It seems that the content of final
APS draft statement has little in common with the earlier work of the Koonan sub-committee.
Not exact matches
On Wednesday, October 20, 1993, an
AP story about the task force's
draft of a social teaching
statement, «The Church and Human Sexuality: A Lutheran Perspective,» hit the press around the country - even before the pastors had received their copies.
Laypeople interviewed by ClimateWire said the
draft, which has been split into three parts, did not have the clarity of tone of the 2007
APS statement.
«Time to move on»
APS released its
draft statement to its membership last week and called for comments.
The process of putting the
statement together was «painful,» said Robert Rosner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and an
APS member involved in the
drafting process until December 2014.
I am appalled at the weak, unprincipled and supine behavior of the
APS POPA group for
drafting a
statement that has surrendered to the unscientific, ideologically motivated political pressure from certain interest groups.
A: In this
draft statement on Earth's Changing Climate,
APS «reiterates» its 2007
statement in stating that: the climate is changing, humans are contributing to climate change, and rising concentrations of greenhouse gases pose the risk of significant disruption around the globe.
A: The entire
APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) membership was engaged in
drafting the
statement.
Notice that the
APS «leadership» released the
draft statement before asking for comments.
Are they being asked for comments on the
draft APS statement?
Now, absent a 180 in the new
draft policy
statement, I shall resign my
APS membership of many decades, and disown my status as an
APS Fellow.