American Physical Society Opens Global Warming Debate

[AEGeneral]

This courtesy of a reader of Anthony Watt's blog:

DailyTech - Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."


In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,"There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."

Something like this should be a major news headline, but I seriously doubt any mainstream outlet will touch it.

[mcclane]

I agree, I would love to see something like this make it on the 6o'clock news. It'll be nice for the media to expose both sides of the debate, not just always the greenie weenie side.

[AEGeneral]

Apparently, the American Physical Society claims that Lord Monckton's paper was not peer-reviewed. He has now issued a letter of response:

Global Warming Science and Public Policy - SPPI Posts Copy of Sharp Letter from Lord Monckton to APS President, Paper was Peer-Reviewed

(Washington, DC) - Lord Monckton has sent a sharp letter of protest to the President of the American Physical Society over the false statement that Monckton’s paper critical of the UN’s estimates for climate sensitivity for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 was not peer-reviewed.

Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.

The paper clearly and mathematically demonstrates there is no “climate crisis” requiring massive government intervention, as falsely claimed by alarmists such as Al Gore and James Hansen. (more)