Nobel Prize-winning physicist quits APS over climate change

Fox News : Ivar Giaever, who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments on electron tunneling in superconductors, resigned on Tuesday from the American Physical Society over the society’s official statement on climate change. He objects in particular to the statement’s assertion that the evidence in favor of manmade climate change is “incontrovertible.” Giaever’s research encompasses condensed-matter physics and biophysics, but not climate science. The overwhelming majority of climate scientists support the view, embodied by APS’s official statement on climate change, that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing Earth’s lower atmosphere to warm. A recently formed topical group within APS gives the society’s members a forum for promoting “the advancement and diffusion of knowledge concerning the physics, measurement, and modeling of climate processes, within the domain of natural science and outside the domains of societal impact and policy, legislation and broader societal issues.”