Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming

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the global warming theory left him out in the cold.

Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that “global warming is occurring.”

The official position of the American Physical Society (APS) supports the theory that man’s actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide.

Giaever does not agree — and put it bluntly and succinctly in the subject line of his email, reprinted at Climate Depot, a website devoted to debunking the theory of man-made climate change.

“I resign from APS,” Giaever wrote.

Giaever was cooled to the statement on warming theory by a line claiming that “the evidence is incontrovertible.”

“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?” he wrote in an email to Kate Kirby, executive officer of the physics society.

“The claim … 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,” his email message said.

A spokesman for the APS confirmed to FoxNews.com that the Nobel Laureate had declined to pay his annual dues in the society and had resigned. He also noted that the society had no plans to revise its statement.

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Most scientists do not deny that there are a few scientists–especially outside the ranks of climate science–who dissent from the generally agreed upon scientific opinion that the temperature of the globe is warming, and the human contribution to its nature, and its detriment if not checked.

The idea that the American Physical Society (APS) allows debate over whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but not about whether the earth’s warming is man’s fault (or can be affected by men’s actions at any cost) was a good reason to quit the group.
I can’t fault the professor for resigning.
If the debate is not allowed inside the APS where is the more appropriate forum?