Chipping At The Dyson Tree

I've enjoyed the latest Real Climate post--Few sights afford more innocent merriment than a catechist  defending his text  to the limit of his rhetorical ability , as when David Archer  ( surely no relation of the scandalous Lord Jeffrey ) , lets fly  four points  at Freeman Dyson's recent piece in the New York Review Of Books :

1."if the trees could simply be persuaded to drop diamonds instead of leaves, repairing the damage to the atmosphere could be fast, "

Since when did  charcoal become thermodynamically less stable than diamond? If the guilelessly visionary  Freeman has left something out, it's the risk of forest fires

In 2. the problem is Archer's own selective memory:
" Why is it that Dyson’s remarkably creative powers of vision (carbon-eating trees for example) fail to come up with alternatives to the crude and ugly process of burning coal to generate electricity?"

Er, David, the Dyson I recall is perhaps the most eloquent and astute advocate of advanced  nuclear power.


Anachronism bites back in item  3
. : "when the time scales start to reach hundreds and thousands of years, the people who pay in the future are not the same as the ones who benefit now.."

Just so. Given what science does for technology, and technology for economics, expect them to be thinner and richer ,  independent of what the environment does to evolution.

4. " I often find myself contemptuous of efforts to misrepresent science to a lay audience.. I’ve got kids at home whose future I worry about."

On that base note , the dueling tuba concert continues.  Too bad the kids have to listen. And that their parents failed to read Dyson's 1977 article :

CAN WE CONTROL THE CARBON DIOXIDE
IN THE ATMOSPHERE?

Download Dyson_Energy_1977.pdf

As to freeman waxing visionary, here is his major contribution to future Arbor Day celebrations

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.orionsarm.com/eg/o/Orwood_Forest.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.orionsarm.com/eg/o/Or-Ot.html&h=360&w=480&sz=34&hl=en&start=2&sig2=RZ_EkuQrAqHke64vo0qUIg&tbnid=5Eyg4LwKPWXEwM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=129&ei=uN89SPHtOYTGetTMnccN&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDyson%2Btree%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG

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