i'm pleased to have freeman dyson back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: i'll get to this in a moment but you really stirred them up when you talk about global warming, don't you. >> so, that article, of course, is totally misleading. global warming is a very smaller part of my concern. the author is a very fine writer. >> rose: he is, indeed. >> but it is mostly fiction rather than fact. >> rose: how can a very fine writer, write fiction rather than fact. >> he had his agenda which wasn't mine. >> rose: what was his agenda? >> his agenda was to write a piece about global warming. >> rose: right. >> he told me he was going to do a profile of me, and it was-- he twisted it into a story about global warming, which is really-- i don't claim to be an expert on that subject. i'm not an activist, and i certainly am not an appropriate person to be a political activist. so it gave, i think other a very misleading view. however, i mean, the pictures are beautiful, and so i can't complain. ( laughter ) >> rose: it's like your tie. you

how did freeman dyson, leral intellectual, prlem solver wind upnfuriating the vironmentalists? we'll ask th and more. m pleased to have freen dyson ba at this table. welcome. >>hank you. rose: i' get to this in a moment but you really stirred themp when you talk aut obal warming, don you. >> so, at article, of urse, is totally misleadg. obal warming is a very smaller part of my concern. the thor is a very fine writer >> rose: he is, indeed. >> but it is mostly fiction rather than fact. >> rose: howan aery fine writer, write fiction rather than fact. >> he had hisgenda which wasn mine. rose: what was his agenda? >> his agenda was to write a piece about global warming. rose: right. he told me he was going to do a profile of me and it was-- he twisd it into a story about global warming, which is really-- i don't claim to bean exrt on that subject. i'm not an activist,and certainly amot an appropriate person to be apolitical activi. so it gave, i think other a very misleading view. however, i mean, the pictures are betiful, and so i can't complain ( laughter ) >> re: it's like ur ti

. >> rose: freeman dyson is he. he has spent a lifetime grappling th some of the toughest pblems in expeen beyond. as a young physicist he received worldwide regnition. he has become a besselling authoron topic from biotechnogy to extraterrestrial televion. he has emergeed as a critic of climate change in march, the "neyork times" priled him in anrticle called, "the globing wming her tech". howid freeman dyson, libal intellectual, probm solver wind up iuriating the enronmentalists? we'll ask that and more. i'pleased to have freema dyson backt thisable. welcome. >> tnk you. >>ose: i'llet to this in a moment but you really stirred them uwhen you talk abo glal warming, don't you. >> so, th article, of cose, is totally misleadin glal warmg is a very smaller part of my concern. the auor is a very fine writer. >> rose: he is, indeed. but it isostly fiction rather than ft. >> rose:ow can a very fine writer write fiction rather than fact. >> he had his agenda which sn't mine. >> rose: what was his agenda? >> his agenda was