Two contrarian voices on anthropogenic global warming

I confess to having no really strong opinion on the subject of anthropogenic global warming.  It’s not a subject on which I’ve read a great deal, and I figure that societies and nations will make whatever decisions they make on the subject without the need of much input from me.  If everything depended on my views about it, I would feel obliged to think and read a great deal on the topic.  But nothing depends on my views about it and, consequently, I don’t feel especially obliged.

That said, I do sometimes tire of having the topic forced upon me as if it were some sort of apocalyptic religious cult, virtually shoved down my throat like a totalitarian ideology, and I do enjoy being somewhat contrarian.  So here are a couple of videos that I happen to have found today, while looking for something else:

Ivar Giaever:  “Nobel Laureate in Physics; ‘Global Warming is Pseudoscience'”

Freeman Dyson: “Freeman Dyson on the Global Warming Alarm 2015”

By the way, the image of the Berner Alpen glacial landscape above was captured by an Expedition 13 crewmember onboard the International Space Station while he was above the Mediterranean Sea between Corsica and Italy.

Three of the higher peaks of the central Alps– the Jungfrau (4,158 meters), the Mönch (4,089 meters), and the Eiger (3,970 meters) — are plainly visible in this photo.  To the east and south of the Jungfrau is the Grosser Aletschgletscher or Great Aletsch Glacier, which is clearly marked by dark medial moraines extending along the glacier’s length parallel to the valley axis.  The moraines are formed from rock and soil debris collected along the sides of three mountain glaciers located near the Jungfrau and Mönch peaks.  As these flowing ice masses merge to form the Aletsch Glacier, the debris accumulates in the middle of the glacier and is carried along the flow direction.   The Brienzersee (Lake Brienz), to the northwest, was formed by the actions of both glacial ice and the flowing waters of the Aare and Lütschine rivers.  It has a maximum depth of 261 meters.

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