Nerd News: Hal Lewis Resigns from the American Physical Society

This is pretty important in nerd terms: Lewis of UC-Santa Barbara is a very prominent physicist, and he has quit the world's second largest physics society after 67 years of membership.  His decision is based on the issue of global warming and ClimateGate.  Read his resignation letter here.  Along with a number of other physicists (such as Robert Austin and William Happer, both of Princeton), Lewis has long voiced his objection to the politicization of science in the name of global warming.   (OK, I'm a nerd and I can't help giving you citations.  Here are no fewer than 800 academic papers and articles calling for skepticism on climate alarmism.)  Anyway, I give you a bit of Professor Lewis' public letter of resignation:

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.

Scandal and skulduggery in the sciences by academics.  Surprise, surprise snark>.  The usual culprits are here too: the desire for money, power, and influence (now all covered over with messianic greener-than-thou pretense to make a virtue out of vice).  Expect, however, Professor Lewis to be marginalized and demonized for his doubt of the Green Gaia Cult.  Heretic!  Blasphemer!