Washington, Oct 12: An American professor, Harold Lewis, has branded global warming as “the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud” he has ever seen.
(His temperature might have risen a little higher had he got a glimpse of this “communication strategy” for alarmists (PDF). I’m sure you know the drill… don’t scare the bejeezus out of children, etc.)
The Professor, 87, described his “revulsion” at last year’s leaked “Climategate” emails which appeared to show scientists at East Anglia’s world-leading Climate Research Unit rigging evidence in favour of man-made climate change.
(You can still get the emails and data files here. (It’s a big file, I’m warning you). Alternatively, you can get up to speed with this hilarious parody that Michael Mann (through his lawyers) unsuccessfully tried to get off the Internet.)
Lewis branded man-made climate change a “scam” driven by “trillions of dollars” which has “corrupted” scientists, making the remarks after formally resigning from the American Physical Society (APS).
He claims that the APS, the society for America’s top physicists, has refused to engage in proper scientific debate about climate change and ignored climate skeptics.
He compared the APS now to the organization he joined almost 70 years ago which he said was “much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood”.
“How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth and the money flood has become the raison d’etre of much physics research,” the Daily Express quoted Lewis, as saying.
“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,” he added.
Back in Australia, now that the on-off-on again carbon price scam, oops I meant to say BIG NEW TAX ON EVERYTHING, is back on the table, and Australians brace themselves for skyrocketing electricity bills, we all might need a bit of this foot-tapping, cheer-me-up kinda Minnesota singalong:
MSM will try to keep this quiet just like last week’s global warming scandal.
If you aren’t familiar with the 10:10 dust up, see the videos below.
While watching the first one, ask yourself if it’s sincere or if 10:10 is being pranked on by skeptics.
Keep watching until you’re sure, and then watch more.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7C79DEF1EE25E880
Note: the resignations of Chris Landsea and Roger A Pielke SR. both hint at conspiracy.
Landsea resigned because of an unethical press conference that was likely used by Al Gore as a green light to build his movie around Hurricane Katrina.
Pielke resigned because while lead author for a major climate report, scientists worked behind his back to undermine him. These incidents are well known and not hard to research.
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Even if you are familiar with the 10:10 thing, there’s a variety of over the top eco stuff in the playlist.
Howdy, thanks for stopping by. I am aware of the 10:10 stuff, isn’t the founder someone called Frannie Armstrong who preaches against flying except when she wants to fly to the US to launch her documentary…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cvK9vxA6M&feature=player_embedded
Yes, she also likes blueberries.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/11/it-was-the-blueberries-wot-dun-it/#comment-505082
So I’ve heard. Out of season too, flown into her local store on fuel-guzzling, polluting planes… Sometimes I swear the world is crazy and green is the new religion.
Religion is passed on by the indoctrination of children, there is a lot of that shown in the playlist above.
The Cap and Trade Bedtime story for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXdUW3-7Qyk&p=7C79DEF1EE25E880. This one has a spoof made of it as well.
I believe that it’s socially unacceptable for the scientists to tell the whole truth about climate science, that’s a big part of the problem.
Hello again, when it comes to science and this particular topic, I think it’s fair to say you should just follow the money – in the millions of dollars in government grants – that lead straight to Jones, Mann et al. Sadly, the skeptics (who play an important role in science since they challenge any theory or hypothesis in search of the irrefutable truth) miss out on the financial incentive to be a “believer”. I think some very honourable skeptics have tried to be heard – through blogs and some excellent videos you can access on YouTube mostly – because there has been a deliberate attempt to silence them in science journals, as the climategate emails revealed. You know, once I emailed Kevin Rudd, I asked him when global warming would arrive since it was freezing in Melbourne at the time. I never got a response. Kind of sums up what it’s like to challenge the hypothesis…