Today's big global warming denier crowd news turns out to be....

[tex-wyo-dem]

...surprise, surprise...total crap.

A rumor is burning up the anti-global warming internets that even got picked up by such reputable news organizations as Fox News :sarcasm: that a respected organization of physicists (American Physical Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Physical_Society)) now challenges the IPCC position on human caused global warming.

Scientific Consensus About Global Warming Takes Another Big Hit

Change of Heart

An organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists has reversed its stance on climate change. The American Physical Society now says that many of its members no longer believe global warming is caused by humans.

The Society previously declared: "The evidence is incontrovertible. Global warming is occurring." But the Society now says there is no scientific consensus to support that statement: "There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the intergovernmental panel on climate change conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are likely to be primarily responsible for global warming."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386481,00.html

Unfortunately for the wingnut deniers, the American Physical Society has clarified its position and debunked any rumors that the group supports such claims:

APS Position Remains Unchanged

The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007:

"Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate."

An article at odds with this statement recently appeared in an online newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society, one of 39 units of APS. The header of this newsletter carries the statement that "Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum." This newsletter is not a journal of the APS and it is not peer reviewed.

http://www.aps.org/

But I'm sure Fox Noise and others will immediately retract their earlier "news" stories with full clarifications :sarcasm:

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Incomplete and incompetent. The watchwords of FAUXNOISE.

[Indenturedebtor]

2. Yeah I'm sure their hacks are filling the airwaves with the followup story here ... right n/t

[unpossibles]

3. this is great! I already had some troll on another board gleefully post the FOX version

nice to have the come back. I also pointed out that he disbelieved this organization when they disagreed with him....

[tex-wyo-dem]

4. I had the same thing happen on another board...

all it took was about 3 min. use of the google to trash his/her claims. He/she didn't post anymore after that :)

[Javaman]

5. Whether they believe it or not, it's still happening and buring ones head deapper

into the ground won't make it go away.

more right wing bullshit propaganda.