With Germany scouring the world for supplies of oil and gas and firing up dormant coal power stations, one of its most distinguished atmospheric scientists, Professor Hermann Harde, has castigated politicians for reacting to increasingly shrill climate horror stories and “believing they can save the world”. Many of the research studies and “horror scenarios” are not based on a secure physical foundation, he says, “but rather represent computer games that reflect what was fed in”. The idea that humans can control the climate with their CO2 emissions is said to be an “absolute delusion”.
In Professor Harde’s view, there exists considerable doubt about a “scientifically untenable thesis” of purely human-caused climate change, “and it is completely wrong to assume that 97% of climate scientists, or even more, would assume only anthropogenic warming”. In his view, climate and energy policy can only gain popular acceptance when they are based on reliable knowledge, “and not on speculations or belief”. Harde retired a few years ago from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg as Professor of Experimental Physics after a long career in science academia.
For many years, Germany’s politicians have been able to make virtuous green noises by closing nuclear power stations and banning exploration for fossil fuel. At the same time, the country started importing large quantities oil and gas from an unstable Russia. The war in Ukraine has suddenly brought home to Germany, and the EU, the sheer stupidity of this dangerous policy.
In Harde’s view, the move to impose ‘climate emergency’ policies was led by competition between different research groups to outdo each other predicting horror scenarios. Alarming predictions attracted media attention, “and our decision-makers felt obliged to quickly react”. But, noted Harde, it is absolutely clear that without a reliable and sufficient energy supply, “Germany and many other countries that take such a path will end in anarchy”.
Professor Harde’s research leads him to state that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change overestimates by five times the thermal effect of doubling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. He points to the “highly overlapping and saturated absorption bands” of CO2 and water vapour, and the significant reduced effect of greenhouses gases under cloud cover. He goes on to state that the recent increase in CO2 has caused warming of less than 0.3°C over the last century.
He continues:
Since only about 15% of the global CO2 increase is of anthropogenic origin, just 15% of 0.3°C, i.e., less than 0.05°C remains, which can be attributed to humans in the overall balance. In view of this vanishingly small contribution, of which the Germans are only involved with 2.1% [of emissions], it is absurd to assume that an exit from fossil fuels could even remotely have an impact on our climate. Changes of our climate can be traced back to natural interaction processes that exceed our human influence by orders of magnitude.
In Professor Hande’s opinion, modern climate science has developed more as an ideology and world view, rather than a serious science. Scientists who question or point to serious inconsistencies about human-caused or anthropogenic global warming, are “publicly discredited” and excluded from research funds. In addition, research contributions in journals are supressed, and in a reference to the recent Professor Peter Ridd case in Australia, placed on leave or dismissed from their university. After all, he notes, this is “settled climate science”, and doubts about the harmful effect of CO2 on the environment and the climate are not allowed, “because it is about nothing less than saving the planet”.
What we call truths, continues Harde, depends to a large extent on our state of knowledge. He suggests that climate science requires a fundamental review of the hypotheses and a shift away from the widely established climate industry. Science must not be misled by commerce, politics or ideology, he says. It is the genuine task of universities and state-funded research institutions “to investigate contradictory issues and to ensure independent, free research that gives us honest answers, even when these answers are often complex and do not fit into a desired political context”.
Harde concludes by warning politicians that it would be an irresponsible environmental and energy policy to continue to ignore serious peer-reviewed scientific publications that show a much smaller human impact on the climate than previously thought. It is also irresponsible to shut down a reliable, adequate and affordable energy supply, to be replaced by millions of wind turbines, “that destroy our nature and shred trillions of birds and insects”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
Postscript: It has been pointed out that a 2018 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that “human activities are estimated to have caused approximately 1.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels”. This view is supported by findings from such organisations as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the IPCC, which indicate that human activity is the greatest contributor to global warming, primarily through its emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
In Chris Morrison’s defence, the role of human activity in causing global warming is still a matter of dispute among climate scientists and the claim that it is “the greatest contributor to global warming” is not in reality ‘settled science’. Most people know what the IPCC thinks, since its views are widely reported. Our article reported an alternative view, one held by a distinguished atmospheric scientist. We believe science progresses by debating hypotheses such as these, not pretending they are ‘settled’ and dismissing views that challenge them as beyond the pale.
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The problem with vaccine injuries is that quite a few will be subclinical, so not obvious unless you start looking for it (as the Swiss study shows).
The focus has been on myocarditis, but more prospective studies are needed to look at fertility (following menstrual changes) and neurological issues.
I predict that we will find these vaccines are harmful to more organs than just the heart.
But in the meantime this vaccine technology (mRNA and lipid nanoparticles) should be shelved pronto.
And the consequence of that is that the overall effect is longer term. They will try to ignore it, and avoid assessing the cause of whatever effect emerges, trying to blame something else, as they go along.
There is no question that the injections were brewed to maim and kill in the immediate, medium and long term. Obviously the recipes were varied in order to produce these effects but the result is that identifying cause becomes more difficult as time passes.
One dark shadowy cabal wants to bring in as many foreigners as possible to prop up the economy and another wants us all dead?
There is a depopulation agenda on one hand and a determination to completely eradicate nation states on the other. Destroying Britain’s sense of self is more easily accomplished if the indigenous population is severely reduced and the remnants are left to make do with Third World riff-raff.
All quite obvious really.
Your paradox is easily explained. The “many foreigners”, largely male of military age and who probably haven’t been jabbed, will be the militia that keeps us diminishing numbers in check.
Two random things I’ve never understood, but perhaps others can chime in with their thoughts;
Firstly, if Covid was really just the flu, then how would that even lead to myocarditis in the first place? Has anybody ever heard of the flu causing heart inflammation? I haven’t.
Secondly, given how Sweden proved to the world ( and themselves ) that Covid obviously wasn’t as “deadly” as advertised, seeing as they pretty much took a “business as usual” approach and had barely any restrictions to normal life, why then did they have such a high uptake of the clot shots? Can’t remember what their % uptake was but it certainly wasn’t miniscule like the African countries. So if they’d all survived ( bar the frail who were due to die anyway ) 2020 by living normally why did they feel the need to get jabbed at all? Wouldn’t you expect they also would have a tiny uptake? They were the ‘control’ country for the world, after all, and usefully showed the world there was nothing to fear, only propaganda.
These two things I’ve often pondered but never seem to read about anywhere…
“why then did they have such a high uptake of the clot shots” – because Swedish people believe in their government, and are less likely than people in other countries like the UK to imagine that their government could be hijacked by the WEF to kill and maim them. Sadly, the Swedes were wrong about this.
It just smacks of serious cognitive dissonance if people in Sweden were like;
“What on earth is the rest of the world fussing about? We’re going out, living our lives, no masks anywhere and not dropping like flies. What deadly pandemic?”
Also Swedes:
“Crikey, thank the gods that miracle vaccine is finally here to save the day. Sign me up! I seriously thought I would die every day that I left my house, went to work, ate in a cafe, attended bars and parties, went to concerts…now my life can carry on, erm…just like before.”
See Covid vaccines and children. Parent: thank god little Johnny has had his Covid vaccine so that he doesn’t die of Covid like all his classmates haven’t.
I think you’re right about that. They believed in the propaganda, given where it came from. 20 odd years ago, I had a few Swedish colleagues at work, and spent a few weeks in Stockholm & Hässleholm, so it doesn’t surprise me.
Flu can cause myocarditis, but extremely rarely. Of course, since “flu” is a ragbag syndrome caused by a hundred or more different viruses, the effect is likely to be diluted because many will not cause such conditions.
COVID, however – or at least the circulating spike protein produced by the vaccine – has a specific effect targeting the myocardium (and other organs). Ergo likely to be a lot commoner, though I can’t cite relative rates… should be searchable to the patient Googler, though.
So going by your last paragraph I take it you’re not one of the folk who believe there was no Covid virus? which I think is where Mike Yeadon currently is in his opinion. I do think an awful lot of the Covid cases and deaths got misclassified as flu, but I’m not ready to deny Covid ever existed. Though my opinions on this are subject to change depending on what I read..
But blaming a respiratory virus for a rise in myo/pericarditis is a bit of a stretch, especially for younger folk. I’ll take your word for the fact it can be a consequence of the flu but ultimately it’s plain as day it’s all fear porn with the intention of getting as many people jabbed as possible. Fortunately the uptake of the shots appears to be in decline, generally speaking.
I’m stuck in the middle; I’m very sympathetic to the Yeadon / Rancourt position that no novel pathogen was required to create the appearance of a ‘pandemic’ and if I had to choose would lean towards this view.
The problem I’ve got is that in the summer of 2020 I fell mildly ill in a completely unremarkable fluey type way but then suddenly lost my taste and smell completely, took a lateral flow so-called test (don’t worry I would have NEVER done a PCR) and it came back so-called positive. This threw a spanner in my skepticism works.
So given that this was a first-hand experience, I can’t preclude the idea that there was something novel going around.
Ultimately it doesn’t really matter, I’m certain that the so-called virus and so-called vaccine were part of the same biological attack. I’m more interested in the whodunnit and why.
Totally agree crisisgarden- I got ill in July 2021 – & had a lateral flow test kit that was +ve – actually had to retire to bed and chew paracetamol for a couple of days – not terribly well with temperature and cough. Smell and taste vanished and I have never got it back. I’m in my late 60s – so had plenty of flu and colds in my life but nothing prepared me for this smell and taste loss to be so permanent. Nothing ever has affected me in this way so I reckon it was/is a novel virus and suspiciously man-made IMO. I got the milder version early the next year and I was just abit tired! Bloody people who inflicted this on everyone and how could anyone not think is was an escape from a lab doing gain of function? The bleeding obvious or what.
I’m sorry to hear that and hope it comes back: I’ve read there are ways to train your senses to gradually return. It was very weird when it happened to me and I would have hated it to be permanent.
Given the highly coordinated nature of the totality of events we witnessed, I’m hard pressed to believe that anything about it was accidental. If this was indeed a man made ‘virus’, then I have to assume it didn’t ‘leak’…
Thanks CG – I’m OK but losing those critical senses have reduced my quality of life score – cooking – and eating – is something I do (or used to!).
I probably sit on the fence on the reasons behind it – the thought of deliberate attacks on mankind is so inhuman I find it difficult to grasp. I’m more of the Toby camp in that it was just incompetent idiots playing with fire.
I appreciate your problem with a somewhat benign infection back then. The last time I had anything like that was this year, late February. It only lasted a few days, like a typical common cold. I never used any kind of ‘test’ related to it, but several weeks later, I had an appointment with my dentist, and before going there I had to do an online survey, with a section related to Covid-19. It just had a list of about 10 symptoms with yes or no tick boxes, and a time limit. I think if I did that within 4 weeks, they wouldn’t have wanted me in! It doesn’t prove anything though – maybe just defensive bureaucracy.
It’s worth pointing out that the whole losing taste and smell thing is not new. I’d had viruses that had temporarily resulted in this, probably about three times in my 60+ years.
I totally get that – but this has been 3 years and it is not getting better! How temporary is temporary?
For me, probably a couple of months tops. Sorry, I didn’t mean to dismiss what you are going through now, just pointing out that this particular symptom is not new.
Mogs, my science understanding is way behind yours but was it the C1984 causing myocarditis or the clot shots?
The injections were renamed clot shots for a reason.
The virus got the blame to begin with, certainly in 2020. Even now you read articles and papers that state Covid also causes a rise in heart damage, trying to deflect the blame from the death jabs.
Normies loooooove telling us that Covid causes heart problems despite the fact they’ve never met anyone who got a heart problem from Covid. Whatever makes them feel better about their poor decision making I guess!
Can I just make a minor correction here. Drs Pierre Kory and Paul Malik of the FLCCC were both at the very sharp end of acute ICU care when the virus first hit and remain adamant that it’s initial iteration, before it got too far into the population and started to mutate into less virulent forms, was particularly nasty, causing all sorts of cardiac and haematological problems over and above the respiratory assault. I certainly remember reading several initial papers (all later disappeared) from other ICU specialists noting these particular issues, and an early analysis by a Greek medical team (also disappeared) which highlighted it’s ‘curious’ (ie lab-created) affinity for ACE2 receptors which are scattered about various organs but particularly concentrated in the cardiovascular and renal systems, etc. I even remember having a discussion in Jan 2020 with a sibling about how the initial virus appeared to be specifically designed to take out anyone with any degree of cardiac insufficiency. Thus the earlier forms of the disease did and probably still does cause myocarditis (amongst other things), and current strains may still affect those that are susceptible, although at a rate far lower than the jab, because there are billions more of the specifically toxic ACE2-loving spike element in the jab as opposed to whatever is naturally acquired.
Happily stand corrected.. thank you.
My late father-in-law had the ‘flu back in the 80’s and developed atrial fibrillation post flu. OK not myocarditis but still a cardiac condition.
The Swiss paper is especially important because the data is from an ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE STUDY, rather than a PASSIVE reporting system. 1 in 35 (2.8%) of recipients ended up with myocardial injury. Regardless of symptoms (or lack thereof), anyone so diagnosed has a poor chance of long-term survival. Some of knew for sure that this would happen, before the ‘vaccines’ were ever coerced on people, because we know what they are really for, and it ISN’T to prevent anyone catching a cold.
Well Turdeau and his wife are getting a divorce. Is this the part where he shortly comes out as gay? Let’s see…Personally I’m always staggered that certain men like him, Fauci, Micron, Johnson, Hotez etc even attract any women in the first place! What is wrong with these stupid females??
*Honourable shout out to Horse-face’s husband too.* These people are vile.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/08/02/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-and-wife-sophie-announce-separation/
Of course I won’t give in and will keep plodding on, but I ‘feel your pain’ Eugyppius…
It’s becoming unbearable watching the Covid bandwagon carry on, when there is so much actual scientific evidence that the jabs should be stopped altogether, along with the deaths and injuries being studiously ignored…
It was hard enough when it was in full clown world mode..but it’s truly aggravating now, watching them carry on regardless..as though they think anyone believes them anymore? It’s actually mind-boggling…(ditto woke, green, conflicts, WEF, WHO, UN…etc….etc…)
I’ve said this before..I feel like we are in a ‘holding pattern’ waiting for the other shoe to drop..but I’m not convinced it’s going to. Maybe that’s how most things go..out with a whimper..not a bang?
I don’t think we will ever get those figures for the vaccinated and excess deaths….I think they’ll fob-off the vaccine injured for years..as they have always done in the past…. No one will get what they deserve, whether that’s compensation or a conviction……
But I do really believe that for whatever reason(s) a lot of people are seeing through it, and are not taking anymore of the bio-weapons….lets hope so…..!?
Oh just drop it now Eugyppius, let it lie. These things happen. Yes mistakes were made and yes, these things were injected into billions of healthy human beings of all ages and yes, they were deadly and useless and yes, they weren’t necessary and didn’t work and yes, the worst people on earth made billions of dollars from them and yes, people lost their livelihoods, friends and families by refusing to take them and yes, they were sold using sinister deceptive coercion lies and bribery and yes, the manufacturers were given legal immunity beforehand and yes, the clinical trials weren’t clinical trials. The main thing is… what was the main thing again?
The main thing is they knew this beforehand, and therefore it was willful murder. However they are avoiding trial by lies (again!). Why is because they are politicians who are brain dead and know nothing, cannot remember anything, and are therefore unfit to stand trial. Oh but totally fit to be politicians. That is the truth!