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Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate

“Considerable presence” of skeptics

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.”

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I believe that bears repeating in case you missed it....


..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.

But...but...but.....The Debate is over!!!!

Hardly, and I think about 50,000 physicists say the debate hasn’t even begun yet. But it will.

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.”

The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity—the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause—has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling.  A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.

Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton’s paper an “expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and “extensive errors”

In an email to DailyTech, Monckton says, “I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC’s 2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central ‘climate sensitivity’ question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method.”

According to Monckton, there is substantial support for his results, “in the peer-reviewed literature, most articles on climate sensitivity conclude, as I have done, that climate sensitivity must be harmlessly low.”

Monckton, who was the science advisor to Britain’s Thatcher administration, says natural variability is the cause of most of the Earth’s recent warming.  “In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years ... Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth.”

C’mon Global Alarmists, break out the pitchforks and pickets, scream at him that he is a flat earther, a denier, that he should be jailed for not being a believer!!!

Get the police so you can Jail these Deniers and try them for high crimes against humanity and nature, because they are on par with Holocaust Deniers.

But what are they going to blame kidney stones on?

Got kidney stones? Blame global warming study says.

At least they will have serious debates on Global Warming and not have this type of idiocy:


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Or Television Sets Cause Global Warming

Except when tuned to anything but Fox right?

In all seriousness, the debate has yet to start, and what you are seeing is not a consensus, but a very large group and growing of people who do not bow at the altar of the Goracle.