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Title: Top scientist resigns from post – admits Global Warming is a scam
Source: Red, White and Blue News
URL Source: http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=7670
Published: Oct 11, 2010
Author: RWBN
Post Date: 2010-10-11 14:56:03 by Badeye
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Views: 52509
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Top scientist resigns from post – admits Global Warming is a scam Share

As reported by the Gateway Pundit: Top US scientist Hal Lewis resigned this week from his post at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He admitted global warming climate change was nothing but a scam in his resignation letter.

From the Telegraph (because for some reason the Liberal Media here in the U.S don’t like this stuff getting out).

The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emeritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it…

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#3. To: Badeye (#0)

It's not that unusual to see someone who is very bright and talented wander off into "crankhood" (especially in their twilight years). That happened to Linus Pauling and Kerry Mullis (Nobel laureates in chemistry).

More cranks with PhD's can be found here: http://www.catholicintl.com/galileowaswrong/index.html

Now, how do you distinguish cranks from non-cranks? The best way is to see what they've published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. You will want to look at what they've actually published, what journals they've published in (are the journals leading journals, or low-impact "fringe" journals?), and perhaps most importantly, *how many times their work has been cited by other researchers*. That last item is known as the "impact factor".

Scientists like James Hansen, who have published large numbers of articles in leading scientific journals (like Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, etc), and whose research has been cited many times by other researchers, are the real deal.

Scientists like Harold Lewis who have published little or no climate research, who haven't been cited by other climate researchers, and yet make loud public pronouncements about the field in which they've performed no research, can safely be labeled as cranks.

And yes, I read his Lewis' letter -- it contained zero evidence in support of his claim that climate-science is fraudulent. It is nothing more than the ravings of a former scientist now in his declining years. Also note that Lewis' area of specialty is far outside of climate-science. Asking Lewis about climate science would be like consulting your Dentist about open-heart surgery.

go65  posted on  2010-10-11   15:49:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: go65 (#3)

And yes, I read his Lewis' letter -- it contained zero evidence in support of his claim that climate-science is fraudulent.

I guess you skipped over this part when you read the letter:

It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-10-11   19:14:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Wood_Chopper (#22)

It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion.

I'll go to a physicist for answers about climate as soon as I go to a plumber to have my heart checked.

Again, the point here is that Lewis has zero record of accomplishment in the field of climate science.

go65  posted on  2010-10-11   19:40:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: go65 (#25) (Edited)

I'll go to a physicist for answers about climate as soon as I go to a plumber to have my heart checked.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read in my life.

Seriously, if this is what you honestly believe then are you sadly one of the illiterate boneheads that have have made this country 25 out of 30 in terms of science education in the developed world.

The entire universe, planet, atmosphere, etc. is ALL physics.

Climatologist = the weatherman who almost gets nothing right.

You have demonstrated one important reason why America is on the rocks.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-10-11   20:37:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: jwpegler (#30)

The entire universe, planet, atmosphere, etc. is ALL physics.

Who do you go to when you feel ill, a medical doctor or a physicist?

If you want to attack me for seeking out the opinions of climate scientists in matters of climate, be my guest.

go65  posted on  2010-10-11   20:39:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: go65 (#32) (Edited)

Who do you go to when you feel ill, a medical doctor or a physicist?

LOL. What an extraordinarily poor analogy.

To answer your inappropriate question, if I am sick I will see a doctor. If there are are lot of people who are sick, I may consult a biologist.

Back to "climate change"...

The climate of the earth is always changing. We came out of a major ice age tens of thousands of years ago. Did SUVs cause the "warming"? No. We also came out of a minor ice age a few hundred years ago. Were SUVs the culprit? No.

Physics has already explained the warming and cooling cycles the earth has experienced.

This entire global warming scam is all about RED politicians trying to wrap themselves in GREEN in gain power for themselves. Socialism is out of style. Communism is out of style. Fascism is out of style. So, now they are all Greens.

Regardless of what name they call themselves, they are all still evil tyrants.

That's the bottom line.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-10-11   20:55:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: jwpegler (#35)

The climate of the earth is always changing. We came out of a major ice age 20,000 years ago. Did SUVs cause the "warming"? No. We also came out of a minor ice age a few hundred years ago. Were SUVs the culprit? No.

First off, my compliments to you for actually trying to engage in a debate. OK, now to answer your question. Yes, the climate has always changed, and will always change. What is different now is that the only plausible explanation for the accelerated warming over the last 30 years is rising CO2. We know that CO2 is rising, we know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and we know by analyzing CO2 that the bulk of it is coming from human activity. There are simply no other plausible explanations to explain what we've seen over the last 30 years.

Now then, there is much disagreement as to the expected rate of warming and the impact. I've heard everything from minimal change to catastrophic change (e.g. the Venus effect), but again, the disputes over the impact/rate of change don't change the underlying argument - the earth is warming as a result of CO2 accumulation as a result of human activity. That people want to simply dismiss global warming because of politics is disturbing.

Physics has already explained the warming and cooling cycles the earth has experienced.

Again, the only plausible explanation for the accelerated warming over the last 30 years is buildup of atmospheric CO2. There's no other explanation that's viable (feel free to offer one).

This entire global warming scam is all about RED politicians trying to wrap themselves in GREEN in gain power for themselves. Socialism is out of style. Communism is out of style. Fascism is out of style. So, now they are all Greens.

And again, if that's your view then you need to offer up some alternative that explains accelerated warming over the last 30 years.

If you want to simply wave your arms, dismiss the data, and claim it's all a fraud, then as I told wood chucker, there's no point in continuing the discussion.

go65  posted on  2010-10-11   21:02:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: go65 (#37) (Edited)

What is different now is that the only plausible explanation for the accelerated warming over the last 30 years is rising CO2.

Here is one of many articles that I could post from different physicists which demonstrate that why your assertion is incorrect.

The bottom line is that earth wobbles over long periods of time. The wobbles correspond to climate change. Right now we may be at the end of a long warming period and entering a cooling period.

Wobbling Earth Triggers Climate Change

Regular wobbles in the Earth's tilt were responsible for the global warming episodes that interspersed prehistoric ice ages, according to new evidence.

The finding is the result of research led by Russell Drysdale of the University of Newcastle that has been able to accurately date the end of the penultimate ice age for the first time.

The new dates, which appear in the today's edition of Science, show the end of the second last ice age occurring 141,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

Using information gathered from a trio of Italian stalagmites, the research has punched a hole in the prevailing theory that interglacial periods are related to changes in the intensity of the northern hemisphere summer.

Drysdale and colleagues suggest that the Earth emerges from ice ages due in large part to changes in the tilt of the planet in relation to the sun, otherwise known as its obliquity. This affects the total amount of sunlight each hemisphere receives in its respective summer, rather than the peak intensity of the solar radiation during the northern summer.

Sediment on the sea floor contains accurate a record of what happened to the Earth's climate prior to the last ice age. But up until now dating the sediment and the evident climatic changes has not been possible.

Drysdale and colleagues overcome this difficulty by comparing the changes in the sea floor to similar material on the surface that can be accurately dated.

John Hellstrom of the University of Melbourne used a very sensitive mass spectrometer to measure the amount of uranium and thorium contained in samples taken from the three stalagmites in the Italian Antro del Corchia cave to date the material.

jwpegler  posted on  2010-10-11   21:16:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#42. To: jwpegler (#39)

Wobbling Earth Triggers Climate Change

Again, I am agreeing with you that there are a multitude of factors that can, and have caused climate change, but there's no evidence that anything other than CO2 is causing the accelerated warming we've seen over the last 30 years. There is no evidence that the current warming trend is due to wobbling.

However, there is evidence that changes in rotational axis over 40,000 years triggered the ice ages: http://www.livescience.com/environment/050330_earth_tilt.html

Again, my point to you is that there are indeed a multitude of factors that can impact climate. But again, there is no viable explanation at this point that anything other than CO2 buildup is causing the rapid warming we've seen in the last 30 years.

go65  posted on  2010-10-11 21:35:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: jwpegler (#39)

To: go65

Here is one of many articles that I could post from different physicists which demonstrate that why your assertion is incorrect.

Dude... I never figured go65 to be one of the idiot greenies...

He's crazier than a shit-bug.

LOL.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2010-10-11 22:18:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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