The American Physical Society Admits There Is Debate On Global Warming

The American Physical Society is an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists. The society now admits that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The leadership of the organization had said before this week that the evidence for man-made global warming was "incontrovertible." The leadership says they "reaffirm that position." But the society is allowing for debate to begin by publishing a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley. The paper finds that the IPCC grossly overstated climate sensitivity, or the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause. Monckton said, “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.”

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

David Evans is a rocket scientist who has worked at the Australian Greenhouse Office. He writes that he personally "wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol." He makes startling admissions. He writes that "the evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly?...Since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming." Read the article here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html


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