What's the name of the science group that Oppenheimer founded after WWII?

[intheflow]

I can't remember, but I seem to remember that they are a group that is concerned about global warming. Had a true believer at church today, one that claims it's all a political hoax. :eyes: I told him to check out the Union of Concerned Scientists because I thought that was Oppenheimer's group, but it's not.

And while I'm having a senior moment... maybe it wasn't Oppnheimer who founded it, but Einstein? Damn, this minister's memory is the case for not mixing science and religion!!!

[rzemanfl]

1. Just read this in a book a week ago, the book is back at the

library and I have CRS.

[wake.up.america]

2. CRS - what is that ? deals with memory loss?

[rzemanfl]

3. "Can't Remember Shit" it starts in your fifties and gets worse. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

12. Make that the forties, in some cases. n/t

[rzemanfl]

13. I never know whether the emphasis should be on "remember"

or on "shit."

[Mnemosyne]

14. Shit pops out quite often when CRS sets in for the day.

Oh shit, where is that?! Shit, what did I come in here for! :evilgrin:

[Javaman]

18. What were we talking about? nt

[Mnemosyne]

19. I forgot. lol n/t

:hi:

[intheflow]

15. I resemble that remark!

(See OP... serious case of CRS!)

[Mnemosyne]

16. And we may continue to resemble it

more every year, or month, or week.

I forget.

[rzemanfl]

4. Institute for Advanced Studies? n/t

[catnhatnh]

5. A fast google of oppenheimer+global warming....

brought up a Professor Michael Oppenheimer and an Andres Oppenheimer-both of whom lecture on the subject...could this be a source of confusion?

[intheflow]

7. I think I'm confusing J. Robert Oppenheimer with Michael Oppenheimer.

Didn't stumble accross Andres, I'll have to go and check him out.

On edit: found Andres, he's definiately not the guy I'm thinking of. He's chiefly a Latin American journalist for the Miami Herald. Though he may have written on climate change, he's not a scientific expert in the field, or even a scientist.

[jpak]

6. Oppenheimer was a co-founder of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

and the Doomsday Clock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists

Is that what you meant???

[intheflow]

9. Yes, I think this is the source of the org name mix-up.

Atomic Scientists... Concern Scientists... same difference! (I'm such a putz sometimes. :dunce: )

[wildhorses]

8. are you referring to the manhattan project

:shrug:

[intheflow]

10. Naw.

That was during WWII and had to do with developing The Bomb. I think I got my Oppenheimers mixed up.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer

[wildhorses]

11. well, now that makes all the difference

:rofl:

[NNadir]

17. Oppenheimer had nothing to do with UCS, since he was a scientist.

Oppenheimer after losing his government security clearance went to work at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. His government service was ended in the early 1950's because of the Red Scare.

The nuclear scientist who first alerted the world to the implications of global warming was Alvin Weinberg at Oak Ridge National Laboratories where he was director, and where he was fired, mostly for being right about too many things. (He was building on the work of Arrhenius - who predicted global warming in the 19th century.) Alvin Wienberg - who died recently in his 90's was a tireless worker for nuclear energy, and continued to advance it up until his death. He was the person who called for containment domes - a good idea - and the inventor of the molten salt reactor - the best unexploited energy technology ever imagined.

Dr. Weinberg was also instrumental in setting up the NREL, the National Renewable Energy Lab.