New York Times Magazine on Freeman Dyson, Climate Change "Skeptic"

What is up with baseball and climate change denial? First we had George Will: Baseball lover, climate change denier. And now we've got a writer named Nicholas Dawidoff, whose Wiki bio suggests writing about baseball to be his chief area of expertise, but who has just waded into a minefield with a sympathetic profile of climate change skeptic Freeman Dyson in the New York Times Magazine. (Joe Romm detonates the ground beneath Dawidoff here.) Now obviously, there's no real correlation between liking baseball and denying global warming...but postulating one is about as scientifically defensible as many forms of climate skepticism today. In Dawidoff's piece, Dyson comes off as a classic contrarian, sounding off late in life. A journalist with a scientific background would know how important it is to take such people with a grain of salt--no matter how distinguished their scientific work may be in other areas. Dawidoff, though, ...