“FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country’s most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming ‘out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned,’ as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. . . .
IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO that Dyson began publicly stating his doubts about climate change. Speaking at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, Dyson announced that ‘all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated.’ . . .
A particularly distressed member of that public was Dyson’s own wife, Imme, who, after seeing [Al Gore’s] film in a local theater with Dyson when it was released in 2006, looked at her husband out on the sidewalk and, with visions of drowning polar bears still in her eyes, reproached him: ‘Everything you told me is wrong!’ she cried.
‘The polar bears will be fine,’ he assured her.” (Read more from nytimes.com)