Physicists drop the hammer...

...on the fraud of AGW (anthropogenic global warming) research, in a lengthy memo to Parliament.

The memo, from the highly respected Institute of Physics, reports the IoP's response to a parliamentary "call for evidence" for its inquiry into the conduct of AGW research.

"The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over 36,000 and is a leading communicator of physics-related science to all audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics.

"The Institute is pleased to submit its views to inform the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's inquiry, 'The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia'.
"The submission details our response to the questions listed in the call for evidence, which was prepared with input from the Institute's Science Board, and its Energy Sub-group."

Ed Morrissey at Hotair.com describes the memo as

"a devastating critique from an objective scientific community. It exposes as risible the notion that, as EPA Director Lisa Jackson attempted to insist, the UEA CRU e-mails only revealed a lack of interpersonal skills among AGW advocates.

"As the IoP makes clear, the UEA CRU and its many partners in the AGW movement committed intellectual and scientific fraud — and their conclusions should be viewed as worthless."

The biggest boondoggle in the history of science.

Nothing else comes close. The Lysenko hoax in the USSR is merely the runner-up, even though it ruined Soviet biology and crippled agriculture there for a generation. But Lysenkoism (1) was forced on science by Stalin; (2) its influence and effects were restricted to the USSR; and (3) Lysenko, after the death and de-sanctification of Stalin, was disgraced and exiled to Siberia.

By contrast, AGW (1) has been generated, promulgated, and defended by corrupted science itself, not forced from outside by political authority; (2) has been a world-wide fiasco, thanks to the propagandistic efforts of the UN's lamentable IPCC; and (3) instead of leading to ignominy and exile, AGW continues to make fortunes for Nobel-Hollywood laureate Al Gore and other of its private-sector cheerleaders, to maintain a professional gravy train for its scientific enablers, and to provide psychic income and encouragement to the destructive fantasists of the anti-capitalist International Left.

We have a winner.

Byron