoo, boy.’
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It’s worth mentioning Kenneth Brower’s “The Starship and the Canoe”, which is about both Freeman (and Project Orion) and George his son (and his kayak building).
I can’t remember if I’d read of Project Orion before that, but it’s certainly in the book, which I got in paperback in Boston in Feb 1980, forty years ago. Oddly, I’ve only seen a used copy of the book once, just a few years ago.
George even intersects with the early days of Greenpeace, so I assume people I used to know knew him.
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