Emeritus Professor of Physics resigns over AGW FRAUD!

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

UC, Santa Barbara physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’

Harold Lewis,Emeritus Professor of Physics,
UC, Santa Barbara resigns.

“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.”

.......When can we schedule the FUNERAL????

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Anthony Watts describes it thus:

This is 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.

It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).

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.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

If you can be on the right side of this issue, dixie, you should be on the right side of all the "gobalization is good for americans" propaganda. But for some reason, you remain imbecilic on that front.

 

[christiefan915]

UC, Santa Barbara physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’

Harold Lewis,Emeritus Professor of Physics,
UC, Santa Barbara resigns.

“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.”

.......When can we schedule the FUNERAL????

Was it a real letter... or not?

Professor Emeritus Harold Warren Lewis of University of California Santa Barbara’s Institute of Theoretical Physics has apparently decided to resign from the American Physical Society, because it appears he thinks the Science of Global Warming is a “scam” :-

http://climateprogress.org/2010/10/11/hal-lewis-resigns-from-the-american-physical-society/

By the way, this gentleman is not the same as the other theoretical physicist, also called Harold W. Lewis, of Duke University, who died in the year 2000, just before you ask :-

http://www.phy.duke.edu/history/DistinguishedFaculty/HaroldLewis/

I have three questions :-

1. Why now ?

Why has Professor Lewis decided to break with the American Physical Society at this moment precisely ? Or was the timing of this “resignation” carefully chosen ?

It seems likely that Professor Lewis was not altogether happy about the Science of Global Warming for some years. After all, he participated in the “TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING” Open Letter to the Congress of the United States of America of 1st July 2009 :-

http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-...s-you-are-being-decieved-about-global-warming

(Note : co-signed by Professor S. Fred Singer).

Professor Lewis been a member of the American Physical Society for a number of decades. So why resign now ? And what for ? What possible reason can have arisen recently, or may be about to happen, that could have forced his hand ?

2. Why does Harold Lewis’ resignation letter read like it was written by somebody else ?

Hal Lewis’ normal style of speech can be read in a transcript of an interview with the American Institute of Physics on 6th July, 1986 :-

http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!4742!0&profile=newcustom-icos

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4742.html

The style of the resignation letter just recently published with Harold Lewis’ name on it is very informal. Yet, for something seemingly written by Professor Lewis in a conversational style, it is chock-full of sarcastic, sardonic remarks, the kind of device that really isn’t found in the 1986 interview, where Hal remarks on his position as the chair of a top secret advisory group :-

“The important thing in running JASON is to have the respect of the members, because if they don’t respect you, you can really get into trouble.”

Throughout his career, which spanned the academic, commercial and political worlds, he would have needed to use extra-diplomatic language, something that this recent letter of resignation doesn’t demonstrate.

Simple textual analysis suggests he didn’t write this letter of resignation.

3. What is his health like ?

What is Professor Lewis’ current state of health ?

As it says in the AIP interview :-

Aaserud: “You were born in New York City on the 1st of October, 1923.”
Lewis: “That is correct.”

Which would put him currently in his late eighties. Is he perhaps unwell ? Has he seen this document that he is supposed to have written ? Does he even know this letter of resignation has been written, in his name, but quite probably not in his normal style ?

This looks surprisingly like political ghostwriting, of the kind that allegedly tripped up Roger Revelle :-

http://www.desmogblog.com/the-deniers-the-world-renowned-scientist-who-got-al-gore-started

See the comments by Justin Lancaster here :-

http://www.desmogblog.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-robert-c-balling

Who is Justin Lancaster ? Somebody who tried to stand up for the views of Roger Revelle :-

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/04/if-richard-lindzen-shows-up-at-your.html

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“…Justin Lancaster, Revelle’s graduate student, alleged that Revelle was “hoodwinked” by Singer into adding his name to the article and “he was intensely embarrassed that his name was associated” with it and charged that Singer’s actions were “unethical”. Under threat of lawsuit by Singer, Lancaster recanted his statement, but years later has reiterated his charges and withdrawn his retraction…”

In conclusion, the letter of resignation from Harold Lewis may show us the ideological DNA of Fred Singer. Or it may not. It might be a callous hoax by someone much younger and with far less finesse.

Something that James Delingpole would possibly find it hard to detect, despite his enormous skill with the English language :-

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/j...scientific-fraud-i-have-seen-in-my-long-life/

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Physics, not climatology.

 

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Physics, not climatology.

yeah, those physicists just aren't intelligent enough to comprehend the data behind climatology... right water?

Do tell us... what technical background does one need to understand the data behind climatology water?

 

[Bfgrn]

Hey Dix, can you say 'tempest in a teapot'?

 

[Bfgrn]

Physics, not climatology.

Watermarx...don't forget, you're talking to people who believe:

THESE are the entities that fund the truth on climate change and our environment...

And THESE are the experts...

 

[apple0154]

Anthony Watts describes it thus:

This is 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.

It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).

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.

Shame on you, Dixie! Assuming the letter is legitimate we have to consider the man's age as noted in Christiefan915's post, #4. He was born in 1923 making him 87 years old.

In his resignation letter he writes, "When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler..."

I'm sure it was and it appears the gentleman had difficulty "keeping up". There is no need to humiliate him by publicly posting his resignation letter. Sometimes older folks have difficulty gracefully surrendering to the advance of age. I know I have cursed under my breath about gals having longer legs today and can run faster when chased but, alas, it's my speed which has declined.

 

[christiefan915]

Shame on you, Dixie! Assuming the letter is legitimate we have to consider the man's age as noted in Christiefan915's post, #4. He was born in 1923 making him 87 years old.

In his resignation letter he writes, "When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler..."

I'm sure it was and it appears the gentleman had difficulty "keeping up". There is no need to humiliate him by publicly posting his resignation letter. Sometimes older folks have difficulty gracefully surrendering to the advance of age. I know I have cursed under my breath about gals having longer legs today and can run faster when chased but, alas, it's my speed which has declined.

:lol:

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Yes, I am sure this Emeritus Professor of Physics is just a senile old man who doesn't know what he is saying. He probably doesn't even remember he wrote the letter of resignation! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fraud and corruption he has witnessed in recent years, he probably just imagined all that as well.

You people amaze me with your spinning abilities!

 

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Shame on you, Dixie! Assuming the letter is legitimate we have to consider the man's age as noted in Christiefan915's post, #4. He was born in 1923 making him 87 years old.

In his resignation letter he writes, "When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler..."

I'm sure it was and it appears the gentleman had difficulty "keeping up". There is no need to humiliate him by publicly posting his resignation letter. Sometimes older folks have difficulty gracefully surrendering to the advance of age. I know I have cursed under my breath about gals having longer legs today and can run faster when chased but, alas, it's my speed which has declined.

Apple, for God's sake man, you are displaying an extraordinary amount of ageism here. It's interesting how there has been no response from either the APS or the UCSB. If you doubt his credentials or his sanity then you can always try contacting him at hlewis@physics.ucsb.edu

http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/index.php

 

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I just sent this to Hal Lewis and he replied within 10 minutes, not bad for somebody portrayed as being senile.

From: hal lewis <hlewis@physics.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Re: Resignation Letter
To: "Tom Prendergast"
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 10:15 PM

It is mine.

Hal

On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Tom Prendergast wrote:

Hi Harold,

You don't know me, but I have been totally dismayed at the level of spin generated by your resignation letter to the APS. There have been many that have displayed an extraordinary ageism in response to your letter. Can I humbly ask you to confirm that your resignation was sincere, heartfelt and not sent by somebody else. Please be assured that my intentions are not malevolent but from somebody on your side.

 

[Bfgrn]

Yes, I am sure this Emeritus Professor of Physics is just a senile old man who doesn't know what he is saying. He probably doesn't even remember he wrote the letter of resignation! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fraud and corruption he has witnessed in recent years, he probably just imagined all that as well.

You people amaze me with your spinning abilities!

Hey Dix...your word for today.

Emeritus

–adjective
1. retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position

 

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From: President Barry Usane Obama<pbobama@whitehouse.gov>
Subject: Re: Resignation Letter
To: "Yurt"
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 10:15 PM

Yes, I quit. Soros has a new candidate and I've been offered a considerable sum to step down. Sorry Yurtle the turtle (or whatever other lovey dovey nicknames my pets legion troll, onceler, et al have for you), money talks and my bs is walking.

All the best,

Former President of the United States
Barry "I'm awesome blossom" Obama

On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Yurt wrote:

Hi Mr. President,

You don't know me, but I have been totally dismayed at the level of spin generated by your resignation letter to the APS. There have been many that have displayed an extraordinary ageism in response to your letter. Can I humbly ask you to confirm that your resignation was sincere, heartfelt and not sent by somebody else. Please be assured that my intentions are not malevolent but from somebody not on your side.

 

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From: President Barry Usane Obama<pbobama@whitehouse.gov>
Subject: Re: Resignation Letter
To: "Yurt"
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 10:15 PM

Yes, I quit. Soros has a new candidate and I've been offered a considerable sum to step down. Sorry Yurtle the turtle (or whatever other lovey dovey nicknames my pets legion troll, onceler, et al have for you), money talks and my bs is walking.

All the best,

Former President of the United States
Barry "I'm awesome blossom" Obama

On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Yurt wrote:

Hi Mr. President,

You don't know me, but I have been totally dismayed at the level of spin generated by your resignation letter to the APS. There have been many that have displayed an extraordinary ageism in response to your letter. Can I humbly ask you to confirm that your resignation was sincere, heartfelt and not sent by somebody else. Please be assured that my intentions are not malevolent but from somebody not on your side.

You are just behaving like a prick now.

 

[NOVA]

Was it a real letter... or not?

Professor Emeritus Harold Warren Lewis of University of California Santa Barbara’s Institute of Theoretical Physics has apparently decided to resign from the American Physical Society, because it appears he thinks the Science of Global Warming is a “scam” :-

http://climateprogress.org/2010/10/11/hal-lewis-resigns-from-the-american-physical-society/

By the way, this gentleman is not the same as the other theoretical physicist, also called Harold W. Lewis, of Duke University, who died in the year 2000, just before you ask :-

http://www.phy.duke.edu/history/DistinguishedFaculty/HaroldLewis/

I have three questions :-

1. Why now ?

Why has Professor Lewis decided to break with the American Physical Society at this moment precisely ? Or was the timing of this “resignation” carefully chosen ?

It seems likely that Professor Lewis was not altogether happy about the Science of Global Warming for some years. After all, he participated in the “TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING” Open Letter to the Congress of the United States of America of 1st July 2009 :-

http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-...s-you-are-being-decieved-about-global-warming

(Note : co-signed by Professor S. Fred Singer).

Professor Lewis been a member of the American Physical Society for a number of decades. So why resign now ? And what for ? What possible reason can have arisen recently, or may be about to happen, that could have forced his hand ?

2. Why does Harold Lewis’ resignation letter read like it was written by somebody else ?

Hal Lewis’ normal style of speech can be read in a transcript of an interview with the American Institute of Physics on 6th July, 1986 :-

http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!4742!0&profile=newcustom-icos

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4742.html

The style of the resignation letter just recently published with Harold Lewis’ name on it is very informal. Yet, for something seemingly written by Professor Lewis in a conversational style, it is chock-full of sarcastic, sardonic remarks, the kind of device that really isn’t found in the 1986 interview, where Hal remarks on his position as the chair of a top secret advisory group :-

“The important thing in running JASON is to have the respect of the members, because if they don’t respect you, you can really get into trouble.”

Throughout his career, which spanned the academic, commercial and political worlds, he would have needed to use extra-diplomatic language, something that this recent letter of resignation doesn’t demonstrate.

Simple textual analysis suggests he didn’t write this letter of resignation.

3. What is his health like ?

What is Professor Lewis’ current state of health ?

As it says in the AIP interview :-

Aaserud: “You were born in New York City on the 1st of October, 1923.”
Lewis: “That is correct.”

Which would put him currently in his late eighties. Is he perhaps unwell ? Has he seen this document that he is supposed to have written ? Does he even know this letter of resignation has been written, in his name, but quite probably not in his normal style ?

This looks surprisingly like political ghostwriting, of the kind that allegedly tripped up Roger Revelle :-

http://www.desmogblog.com/the-deniers-the-world-renowned-scientist-who-got-al-gore-started

See the comments by Justin Lancaster here :-

http://www.desmogblog.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-robert-c-balling

Who is Justin Lancaster ? Somebody who tried to stand up for the views of Roger Revelle :-

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/04/if-richard-lindzen-shows-up-at-your.html

Roger Revelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“…Justin Lancaster, Revelle’s graduate student, alleged that Revelle was “hoodwinked” by Singer into adding his name to the article and “he was intensely embarrassed that his name was associated” with it and charged that Singer’s actions were “unethical”. Under threat of lawsuit by Singer, Lancaster recanted his statement, but years later has reiterated his charges and withdrawn his retraction…”

In conclusion, the letter of resignation from Harold Lewis may show us the ideological DNA of Fred Singer. Or it may not. It might be a callous hoax by someone much younger and with far less finesse.

Something that James Delingpole would possibly find it hard to detect, despite his enormous skill with the English language :-

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/j...scientific-fraud-i-have-seen-in-my-long-life/

What an imagination....you pinheads just make shit up right and left if you don't like the facts....typical....
You might just try writing a long fiction novel with an imagination like you have....you can ignore the truth there too....

 

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You are just behaving like a prick now.

stop fantasizing about me

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Hey Dix...your word for today.

Emeritus

–adjective
1. retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position

What is your point? That he is retired? Uhm, dude's 87 years old, I would hope he would be retired. LMFAO...

Have you Googled "emeritus professor" yet? It's interesting what sort of rigmarole you have to go through to be distinguished with such an honor. But I am sure a pinhead like you knows all about that, right?

 

[tinfoil]

Watermarx...don't forget, you're talking to people who believe:

THESE are the entities that fund the truth on climate change and our environment...

And THESE are the experts...

You believe in people who conspire to edit data and delete subjects of FOI requests. You believe in Non-Governmental-Agencies (NGOs) who openly propagandize and when it ends up in IPCC reports, you brush it off as just another simple mistake instead of the breach of science that it represents.

You are a willing slave to the technocrats who are selling you a mythical salvation based on faulty statistical analysis. No amount of stats can help someone like you see this because you must have no grasp of craft and thus you just ignore it and let "someone smarter" than yourself do your thinking for you. You assume everyone is as unlearned as you are so you figure they must also let others do their thinking for them. You accuse them of getting their info from oil shills but you fail to understand you are getting your info from the global technocrats who are usurping power everywhere we see.

A big "fuck you!" to all you warmers