“Life begins at 55, the age at which I published my first book,” he wrote in “From Eros to Gaia,”
Never got his PhD. Taught physics at Cornell.
Thoughts on climate change:
"Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.” He doubted the veracity of the climate models, and he exasperated experts with sanguine predictions they found rooted less in science than in wishfulness: Excess carbon in the air is good for plants, and global warming might forestall another ice age."
“Life begins at 55, the age at which I published my first book,” he wrote in “From Eros to Gaia,”
Never got his PhD. Taught physics at Cornell.
Thoughts on climate change:
"Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.” He doubted the veracity of the climate models, and he exasperated experts with sanguine predictions they found rooted less in science than in wishfulness: Excess carbon in the air is good for plants, and global warming might forestall another ice age."
Lots worth reading in the NYT obituary.