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Did you encounter any bandits or other bad people that you felt might harm you?

my rather long title (sorry for that)

Yeah, could you have less diseases so we don't have to waste our precious time reading long titles like that? On top of that I had to google "bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome". Have some consideration for others, guy.

Also, how do you explain you are super happy when so many others with 1% of your problems are so unhappy?

comical genius :)

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Freeman Dyson is one of the smartest guys on the planet, a brilliant physicist, not someone to be dismissed lightly.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html

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Dyson is a scientist whose intelligence is revered by other scientists — William Press, former deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and now a professor of computer science at the University of Texas, calls him “infinitely smart.” Dyson — a mathematics prodigy who came to this country at 23 and right away contributed seminal work to physics by unifying quantum and electrodynamic theory — not only did path-breaking science of his own; he also witnessed the development of modern physics, thinking alongside most of the luminous figures of the age, including Einstein, Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Witten, the “high priest of string theory” whose office at the institute is just across the hall from Dyson’s.

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Not a lightweight or a dilettante.

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He doesn't believe that the rise in CO2 is necessarily bad.

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Dyson agrees with the prevailing view that there are rapidly rising carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere caused by human activity. To the planet, he suggests, the rising carbon may well be a MacGuffin, a striking yet ultimately benign occurrence in what Dyson says is still “a relatively cool period in the earth’s history.” The warming, he says, is not global but local, “making cold places warmer rather than making hot places hotter.” Far from expecting any drastic harmful consequences from these increased temperatures, he says the carbon may well be salubrious — a sign that “the climate is actually improving rather than getting worse,” because carbon acts as an ideal fertilizer promoting forest growth and crop yields. “Most of the evolution of life occurred on a planet substantially warmer than it is now,” he contends, “and substantially richer in carbon dioxide.” Dyson calls ocean acidification, which many scientists say is destroying the saltwater food chain, a genuine but probably exaggerated problem. Sea levels, he says, are rising steadily, but why this is and what dangers it might portend “cannot be predicted until we know much more about its causes.”

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He is as qualified as anyone to understand the science behind climate change. Are you aware of any climate scientists responding specifically to Dyson and his criticisms? What did they have to say?