ANOTHER LARGE CRACK IN AL GORE'S PLASTIC PERSONA

This is extremely significant. It's been nearly a full year since the countless emails were leaked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in Great Britain. Since then, there have been random and sporadic events that only serve to discredit Al Gore's cause. We have another one and it is significant. The American Physical Society (APS) is a group of highly respected scientists whose support has been critical to the man-made Climate change hucksters. In the days after Climategate, a few APS scientists authored a fiery letter to other members of the group, charging that the work on global warming they had done was based on corrupted science.

One of the scientists who signed that letter was Hal Lewis, emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. One year later, Lewis has submitted his resignation from APS with a letter even more highly charged. On October 6, 2010 here is part of what Lewis wrote to Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society:

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist....

In short, he resigned because he couldn't stomach the fact that science had been corrupted by money. CLICK HERE to read the entire letter; it's definitely worth it.

h/t to WUWT