The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn growing in full sunlight in the middle of the day uses up all the carbon dioxide within a meter of the ground in about five minutes. If the air were not constantly stirred by convection currents and winds, the corn would stop growing.
Freeman DysonBoiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
Freeman DysonI grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.
Freeman DysonUnfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
Freeman Dyson