WUWT may recall the late Dr. Hal Lewis led the way on this last year as I covered at WUWT and in an op-ed at the Christian Science Monitor.
From Climate Depot, who got the exclusive:
Nobel prize winner for physics in 1973 Dr. Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on September 13, 2011 in disgust over the group’s promotion of man-made global warming fears. Climate Depot has obtained the exclusive email Giaever sent to APS Executive Officer Kate Kirby to announce his formal resignation.
Dr. Giaever wrote to Kirby of APS: “Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I cannot live with the (APS) statement below (on global warming): APS: ‘The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.’
Giaever announced his resignation from APS was due to the group’s belief in man-made global warming fears. Giaever explained in his email to APS: “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.”
Read the full story here at Climate Depot
Here’s the resignation letter:
From: Ivar Giaever [ mailto:giaever@XXXX.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:42 PMTo: kirby@xxx.xxx
Cc: Robert H. Austin; ‘William Happer’; ‘Larry Gould’; ‘S. Fred Singer’; Roger Cohen
Subject: I resign from APS
Dear Ms. Kirby Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I can not live with the statement below: Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth’s climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide as well as methane, nitrous oxide and other gases. They are emitted from fossil fuel combustion and a range of industrial and agricultural processes.The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring.
If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.
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.
Best regards, Ivar Giaever Nobel Laureate 1973 PS. I included a copy to a few people in case they feel like using the information.Ivar Giaever
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h/t to WUWT reader David L. Hagen
Good. There really isn’t a competent scientist on the planet who believes a peregrine falcon can dive at 240mph, and there isn’t a competent scientist on the planet who believes we’re doomed by greenhouse gases. –AGF
A change of 0.8°C in 150 years is essentially no change, assuming that measurement is outside the noise. Good move in the name of science.
Kudos to Dr. Giaever.
There isn’t a competent numerical modeller that believes you can model century scale simulations of stiff systems of PDE’s with low accuracy and low resolution initial conditions and with incompletely defined boundary conditions.
There isn’t a competent mathematician who thinks you can infill data across a pole.
Dr. Giaever, I am sorry you have need to dissacociate yourself from APS. I am more disturbed that APS has taken such an indefensible stance on the Science of CAGW. I will assume you know humans are having an effect on the planet but also realize the impact is minimal. I would love to read your thoughts on the whole subject as it would surely be informative. Be prepared to be smeared with the label “Denier” but wear it with pride because the alternative is Pseudoscience.
I don’t know if I were in your shoes, I would have the guts to take the path you have but I hope I would.
Stand by for assassination of Giaever’s character by the RealClimate mob.
What could a Physicist know about Climate Change?
/IPCC Climatologist
Good. It would be better, though, if non-retired scientists started to drop out of associations.
Especially non-retired scientists who control significant amounts of grant money.
If that ever happens, things will start to change.
Cui bono, always cui bono.
A man with the courage of his convictions is a man for all seasons.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” –anon. .
Dr. Giaever has taken a stand against evil. What happened to the APS is evil, the blatant prostitution of Science in the service of Politics. The only question is: Why are there not a hundred Giaevers, a thousand? The world has gone mad:
“…Man himself is the greatest peril to man, just because there is no adequate defense against psychic epidemics, which cause infinitely more devastation than the greatest natural catastrophes.” –Carl Gustav Jung, 1944
From Al Gore’s Letter:
“Your donation will help us spread the Climate Reality message in a unique and effective way. Tell the world: The climate crisis is not a debate. It’s reality. And the time to take action is not the future — it’s right now. The fat lady has sung.”
I guess Dr. Ivar Giaever got Gore’s letter and decided to take his advice. There’s a growing concensus, but not the one Gore would have hoped for I think. I can hear the fat lady ‘warming up’ alright.
“bladeshearerJack Maloney says:
September 14, 2011 at 10:45 am
Stand by for assassination of Giaever’s character by the RealClimate mob.”
That won’t be hard. From his wiki page:
“Giaever is an institute professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a professor-at-large at the University of Oslo (funded by the Norwegian oil and gas company, Statoil”)
I’m sure they’ll be all over that one. Notice that the funding sources for other posts he’s held aren’t listed? I wonder why? Looks like they’ve already picked him out as a trouble-maker, and branded him heretic.
A G Foster says: . . .
I’ve seen the hunting dive of the peregrine falcon. It is impressive. As is this statement by Dr. Giaever. I salute them both.
Respect. How many members are left in the APS?
Character assassination has already been ongoing on his wikipedia page, which says:
Giaever is a fellow at the Heartland Institute.[8] In the 1990s, the institute worked with the tobacco company, Philip Morris, to question the science linking secondhand smoke to health risks, and to lobby against government public-health reforms. More recently, the Institute has focused on questioning the scientific consensus on climate change, and has sponsored meetings of climate-change skeptics.[9]
Oil and gas companies have contributed to the Heartland Institute, including over $600,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005.[9]
Totally gratuitous linkage to tobacco research, which Giaever had no involvement in, and which preceded his involvement with Heritage Institute. Also, no evidence that Giaever has received a dime from the oil industry, especially since he’s a physicist and doesn’t do climate research. But smears like this are par for the course.
Kudos to Dr Giaever for taking a stand for truth, which the APS has defenestrated in its anti-science statement.
Dr Giaever has a lot of company. More than 30,000 individuals with advanced degrees in the hard sciences, including over 9,000 PhD’s, have co-signed the following statement:
There is no evidence that CO2 causes any global harm, and substantial evidence that added CO2 is beneficial to the biosphere.
Thus, more CO2 is both harmless and beneficial.
Is Al Gore the only Nobel laureate who publicly supports AGW.
Whoops … his is the peace prize. The same one that Obama got for all those drone attacks.
If Freidman in the NY Times is right, Dr. Giaever must have skipped his high school physics class the day global warming theory was covered.
Heroes are where you find them! I wonder, how many others have resigned that we will never hear about? Unsung heroes… is all. GK
Honor, ethics, and character reign.
It’s worse than they thought. It is going to get much worse.
Would jumping the shark apply here? The tipping point has passed
Someone enlighten me. What is motivating Gore? He is a failed politician who has amassed great wealth. Why does he not improve upon his golf handicap and fade into the sunset like all others before him?
I honestly don’t get it. Unless he thinks he can still be President?
Meanwhile here in the UK my energy bills just shot up – again – by between X3 and X5 inflation, depending upon whose statistices you believe.
Sadly, this correspondent is too old to jump off HMS UK. The Political elite have already pre-booked the lifeboats, and my pension no longer stretches to a lifebelt.
We’re doomed Mr Mainwaring – we’re doomed! (Brit readers will understand). http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/fpage/captain.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/music.htm&h=155&w=175&sz=5&tbnid=VFIF_s8FkgkNoM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=116&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCapt%2BMainwaring%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=Capt+Mainwaring&docid=ZBMe-qkKKQf75M&sa=X&ei=bPVwToeIO8Wo8APmwq2jAQ&ved=0CEwQ9QEwBg&dur=5524
jorgekafkazar says:
September 14, 2011 at 11:10 am
“Dr. Giaever has taken a stand against evil. What happened to the APS is evil, the blatant prostitution of Science in the service of Politics. The only question is: Why are there not a hundred Giaevers, a thousand? The world has gone mad:”
Exactly my thinking for years. The silence has been inexcusable.
Let me give this leftist smearing tactic thing a go:
Or, did I just give the rabid wiki editors something to work with?
Either way… great stand Dr. Giaever, and thanks for making sure everyone knows about it.
Smokey says:
“More than 30,000 individuals with advanced degrees in the hard sciences, including over 9,000 PhD’s, have co-signed the following statement…”
Smokey – do you have a source so I can document that statement? Like to pass it around…Talk about consensus! Al Gore – eat your heart out.
Also http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/09/distinguished-physicist-william-happer.html