American Physical Society Moves Toward Rejection of Man-made Global Warming

“The American Physical Society (APS) has signaled a dramatic turnabout in its position on ‘climate change’ by appointing three notorious climate skeptics to its panel on public affairs (POPA). They are: Professor Richard Lindzen, formerly Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a highly regarded physicist who once described climate change alarmism on The Larry King Show as ‘mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.’ John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who has written: ‘I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.’ Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, a former Warmist (and still a self-described ‘luke warmer’) who has infuriated many of her more extremist colleagues by defending skeptics and by testifying to the US House Subcommittee on the Environment that the uncertainties in forecasting climate science are much greater than the alarmists will admit. As Anthony Watts has noted, this is news guaranteed to make a Warmist’s head explode. The reason it’s so significant is that it comes only three years after one of the APS's most distinguished members--Professor Hal Lewis--resigned in disgust at its endorsement of what he called ‘the global warming scam.’ ... [In his resignation letter, Lewis identified money as the root of the ‘Global Warming Consensus,’ saying,] ‘There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club.’ [He described] global warming as ‘the greatest and most successful pseudo-scientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.’”

(“American Physical Society Sees the Light,” Breitbart.com, Mar. 20, 2014)

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