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Climate Wars Heat-up Again
The American Physical Society (APS) — of which I am a member — is looking to revise its Climate Change Statement. Many scientific societies have decided to issue statements about global warming/climate change. Don’t ask me why they feel the need to do this.
The last statement issued by the APS in 2007 was such a disaster that they had to backpedal in 2010 with a convoluted explanation of why it didn’t say what everyone thought it said. This time around, they convened a panel of experts headed up by Steve Koonin, formerly of Caltech and recently an undersecretary in the Dept. of Energy in the Obama administration. Koonin held a workshop last year to try work out the text of the new statement. Subsequently, Koonin quit the panel responsible for the new statement (Panel on Public Affairs – POPA) and published the opinion piece “Climate Science Is Not Settled” in the Wall Street Journal. Judging by that op-ed, things didn’t work out as he hoped.
Now APS is asking for comments about the new proposed statement. It’s unlikely that member comments made to APS directly will be made public, so Judy Curry — Georgia Tech climatologist and now-famous global warming apostate — is collecting comments from APS members in her blog. Mostly skeptics and contrarians are posting. The comments make for amusing reading.
Scientific opposition to global warming alarmism is growing, but this beast is proving to be hard to kill.
Published in Science & Technology
Obviously you meant punched. How humiliating.
I completely agree of course. The point is that doubt there is much humans can do to alter the trajectory by much, and take comfort in that it appears to take a few thousand years to get through a cycle so I have high hopes of missing the next ice age. Unless we figure out immortality that is.
Punch in the nose would be pretty humiliating, too. You’d probably sneeze all over the place.
Randy Webster: Punch in the nose would be pretty humiliating, too. You’d probably sneeze all over the place.
Isn’t that how you fought where you grew up? It’s kinda like being water boarded. No fun.
Thank you for your honorable and courageous stand. And yes – this beast is scary. The next few years as we enter solar minimum could be very interesting.