Another scientist walks away from Al Gore

You've heard the old saying, :"Another one bites the dust." Well, it happened in the arena of global warming. Another Nobel laureate breaks from the climate change pack.

Ivar Giaever, a 1973 physics Nobel Laureate resigned last week from the American Physical Society in protest over the group's insistence that evidence of man-made global warming is "incontrovertible." That's the wording of Al Gore, who reassures us all that the issue really is settled.

In an email to the society, Mr. Giaever—who works at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—wrote that "The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me . . . that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period."

Mr. Giaever was an American Physical Society fellow, an honor bestowed on "only half of one percent" of the members, according to a spokesman. This is no slouch. He follows in the footsteps of University of California at Santa Barbara Emeritus Professor of Physics Harold Lewis, a former APS fellow who resigned in 2010, calling global warming "the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist." Now that's hard-hitting commentary.

But, as the late-night TV ads say, "Wait, there's more." Other dissenters include Stanford University physicist and Nobelist Robert B. Laughlin, deceased green revolution icon and Nobelist Norman Borlaug, Princeton physicist William Happer and World Federation of Scientists President Antonino Zichichi. Not that all of these men agree on climate change, much less mankind's contribution to it, but they at least maintain an open mind about warming or what to do about it.

One of the least savory traits of climate-change advocates is how they've tried to bully anyone who keeps an open mind. Remember Al Gore, who compared deniers of global warming to racists in the 1950s? With the cap-and-trade movement stymied, Mr. Gore and the climate clan have become even more arch in their dismissals of anyone who disagrees. You decide whom you wish to agree with--Professor Giaever, or Mr. Gore. My choice is pretty easy.