'Climate Change is a Myth' -- A Nobel Prize Winner's Embarrassing Ideas

I suffered through an 80 mins lecture by Nobel Prize winner John F Clauser so that you don't have to. He calls climate change a "myth" and insists that climate scientists are "dishonest" and "clueless." It's frankly embarrassing he goes on about this, as climate scientists have told him multiple times that it's trivially wrong. I want to put this out there so that anyone who gets questions about it has an easy way to answer them.

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[martijn]

I legit burst out laughing at the suggestion that the extra energy went in the rotation of the earth. That doesnt even pass the sniff test.

[paulkolodner]

As a retired physicist, I have seen this kind of behavior among my colleagues at the lunch table many times. Here's the logic:
1. Physicists have the most spectacularly and precisely verified understanding of our field in the history of humanity.
2. This proves that physicists are smarter than anybody else. (This is particularly true in my own case.)
3. Therefore, my opinions about any scientific or social issue have to be correct.
4. The people who work in the field under discussion, I have noticed, are not physicists. What could they possibly understand better than me?
5. Therefore, they are idiots and wrong.
6. I have a theory that I just made up, ignoring work done by the so-called professionals in (insert name of field here).
7. It has to be right - see above. QED

[lwmarti]

I believe that it was Richard Hamming who noted the "Nobel Prize effect, " that it seems to be common for Nobel laureates to think that they also have expertise in things totally unrelated to their prize-winning competency.

[swiftlytiltingplanet]

We need to issue Clauser a Dunning-Kruger gold card. He has earned it.

[PyWPS]

Touche!!! Love this expression: "Just because geologist don't agree on earthquake predictions, it doesn't mean that plate tectonics don't exist"

[therakshasan]

Large amounts of money can change some people's mind on anything .

[tniemi]

Sabine in the corner of the screen not saying anything somehow feels so much more condemning...

[DreckbobBratpfanne]

"Says man who can't read title of a graph" was vicious xD

[RSmith-yuyj]

"You might think the biggest energy sink on Earth is moral outrage on Twitter"

[sonicgoo]

A lot of public stupidity seems to come from people successful in one field commenting on another.

[gspaulsson]

Reminds me of Linus Pauling's theory that vitamin C is good for what ails ya. He treated his wife's cancer with massive doses of vitamin C. She died. There are still "naturophathic oncologists" who peddle intravenous vitamin C infusions at $500/treatement, when vitamin C is dirt cheap and there is no reason to think that intravenous infusions are better than swallowing a handful of pills. A friend of a friend got sucked in. She died too. Hey, I have an Oxford doctorate in modern history, which makes me an expert on everything, because, you know, everything has a history.

[Adam-vffs]

He won a nobel prize by doing an experiment designed by another person. It wasn’t even accurate enough to be real proof. Nobel Prize awards are often not handed to the person who actually performed the creative process. So many examples.

[ArmchairMagpie]

"Why are so many people driving the wrong way?" asks the curious front passenger.
"It's because they are all incompetent and stupid.”, answers driver in the wrong lane.

[jabradford]

Whenever anyone gives a talk where they have a condescending attitude about how "dumb" everyone who disagrees with them is, I immediately tune it out. Thank you for sparing me from the torture of needing to sit through that talk.

[riggerman]

Looks like our civilisation gets clauser to chaos every day 😢

[joeroggenbeck]

"Oceans- those are all the blue parts on the globe." Sabine, you kill me!

[steveman]

I feel a bit better about not having a Nobel prize.

[philosophicsblog]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair

[aledarimini]

How sad to see another Noble prize winner take the Montagnier path. Old age can be really cruel.

[bobkoroua]

He doesn't sound well.
My dad started sounding fuddled, like he does, a year or so before dementia kicked in.