US physics professor: "Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudo scientific fraud I have seen in my long life" definitely belonged in the latter category. I claim no credit for it. All I did was print, verbatim, a resignation letter written by a distinguished US physics professor Hal Lewis to the American Physical Society. Possibly I helped give it legs by singling out the juiciest quote in the letter and putting it in the headline. That's all.
The true hero of the hour is Professor Lewis for having the courage to stick out his neck and say what so many thousands of other scientists around the world would dearly love to say too: that the global warming industry is a scam and sham. But they can't because, like all of us, they have to make a living.
I'll leave it to a commenter called Scotchman to explain how it works:
No surprise here. Don't know if any of you are scientists but climate change is a bit of a standing joke in the science community. Want funding for a study of, say, UK swan populations? Sorry old boy, no money. Well, in that case I would like to conduct a study into the effect of climate change on UK swan populations. Certainly, how much would you like? Trouble is it distorts the research.
The scientist's objective is to stay in a job, publish papers and run a research team. Process takes precedent over results, a bit like modern policing and medicine really. Telegraph