If done gradually, the US political class could deliver Americans into global slavery. Trump has chosen the same drip...drip...drip method, dragging the American electorate around like a rag doll as his support escalates for the greatest crime against humanity in history. His voters hear their heart beat as they wonder, "will he, or won't he?": "While
Tillerson endorsed the Arctic Council document, he cautioned that the
U.S. would not be rushed into formulating its policy."..."Rushed?" There has never been a more obvious crime against humanity. It has continued for decades for one reason: The American people are defenseless against the US political class. We are slaves."It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific
fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist." From Oct. 6, 2010, letter by the late Harold Lewis
[deceased 5/26/2011] in his resignation from the American Physical Society over its support of the global warming scam and the "literally trillions of dollars driving it."
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May 11, 2017, "US signs international declaration on climate change despite Trump's past statements," Yahoo.com, Conor Finnegan
"While President Trump has talked tough in the past about his skeptical views on climate change, his administration appears to be taking a more cautious approach to the issue on the world stage in the early days of his presidency.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed a document today calling climate change [ie., catastrophic man-caused global warming started by Americans in the 1700s Industrial Revolution, especially the Watt Steam Engine], a “serious threat” to
the Arctic and noting the need for action to reduce its potentially
harmful effects.
The
document, known as the Fairbanks Declaration, concluded Tillerson’s
chairing of a meeting of the Arctic Council, a board made up of
indigenous groups and the eight countries bordering the Arctic, in
Fairbanks, Alaska.
While
the council only has the power to issue advisories, the language in the
statement signed by Tillerson comes in stark contrast to statements and
promises made by President Trump about climate change.
Trump
has repeatedly called into question the science behind climate change,
even calling it a “very expensive hoax.” During his 2016 campaign, Trump
promised to pull out of the Paris accord and his administration has
ordered cuts to funding for climate science and has slashed
environmental regulations....
The
Trump administration has not come out with a decision on whether the
U.S. will pull out of the Paris Climate accord.
The
Fairbanks proclamation says that “the Arctic is warming at more than
twice the rate of the global average, resulting in widespread social,
environmental, and economic impacts,” and notes “the pressing and
increasing need for mitigation and adaptation actions and to strengthen
resilience.”
It calls for “the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on climate change and its implementation, and reiterating the need for global action to reduce both long-lived greenhouse gases
and short-lived climate pollutants.” Later in the statement, the
parties commit a whole section to addressing the impacts of climate
change, laying out eleven steps forward.
ABC
News has not yet received a response to questions posed to the White
House on whether the current administration agrees with that language.
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Added: Text of Oct. 6, 2010 letter from Emeritus Professor Hal Lewis resigning from the American Physical Society over its support for the global warming scam, published 8/10/2010 by GWPF:
August 10, 2010, "Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society"
"From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
August 10, 2010, "Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society"
"From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
6 October 2010
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.
So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:
1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate.
2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in) distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.
3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.
4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.
5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.
6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.
APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?
I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst.
When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal"
"Harold Lewis [deceased 5/26/2011] is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)"
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Alternate link for Hal Lewis letter above: "Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society – an important moment in science history," 10/16/2010, Watts up with that
Alternate link for Hal Lewis letter above: "Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society – an important moment in science history," 10/16/2010, Watts up with that
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