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It didn't take long for J.K. Peterson (Soapbox, Nov. 18) to attack William Gray, Ph.D., about his beliefs on global warming. I wish that Peterson would stick to facts rather than questioning Gray's credentials and labeling him as a political puppet. There are reputable scientists on both sides of this issue that should be heard without ridicule.

Freeman Dyson Debunks Dire Forecasts on Global Warming and Other Tenets

In the absence of audience interruptions, Mr. Dyson had an argument anyway with the scores of people (like Al Gore) who weren’t present to defend their belief in the dire consequences of global warming. (“There’s no accounting for human folly,” Mr. Dyson said when asked about Mr. Gore’s Nobel Prize.) Saying that on a recent trip he and his wife found Greenlanders to be delighted with their warmer climate and increased tourism, Mr. Dyson suggested that representing “local warming by a global average is misleading.” In his comments at both the Nassau Club and Labyrinth, he decried the use of computer modeling to make “tremendously dogmatic” predictions about worldwide trends, without acknowledging the “messy, muddy real world” and the non-climatic effects of increased carbon dioxide. “There is no substitute for widely-conducted field operations over a long time,” he told the Nassau Club audience, citing the “enormous gaps in knowledge and sparseness of observation” that characterize the work of global warming experts.