I guess most of this blog’s readers are as appalled as I am by the doomsday predictions dressing as scientific climate research. Not to be outdone by anyone, BILD ran an article on man-like Mars creatures, who – according to “scientists” and an “author” – live in caves deep below the surface of the red planet because of a historical climate catastrophe, “same as the earth will witness”. You better get your light bulbs ready…
No surprise that the German media eagerly transport the desired messages of the IPCC crowd. After all, if only George W. Bush would sign “Kyoto”…
Using the “follow the money” analysis that has served me well during most of my lifetime, I detect these beneficiaries of climate hysteria:
- Scientists (driven by an interest in funding of their research)
- Energy industry (think CO2 free nuclear energy)
- Insurance companies (aiming at premium rises for all types of risk insurance)
- Computer companies (hey, you need supercomputers for these nice earth warming simulations…)
- (feel free to add other branches)
Here is a fascinating albeit somewhat depressing analysis by Hendrik Tennekes, retired Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute:
Seventeen years ago, I wrote a column for Weather magazine, expressing my concerns about the lack of honesty, integrity and humility of many climate scientists. “I worry about the arrogance of scientists who claim they can help solve the climate problem, provided their research receives massive increases in funding”, reads one line from my text. Unknown to me, my friend Richard Lindzen was working on his famous paper “Some Cooling Concerning Global Warming”, which appeared in the Bulletin of the AMS at the same time. This was early 1990. It is 2007 now, and I want to ring the alarm bell again. There is a difference, though: then I was worried, now I am angry. I am angry about the Climate Doomsday hype that politicians and scientists engage in. I am angry at Al Gore, I am angry at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists for resetting its Doomsday clock, I am angry at Lord Martin Rees for using the full weight of the Royal Society in support of the Doomsday hype, I am angry at Paul Crutzen for his speculations about yet another technological fix, I am angry at the staff of IPCC for their preoccupation with carbon dioxide emissions, and I am angry at Jim Hansen for his efforts to sell a Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown Catastrophe.
I urge you to read the complete article.
