[AISWorld] Another distinguished scientist speaks out about "the global warming scam"

[Prashant Palvia]

This has very little, if anything, to do with IS.  Looks more like a
political message.  Please do not post such messages.  Thank you.

Prashant Palvia

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Kappelman, Leon <Leon.Kappelman at unt.edu>wrote:

>  The distinguished career of Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics
> at the University of California at Santa Barbara, also includes serving as a
> former member Defense Science Board (DSB), chairman of the DSB study on
> Nuclear Winter, former member of the President's Nuclear Safety Oversight
> Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety, Chairman Risk
> Assessment Review Group, and former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board.
> He recently resigned with the letter below from the American Physical
> Society (APS) after 67 years of membership, including serving as its
> chairman and as a fellow of the society.  His reason, "*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" [emphasis mine].  The entirety of his
> resignation letter can be found at http://courses.unt.edu/kappelman/blog/along with references to hundreds of other scientists who also contest the
> theory of CO2 from humans (or any source) causing climate change to any
> meaningful degree.
>
> Like I tell my students, “Question everything, study the facts, and make up
> your own mind about this and everything else.”
>
> *“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
> atrocities” – Voltaire*
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