In his most recent post on his blog, Billy Dembski, the pope of the intelligent design movement, falls hook, line, and sinker for the freshest droppings from global warming denialists.  While declaring the death of scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming, he approvingly cites a story from the denialist website DailyTech.com about an alleged policy reversal by the American Physical Society.

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming “incontrovertible.”

Just one little problem, though:  the APS has done no such thing.  From the front page of the APS website:

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  This newsletter is not a journal of the APS and it is not peer reviewed.

Oops.  Not that we needed any further evidence that Billy D. is a credulous asshat, but come on, it took me less than five minutes to debunk that DailyTech article.

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