Interestingly enough, in 2005, he was saying worry about climate change was exaggerated, which seemed to please the auto execs among the parents of graduates.
You students are proud possessors of the PhD, or some similar token of academic respectability. You have endured many years of poverty and hard labor. Now you are ready to go to your just rewards, to a place on the tenure track of the university, or on the board of directors of a company.
And here am I, a person who never had a PhD myself and fought all my life against the PhD system and everything it stands for. Of course I fought in vain. The grip of the PhD system on academic life is tighter today than it has ever been. But I will continue to fight against it for as long as I live. In short I am proud to be heretic.
Unfortunately, I am an old heretic. Old heretics don’t cut much ice. What the world needs is young heretics. I am hoping that one or two of you may fill that role. So I will tell you briefly about three heresies that I’m promoting.
The first of my heresies says that all the fluff about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens that believe the numbers predicted by their models. Of course they say I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak.
His other two "heresies" were the "domestication" of biotechnology (including biotech games for children where they "played with real eggs and seeds" and the end of reign of the US as the world's dominant power.
Regardless, he had a long and distinguished career as a creative thinker and the world is poorer for his passing
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