Top Scientist Resigns Admitting Global Warming Is A Big Scam

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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…

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. 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.
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http://yournewswire.com/top-scientist-resigns-admitting-global-warming-is-a-big-scam/

Doesn't sound like your usual climate change denialism... :erm:
 
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I would rather like to know what the trillions of dollars are influencing by pushing global warming? I thought all the money was in fossil fuels?
 
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TooFastTim said:
It's a pretty undignified rebuttal. Attacking (unconvincingly IMO) the man and not the message. Fairly typical of the pro-global warming mob.

We live in interesting times.
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It addressed the substance of the letter (what little substance there was) in fairly intricate detail, so I'm not sure what you mean by this.
 
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I would rather like to know what the trillions of dollars are influencing by pushing global warming? I thought all the money was in fossil fuels?
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Also. If it is a scam, it must be the most beneficial to the scammees (sic) of all time. Scam me into some cleaner energy, please...where do I deposit my money?
 
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...-world-leaders-fooled-fake-global-warming-dat

Dr John Bates' disclosures about the manipulation of data behind the so-called 'Pausebuster' paper is the biggest scientific scandal since 'Climategate' in 2009 when, as Britain's Daily Mail reported, thousands of leaked emails revealed scientists were trying to block access to data, and using a 'trick' to conceal embarrassing flaws in their claims about global warming.

Britain's Mail on Sunday today revealed astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.

A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

The report claimed that the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world’s media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.

But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data.
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I somehow see this one being harder to sweep away under the carpet...
 
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Neoprod said:
Also. If it is a scam, it must be the most beneficial to the scammees (sic) of all time. Scam me into some cleaner energy, please...where do I deposit my money?
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No, you're not a scammee. You're what Lenin called the intellectual class - Useful Idiot. ;)

More seriously, notwithstanding the hundreds of billions in taxpayer-sourced "climate research funding", the real payoff is in furthering the political, economic, and social agendas that just happen coincidentally to intersect with those of the self-styled progressivists, the very people who happen to earmark taxpayer money for the climate research industry.

In other words, a mutual w-nk: We the politicians give you the climate scientists the money to come up with the "science" that we can then use to frighten people into more socialism and state control. That way you get what you want, and we get what we want, which is perpetual political hegemony. And everyone else pays for it.
 
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Arthur said:
No, you're not a scammee. You're what Lenin called the intellectual class - Useful Idiot. ;)

More seriously, notwithstanding the hundreds of billions in taxpayer-sourced "climate research funding", the real payoff is in furthering the political, economic, and social agendas that just happen coincidentally to intersect with those of the self-styled progressivists, the very people who happen to earmark taxpayer money for the climate research industry.

In other words, a mutual w-nk: We the politicians give you the climate scientists the money to come up with the "science" that we can then use to frighten people into more socialism and state control. That way you get what you want, and we get what we want, which is perpetual political hegemony. And everyone else pays for it.
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With the distinct possibility that there is an actual problem that we'll end up ignoring because of a bunch of corrupt incompetent c-nts.
 
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With the distinct possibility that there is an actual problem that we'll end up ignoring because of a bunch of corrupt incompetent c-nts.
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I mean it's already happening.

I can't remember which coastal city it is in the US but I seem to think it was Florida somewhere, where they are building dykes and lifting the general area around the coastal Zone because the water is rising and set to flood the existing are in the next 10 years.

With literal effects like that I'm not sure how you can just deny it.

Even if global warming isn't the accurate cause for the climate change phenomenon the effect/result remains the same.
 
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Oh, the planet might well be warming. Never denied that.

But I simply don't believe we humans have anything significant to do with it. IF it's warming, any putatively preventive action will be directly proportional to our agency in causing it, which is to say pretty close to zero.

It'll warm anyway, whether we act or not.

But if we follow the politicians' agenda, we'll cramp and limit the lives of billions for many generations'.
 
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Arthur said:
No, you're not a scammee. You're what Lenin called the intellectual class - Useful Idiot. ;)

More seriously, notwithstanding the hundreds of billions in taxpayer-sourced "climate research funding", the real payoff is in furthering the political, economic, and social agendas that just happen coincidentally to intersect with those of the self-styled progressivists, the very people who happen to earmark taxpayer money for the climate research industry.

In other words, a mutual w-nk: We the politicians give you the climate scientists the money to come up with the "science" that we can then use to frighten people into more socialism and state control. That way you get what you want, and we get what we want, which is perpetual political hegemony. And everyone else pays for it.
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I need you to explain this further. Big business is all about making money, regardless of the consequences to the environment. Now, how does one wanting to protect the environment, and getting funding to do so, promote socialism and state control?
 
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Arthur said:
Oh, the planet might well be warming. Never denied that.

But I simply don't believe we humans have anything significant to do with it. IF it's warming, any putatively preventive action will be directly proportional to our agency in causing it, which is to say pretty close to zero.

It'll warm anyway, whether we act or not.

But if we follow the politicians' agenda, we'll cramp and limit the lives of billions for many generations'.
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Interesting. For arguments sake, lets say you are right that human beings have no effect on the planet.

So the next question is, what do you mean by the politicians agenda will "cramp and limit the lives of billions for many generations"?
 
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Arthur said:
Oh, the planet might well be warming. Never denied that.

But I simply don't believe we humans have anything significant to do with it. IF it's warming, any putatively preventive action will be directly proportional to our agency in causing it, which is to say pretty close to zero.

It'll warm anyway, whether we act or not.

But if we follow the politicians' agenda, we'll cramp and limit the lives of billions for many generations'.
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I actually think that if the planet is warming that reducing the amount of atmospheric CO2 as an active exercise would regulate the global climate.

But regarding the cramping and limiting, that's already unfolding before our eyes. A century ago you could invest the energy equivalent of 1 barrel of oil to get 100 barrels of oil out of the ground. Now it's closer to 9 barrels from that 1 barrel. Exponential debt growth and Keynesian neoliberalism has been used over the last 30 years to attempt to hide this thermodynamic truth from the eyes of the masses.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatsp...sources-get-costlier-to-extract/#7c861eb75b6c
 
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