Top Scientist Resigns and Says Global Warming Is A Hoax

[sid]

Check it out:

http://yournewswire.com/top-scientist-resigns-admitting-global-warming-is-a-big-scam/

[oscars]

The American Physical Society (APS) has issued a strongly worded statement in response to a published resignation letter from a prominent member of the society. The letter, written by Harold Lewis, emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara accused the society of benefiting financially from climate-change funding. Addressed to the APS president, Curtis Callan, the letter calls global warming a "scam" and says that "the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it...has carried APS before it like a rogue wave".

Lewis, 87, who has been an APS member for 67 years, has had a distinguished career that includes serving on the US defence science board, the advisory committee on reactor safeguards and the nuclear safety oversight committee. Lewis writes that climate change is "the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist," and that the APS has "accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it." He adds that Princeton University physics department, of which Callan is chair, "would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst."

Callan strongly denies that charge. "Do any members of the Princeton physics department perform research on subjects even remotely related to climate science? No,” Callen told physicsworld.com. “Would a hypothetical physicist engaged in such work be likely to shade the results of his or her work to hew to some "party line" demanded by a funding agency? That would be contrary to the ethical code subscribed to by all scientists I know."

Lewis is also one of the 160 physicists who last year failed to persuade the society to modify its "appallingly tendentious" formal statement on climate change, which it had released in November 2007, to reflect their own doubts about the human contribution to global warming. "Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate." Lewis writes in his letter to Callan. "APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims." In resigning, Lewis says the APS "no longer represents me".
Strong response

In response to Lewis's letter, the APS took the unusual step of issuing a public statement on Tuesday. The society says there is "no truth to Dr Lewis's assertion that APS policy statements are driven by financial gain," adding that the "specific charge that APS as an organization is benefiting financially from climate-change funding is equally false".

"The APS adheres to rigorous ethical standards in developing its statements," the statement says. "Neither the operating officers nor the elected leaders of the society have a monetary stake in [climate-change] funding." The statement adds that, because relatively few APS members conduct climate-change research, the vast majority of the society's members "derive no personal benefit from such research support". APS press secretary Tawanda Johnson told physicsworld.com that the society released the statement to defend its reputation in the face of the accusations.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate physicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, denies Lewis's claim that research in climate change is congruent with financial gain. "People don't get paid to get results," he says. "Funding pays for postdocs, graduate students and equipment." Schmidt adds the issue raised by Lewis is "a manufactured story" to make people believe there is some discontent in the profession.

Lewis does, however, have some support among physicists. "[Lewis] is on target with the big picture," says Princeton physicist Will Happer, a leader of last year's effort to change the APS statement on climate change.

The APS says in response to the "widespread interest expressed by its members" that it will now organize a "topical group" to encourage exchange of information on the physics of climate.

[dogtag]

Oh God, here's another Bruce who obviously gets paid by the word.

"Brevity is the soul of wit"

[leftyo]

other than some common sense, the first big clue is when the greenies changed it from global warming to climate change. when you have to keep changing the name of your cause, you dont have very a good case to sell what your preachin!

[Allen]

Al Gore invented hoax.

[togor]

other than some common sense, the first big clue is when the greenies changed it from global warming to climate change. when you have to keep changing the name of your cause, you dont have very a good case to sell what your preachin!

I thought the Republicans pushed that change in terms.

Anyways, an 87-year old physicist may or may not be up to date in a field (climatology) that is outside his own. His argument seems to be oriented towards sources of funding, which is a familiar topic to scientists. He conveniently ignores the large sums of money that research arms of Petroleum companies have injected into the debate in order to muddy the waters. Like what the Tobacco companies did for years.

A classic example of opinion being mistaken for evidence.

[bruce]

Oh God, here's another Bruce who obviously gets paid by the word.

"Brevity is the soul of wit"

Hum ... someone who never learned to love words ... writing ... reading. Guess that's why there are cartoons!

Seriously, from time to time something can be said briefly. IF whatever that something is can be said briefly, fine. Be brief. Lincoln needed less than 300 words to say something that most agree was well said. On the other hand, if brevity is so witty, then everyone should just love and laugh reading the wit of twits tweeting on Twitter. Sadly, tough always brief, one can seldom say that those twits express much wit about anything when they tweet.

Now as to this particular man ... he may be credible. The web site referenced does not inspire confidence. It's no unlike someone who claims to support the 2nd Amendment coming out to say that they speak for gun owners who agree with left-wing gun grabbers that "reasonable" gun laws need to be passed, etc., etc., etc. Of course the left would applaud such a person and declare that all persons of reason and good will should listen to him. Gun owners of course would characterize such a man as nothing more than another left-wing gun grabber. So it goes with global warming ... climate change ... etc. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

[Fred Pillot]

Climate change is normal. I learned in school in the early 70's of the 125,000 year major cycles and the 12,000 year minor cycles. They used to grow wine grapes in England back when the Romans were up there.

[leftyo]

Climate change is normal. I learned in school in the early 70's of the 125,000 year major cycles and the 12,000 year minor cycles. They used to grow wine grapes in England back when the Romans were up there.

you are correct that climate change is normal, and the change occurs over very long periods of time. i always think about the glaciers that were once where my house is. funny none of the global warming tards can explain how man caused those glaciers to melt. its all about the allmighty dollar, and keeping the ignorant scared.