Nobel Laureate Resigns Over Global Warming Endorsement.

The News is reporting today that Physicist and Nobel Laureate, Dr. Ivar Giaever, has resigned from the prestigious American Physical Society (APS) over their ringing endorsement of Man-Made Global Warming:


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/?test=latestnews


It seems that Dr Glaever so strongly objects to the use of the word incontrovertible in describing Man-made Global warming "science," that he preferred to leave the APS and remain and lend his prestige to what he considered a misleading statement.  I don't blame him.  In my own field, Criminal Justice, we were taught that words like incontrovertible were so strong that they should only be used when one was so sure of the position taken that it was unimpeachable.  In fact, we were taught that only one finding in Criminal Justice Science was considered incontrovertible, that a perpetrator faced with a potential victim he or she suspected was either armed or capable of defending themselves and willing to do so would move on to another.


The article on fox News links to another at Climate Depot which reprints the entire letter.


DR. Glaever is hardly the only prominent physicist to do the same thing.  A year ago Harold Lewis, professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, resigned was well over the APS white-washing of Climategate.(most people aren't aware that Dr. Mann's credentials are in Physics, not dendocrinology, the field he so famously published on).  Mr. Lewis wrote:

"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."

Although I would echo this opinion, this is a prominent physicist writing the above, not this humble bachelorate in Criminal Justice Science. The whole article in The Telegraph is a good read:

The Telegraph: Global Warming Greatest Pseudoscientifc Fraud according to US Scientist.

Enjoy!