Saturday, July 19, 2008

MORE WINGNUT BS, THIS TIME ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Christopher Monckton, an eccentric British peer had an article published in a forum of the American Physical Society (APS) that argued that there was no man-made global warming. The wingnuts went sticky wet about this. This article was not peer-reviewed and this appears at the very beginning of the article:
This article has not undergone any scientific peer review. Its conclusions are in disagreement with the overwhelming opinion of the world scientific community. The Council of the American Physical Society disagrees with this article's conclusions.

The APS went further and issued this statement:
APS Position Remains Unchanged
The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007:

"Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate."

An article at odds with this statement recently appeared in an online newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society, one of 39 units of APS. The header of this newsletter carries the statement that "Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum." This newsletter is not a journal of the APS and it is not peer reviewed.

Climate Progress has more on this.

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