Aryan Physics Revisited:
- From: Roger Dewhurst <dewhurst@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:59:34 +1200
Aryan Physics Revisited: A Comparison of 1930s German Physics and Global
Warming Science Today
by James H. Rust, Professor of Nuclear Engineering (ret.)
For more than a quarter century controversy has embroiled the scientific
community over whether carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas formed from burning
fossil fuels, is causing increased global temperatures with catastrophic
consequences. This is also called anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Many
supporters of AGW are adamant in their views and refuse to acknowledge the
existence of scientists or the science that refutes their views. Some
advocates could be described as self-assured, arrogant, and using
unflattering terms to describe those who disagree with them.
The possible threat of AGW spawned research funds from the United States
government to study climate science. An excellent paper by Joanne Nova
titled "Climate Money"
<http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_m
oney.pdf> traces the way money was spent from 1989 to 2008 in the amount of
$79 billion. Research supporting AGW was able to generate more money; so the
financing system fed upon itself. If initial research proved AGW did not
exist, future funding would have ceased. Yet to be reported, the United
States economic stimulus funds for 2009 will allocate billions of dollars
spent in anticipation of AGW.
Advocates of AGW have had much media attention so many have become household
names. Five names are Dr. John Holdren, Director of the White House Office
of Science and Technology; Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard
Institute of Space Studies; Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore, former United States
Senator and Vice President; Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman; and journalist
Ellen Goodman.
Doctor Holdren co-authored a book Ecoscience: Population, Resources,
Environment in 1977 with Paul and Anne Ehrlich
<http://zombietime.com:80/john_holdren>. This book describes means of
population control of forced abortions, sterilizations, babies seized from
single or teen mothers, etc. During Dr. Holdren's confirmation hearing
before the United States Senate in 2009, it was pointed out he had predicted
in 1986 one billions deaths due to AGW by 2020. The question today about Dr.
Holdren's prediction is whether one hundred million will die annually for
the next decade or will one billion die during 2019.
Dr. Hansen is a strong advocate for AGW testifying to this effect before the
United States Senate in 1988. Recently, Dr. Hansen called for CEOs of fossil
fuel companies to be put on trial for "high crimes against humanity and
nature." He testified in the defense of six British conservationists who
vandalized a new coal power plant under construction
<http://theweeklystandard.com/content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/591lnahj>.
The attitudes of Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore are well summarized by an
article by John Dendahl "Nobel Peace Laureate Al Gore is a Threat to Peace"
<http://www.therockymountainfoundation.org/algorethreattopeace.html>. Nobel
Prize Winner Gore made the statement years ago "the science is settled" on
AGW. MIT Professor Richard Lindzen wrote an article in the April 12, 2006
Wall Street Journal titled "Climate of Fear"
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220>. In this article Prof.
Lindzen wrote Senator Gore in 1992 tried to bully dissenting scientists to
agree with his climate alarmism. Later Vice President Gore tried to enlist
Ted Koppel in a witch hunt to discredit anti-alarmist scientists.
Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman wrote in the June 29, 2009 New York Times
his feeling about the June 26, 2009 debate on the Waxman-Markey Bill - "And
as I watched the deniers make their argument, I couldn't help thinking that
I was watching a form of treason-treason against the planet."
Journalist and AGW expert Ellen Goodman wrote "Let's just say that global
warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers."
To illustrate uncivil behavior by AGW advocates is not confined to the
United States; a June 16, 2009 meeting between Australian Senator James
Fielding, Australian government AGW proponents, and four independent climate
scientists is reported by Dr. David Evans
<www.joannenova.com.au/2009/06/19/the-wong-fielding-mmeting-on-global-warmin
g>.
Senator Fielding and four independent climate scientists met with the
Minister for Climate Change Peggy Wong, Chief Climate Scientist Penny
Sackett and Professor Will Steffen to discuss current science on AGW. The
government scientists were aloof, self-assured, and created an aura of
intimidation. They made no eye contact or shook hands at the end of the
meeting.
In another vein, President of the British Science Association, Lord Robert
May of Oxford, addressed his association and said faith groups could lead in
the policing of human behavior
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/2009.sep/07/global-warming-religion> In a plea to
enforce climate change, Lord May said, "How better it is if the punisher is
an all-powerful, all-seeing diety."
After WWI, a movement was started to promote accomplishments of German
physicists which soon took on racial aspects because these accomplishments
were restricted to Aryan or German physicists
<www.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeutschePhysik>. Thousands joined this movement and
notable members where Nobel Prize Winners Johannes Stark and Philipp Lenard.
Naturally, Aryan Physics excluded the works of Jewish scientists; most
famous being Albert Einstein.
Many physicists, including Stark and Lenard, joined and became active
members of the National Socialist Party. This provided a perfect match with
National Socialists views on race. They saw that the works of Jewish
scientists were stricken from textbooks, papers could not be published in
scientific journals, research funds denied, and finally by the mid 1930s,
employment with universities or research institutions terminated. Jewish
science was ignored. Supporters of Aryan Physics could be described as
self-assured, arrogant, and using unflattering names to describe Jewish
scientists. This author strongly states this essay does not imply any
connection of advocates for Aryan Physics to the atrocities committed by
advocates of National Socialism.
Finally Aryan Physics fell apart because it was recognized the Secrets of
the Universe could not be unlocked without use of Einstein's Theories. For
the record, Nobel Prize Winner Stark was jailed for four years after WWII.
A link between National Socialism and Conservatism movements was reported by
German historian Uekoetter's The Green and the Brown: a History of
Conservatism in Nazi Germany published by Cambridge Press in 2006. A
detailed review of this book was written by William Walter Kay
<http://www.ecofascism.com:80/review18.html>. Conservatism movements started
in Germany in the late nineteenth century and found easy mixing with
National Socialism with their members having memberships in their local
groups and the National Socialist Party. Millions of trees were planted in
the name of Adolf Hitler.
The behavior of many AGW advocates is remarkably similar to that of
supporters of Aryan Physics in 1930s Germany. They ignore entreaties of
scientists who disagree with them. They attempt to stifle publications of
research papers, obstruct funds for research that challenges AGW, and refuse
public debate on the science of AGW.
It is ironic that scientists who question AGW are placed in a similar
position as Jewish scientists in 1930s Germany. Their fate is most
certainly not as grim. Labelling those who question AGW as deniers implying
they deny the Holocaust is immoral.
The mixing of science with forces (such as politics, religion, or advocacy
groups) contrary to scientific principles of postulating theories and then
using observations to prove or disprove theories have been around since the
birth of human thought. Noteworthy is Galileo Galilei being found vehemently
suspect of heresy and forced to recant his belief the sun was the center of
the solar system instead of the earth in 1634. This setback may have slowed
development of astronomy; but did not seriously alter world's history.
Germany's experience with Aryan Physics may have cost them, and indirectly
Japan, greater harm from WWII. Without Jewish physicists, the Germans were
years away from developing an atomic bomb. The scientist who fled Europe in
the 1930s insured the United States would successfully develop an atomic
bomb in time to force a conclusion to WWII.
Subscribing to AGW may produce a large global impact if nations decide to
alter means of energy production because of a perceived belief in
catastrophic events due to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. The
proposal to reduce the world's production of carbon dioxide from burning
fossil fuels in 2050 to fifty percent of the level of 1990 will have
negligible impact on global warming or any other climate change. Great
economic damage will be done to the earth's inhabitants with energy
shortages and vastly higher energy costs. Undeveloped nations will be doomed
to maintaining the same lifestyles as years in the past. All will suffer
except those who trade in energy credits and produce alternative energy
sources.
Much has been written about the science of climate change and the influence
of carbon dioxide. A recent 2009 book Climate Change Reconsidered--The
Report of the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change <www.nipccreport.org
<http://www.nipccreport.org/> > contains numerous references as current as
2009. The futility of trying to restructure the United States energy
production from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources by 2050 is well
described by Donn Dears 2009 book Carbon Folly <www.carbonfolly.com
<http://www.carbonfolly.com/> >.
A vast amount of material is available to support the thesis of a similarity
between militant advocates of Aryan Physics and AGW. Internet reference were
given for this essay and those willing to check these references and use
available links can have months of reading.
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