Re: [Phys-L] Will BreitBart be first to Poo-hoo Global-Warming? (was: Will APS be the first major...)

[brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

If I may observe: transmitting news of a scientific consensus reversal 
would come better from a scientific, rather than a political medium?

Brian Whatcott    Altus OK


On 3/21/2014 12:25 PM, Strickert, Rick (Consultant) wrote:
> 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-Scientific-Institution-To-Reject-The-Global-Warming-Consensus):
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> "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).
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> "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/us-physics-professor-global-warming-is-the-greatest-and-most-successful-pseudoscientific-fraud-i-have-seen-in-my-long-life/]
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> "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.'"
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> Rick Strickert
> Austin, TX
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