At the July 3 Nobel laureates conference on Mainau Island, 30 of the 65 attendees signed a media-reported letter urging action against global warming.  Not reported by the media: the attendees listened to Norway's 1973 Nobel physics laureate, Ivar Giaever, give a truth-telling "Emperor's New Clothes" speech.  Also, the majority of the Nobel laureates refused to sign the alarmist global-warming letter. Giaever gave a great speech.  His explanations were clear.  His graphs were persuasive.  He took the part of the boy in the Emperor's New Clothes folktale.  The boy saw the emperor parading around naked and cried out, "The emperor has no clothes on!"  Giaever was saying that the fraction-of-a-degree differences in temperature upon which global warming theory is based are as invisible as the Emperor's new clothes.  He said (on this video at the 6:45...(Read Full Post)