RE: Jim and IEEE
I’m thinking about leaving the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) for similar reasons. The editor, William Sweet, of their main journal, The Spectrum, has turned the magazine into his own propaganda mill supporting the idea of anthropogenic global warming. It seems practically every article is related to this idea or the idea of renewable energy, so long as it has even a tenuous link to electrical engineering. Advances in wind turbines, solar cell technology, carbon capture, fuel efficiency, alternative fuels, carbon monitoring, cap-and-trade, blah, blah, blah. In one issue he even wrote a breathless movie review of “An Inconvenient Truth”. Just recently, we was absolutely verklempt with the possibility, however remote, that a Moore’s like law could govern the prices of photovoltaic cells. (BTW, it won’t.)
I really can see spending over $100 a year supporting Sweet’s quixotic crusade.
PS. I do have to say I was surprised by last month’s offering. Instead of the usual Global Warming stuff, the whole issue was devoted to “the Singularity”.
