Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever Quits APS over Stand on Global Warming

[BladeVenom]

The blind faith of the APS in Global Warming, and that they will not even allow debate on it, has caused another prominent scientist to quit.

"In the APS, it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"

"The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period."

"Moreover, global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money,"

-- http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/214...x-dissent-nobel-prize-winner-physicist-re.htm

Reminds me of Harold Lewis, the Professor of Physics at the University of California, who quit last year who said, "Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life."

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

A lot of "deniers" are physicists....I wonder why?

 

[jackschmittusa]

It was my understanding that he quit over the use of the word "incontrovertible", not that he denies climate change is occurring.

Not a huge story imho.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

It was my understanding that he quit over the use of the word "incontrovertible", not that he denies climate change is occurring.

Not a huge story imho.

There's only "true believers" and "deniers"...get with the program!

 

[fskimospy]

A lot of "deniers" are physicists....I wonder why?

The overwhelming majority of physicists accept global warming....I wonder why?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

The overwhelming majority of physicists accept global warming....I wonder why?

As do I, Dr. Einstein.

 

[BladeVenom]

The overwhelming majority of physicists accept global warming....I wonder why?

The overwhelming majority also support getting themselves research money.

 

[soundforbjt]

Some amount of scientists\physicists, etc will always disagree in the hopes they're proven right. More credit & money for them if they are.

 

[BoberFett]

Science is dead when it comes to global warming. It has reached dogma status.

 

[sarsipias1234]

Most of my professors in physics classes believe the problem too complex to predict any future outcome.

Just look at the weather for example. We can only forcast out so far with any sort of accuracy even with today's math and computer science.

How could we possibly know what is going to happen with any sort of accuracy when you take into account the multitude of variables over long periods of time.

We can't tell for sure it will rain in two days yet people say they can predict the earth will warm in decades! This is illogical thinking.

A lot of variables are unkown as we do not yet understand fully the mechanisms of earth's dynamics internally or externally.

The earth's core is the most obvious unkown variable.

 

[woolfe9999]

The overwhelming majority also support getting themselves research money.

Scientists get research money for everything they research. Why is it suspicious in the case of climate research but not any other area?

 

[bfdd]

Most of my professors in physics classes believe the problem too complex to predict any future outcome.

Just look at the weather for example. We can only forcast out so far with any sort of accuracy even with today's math and computer science.

How could we possibly know what is going to happen with any sort of accuracy when you take into account the multitude of variables over long periods of time.

We can't tell for sure it will rain in two days yet people say they can predict the earth will warm in decades! This is illogical thinking.

A lot of variables are unkown as we do not yet understand fully the mechanisms of earth's dynamics internally or externally.

The earth's core is the most obvious unkown variable.

We aren't allowed to question it. I say this all the time, but since I'm not getting grant money to go do climate research no one will listen. There's evidence we have no clue what the fuck we're talking about because we haven't got a damn prediction right, we keep discovering new data points and there is a huge segment who refuses to acknowledge any dissenting opinion(the AGW kooks). Pathetic shit is some people on these forums actually championed the "consensus" while trying to tell us to believe scientists lols. nothing scientific about a consensus morons.

 

[Craig234]

The overwhelming majority also support getting themselves research money.

LOL.

The scientists I want deciding the issue should not have any money!

 

[sarsipias1234]

Albert Einstein saw this corruption of our Universities back in 1949.

Here is a quote from Why Socialism: http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism

"The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

LOL.

The scientists I want deciding the issue should not have any money!

They are able to get more money if they say it has relevance to global warming. There is a conflict of interest between truth and funding.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

This "so many scientists support global warming for the money" argument doesn't even make any sense. Given all the financial interest in disproving/denying global warming scientists would certainly have access to far more study money by taking a negative stance.

 

[Craig234]

They are able to get more money if they say it has relevance to global warming. There is a conflict of interest between truth and funding.

Well, let's get rid of all scientists, end all funding, they're all liars, so it's useless. There's not a thing we can do about the "conflict of interest".

How many innocent people have been denied the health benefits of smoking because of these asshole liars' corruption?

 

[ElFenix]

Scientists get research money for everything they research. Why is it suspicious in the case of climate research but not any other area?

well considering it's basically impossible to research without getting money, your first statement is a tautology.

 

[bfdd]

Craig, what a perfect example of a shitty consensus lols

 

[JSt0rm]

Scientists get research money for everything they research. Why is it suspicious in the case of climate research but not any other area?

Because it goes against his belief system.

 

[randomrogue]

The science behind global warming is not there. You can't take ~100 years of data and try to draw reasonable conclusions about the Earth's temperature. We simply don't know. It's a guess. If you look at huge time frames of the Earth you see that it is sometimes hot and sometimes cold. It's the equivalent of trying to calculate the average speed of a 20 mile race by only measuring 2 seconds at the end. With that said most people would rather be safe than sorry and start changing our behavior. I wish they would just say that instead of trying to force dogma (that word will work here) down our throat.

 

[Jaskalas]

It was my understanding that he quit over the use of the word "incontrovertible", not that he denies climate change is occurring.

Not a huge story imho.

You failed to even read the OP.

"The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period."

 

[Hacp]

Its funny I find politicians, lawyers, and hippies all think global warming is true, yet the PHD engineers who work for oil companies don't think its a problem we need to worry about. Who would you rather believe? Al Gore or PHD engineers and scientists?

 

[Matthiasa]

The PHD working for the oil companies is not a good source for that, nor are politicians.

 

[Hacp]

The PHD working for the oil companies is not a good source for that, nor are politicians.

Yet PHDs working for grants to prove that global warming is true is a good source of information?