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JustOneMinute: How Green Was My Scientific Consensus?<\/a><\/p>\n

From Daily Tech:<\/p>\n

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science.<\/p>\n

Wow. From the APS editors comments (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

With this issue of Physics & Society, we kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research. There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution. Since the correctness or fallacy of that conclusion has immense implications for public policy and for the future of the biosphere, we thought it appropriate to present a debate within the pages of P&S concerning that conclusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: lots more conversation about trying to stop the conversation here<\/a><\/p>\n

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