THE REVOLT OF THE SCIENTISTS AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING

Resignation causing stir,challenges the establishment position on "global warming"

Urgent Agenda ^ | 10-10-10 | William Katz

A distinguished physicist has resigned from the American Physical Society. And most people would reply, "So what?" But the resignation of Professor Emeritus Harold Lewis of the University of California from the prestigious scientific body is causing a stir because it challenges the establishment position on "global warming." Professor Lewis writes:

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.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts describes the resignation as "an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science."

You can find the entire letter here. It is worth reading. Among other things, Prof. Lewis warns of the influence of government money on science, something President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address to the nation in January of 1961. That was the famous "industrial-military complex speech," but only that part is remembered because it has served the purposes of the political left. The warning about government money and its influence on science was forgotten...until now.

We are in the midst of an election campaign, and it's easy to forget that "global warming" is one of the main building blocks of the leftist agenda, which it will pursue regardless of who wins in three weeks. Professor Lewis cannot be put away on a shelf and denigrated as a crackpot. He is a distinguished scientist.

We hope a revolution among scientists is underway. Maybe it's too much to ask for.