Incontrovertible?

'Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:42 PM
To: xxxx@aps.org
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'

The above is the text of an email sent to the American Pjysical Society by Physics Nobel Laureate Dr Ivar Giaever. It's good to see that another serious scientist has taken a stand against the 'warmist' religion. Dr Ivar Giaever has pointed out the factual problems that undermine the 'warmist' case. Per his Wikipedia entry:

According to The Wall Street Journal, Giaever has described man-made global warming as a "new religion,"^[8] with references to a report released by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (minority), led by Jim Inhofe, in March 2009.^[9] The report states that Giaever has said "I am a skeptic… Global warming has become a new religion."^[9][10]
In a featured story in Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, 26 June 2011, Giaever stated, "It is amazing how stable temperature has been over the last 150 years."^[11]
On 13 September 2011 Giaever resigned from the American Physical Society over its official position that "the evidence is incontrovertible."^[12]

I wonder if the BBC will interview Dr Ivar Giaever about his views or do they too consider such views to be heretical?


Thanks to Devils Kitchen for the spot.