Re: [Phys-L] Will APS be the first major scientific institution to reject the global warming 'consensus'?

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

Of course Prof Hal Lewis is a nuclear physicist and I see no credentials in
climate science.  Whether of not the APS should take a position on climate
science is certainly debateable, but in light of the concensus of climate
scientists it certainly should not take a negative position. 

The headline says it all.  The first reference is from a blog that is
obviously written by a denier, so it may not represent what will happen.
Incidentally one of the so called skeptics is actually slightly neutral, and
not a denier.  Another one of the skeptics is a metereologist, not a climate
scientist from what the blog said.  I think it is possibly a tempist in a
hot tea pot.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

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> Strickert, Rick (Consultant)
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> Subject: [Phys-L] Will APS be the first major scientific 
> institution to reject the global warming 'consensus'?
>
> Excerpted from  "American Physical Society Sees The Light: 
> Will It Be The First Major Scientific Institution To Reject 
> The Global Warming 'Consensus'?" 
> (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/20/American
> -Physical-Society-Sees-The-Light-Will-It-Be-The-First-Major-Sc
> ientific-Institution-To-Reject-The-Global-Warming-Consensus):
>
> "The American Physical Society (APS) has signaled a dramatic 
> turnabout in its position on 'climate change' by appointing 
> three notorious [global warming] climate skeptics to its 
> panel on public affairs (POPA).
>
> "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.' 
> [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100058265/u
> s-physics-professor-global-warming-is-the-greatest-and-most-su
> ccessful-pseudoscientific-fraud-i-have-seen-in-my-long-life/]
>
> "Yes the American Physical Society's change of heart is 
> significant but we've a long way to go before that oil tanker 
> turns round. Or, as Churchill might have said:  'Now this is 
> not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it 
> is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.'"
>
> Rick Strickert
> Austin, TX
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