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US scientist Hal Lewis resigned from his post at the University of
California after admitting that global warming was a big scam, in
a shocking resignation letter.
From the Telegraph
The following is a letter to the American
Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emeritus of
physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical
Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as
yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight
Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
Indeed, the choice of physics as a
profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence – it
was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain
drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I
chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue,
The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the
outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We
were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest
appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the
presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki
Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I
was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the
oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the
complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the
report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could
there be?
How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
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.
So what has the APS, as an organization,
done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as
the norm, and gone along with it…
I do feel the need to add one note, and
this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s
motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a
simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today
are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue.
I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a
half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say
nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands)
that go with being a member of the club.
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