Tuesday, October 12, 2010

"Activism" Trumps Science

A letter to the San Jose Mercury News:



Sharon Noguchi's understanding of "global warming" seems a bit sketchy.



Instead of writing adoring paeans to the genius of college sophomores making cardboard playhouses incorporating "emission free" batteries (where does the lead in batteries come from?) perhaps Ms. Noguchi should spend a bit of quality intellectual time with Emeritus Professor of Physics Harold Lewis, formerly a fellow of the American Physics Society (APS).



As a starting point for Sharon's desperately needed education, Professor Lewis could begin by explaining some facts about global warming and Big Science: " 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."



Ms. Noguchi appears not to know or even suspect that there might be some valid scientific issues that call into question the actual scientific reality of "human caused global warming", and therefore, the need for goofy, pointless, and wasteful cult rituals like "Earth Day", "The California Global Warming Act", "Global Work Party" and other feel good nonsense.

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