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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Gen 12.3.
Obadiah 15.
Zech 12.3.
Maker’s Handbook.
Definitely.
Good riddance.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
I can’t imagine how it must be for girls and women in Iran to run the gauntlet every time they leave the house without wearing that universal cloth symbol of subjugation: the dreaded hijab. They are even using drones now in parts of Iran to seek out women who dare to walk freely and unrestricted. So many videos online of females being accosted on the streets by these horrendous, evil ghouls ( many of the ‘morality police’ are female and just require a broomstick or scythe to complete the Halloween outfit ) then bundled into a van and taken away. I remember after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests it was reported that the revolutionary guards were instructed to shoot at the people’s faces, so many civilians fighting for their human rights, and those of their daughters, wives and sisters were blinded as a result. Very courageous people, risking being imprisoned, tortured and executed, which happens regularly under this atrocious Islamic regime. We need these evil bastards who are in charge and sit on the Death Commission to take more helicopter rides ( 2mins );
https://x.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1791499687305916485
“They are even using drones now in parts of Iran to seek out women who dare to walk freely and unrestricted.”
Something they learned from the West? Our governments don’t discriminate though: anyone who dared to walk freely and unrestricted was sought out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52055201
https://pure.strath.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/133820793/Schippers_TheConversation_2020_Coronavirus_drones_used_to_enforce_lockdown.pdf
Women pilots. Tut.
Don’t write any conspiracy theories here, sceptics. Comments will get turned off 😉
PS I am sure this has nothing to do with Mossad.
A pity it wasn’t a Chinook full.
I’ve said for a long time, that if you took the most powerful 1000 people on Earth and fired them into the sun (or put them all into a dodgy helicopter flying through fog), humanity would suddenly become a happier place to be. That’s two down…
Euro post correct
Now who could possibly have organised an unfortunate “accident” like this?
I guess it must have been that evil Putin.
If the US is itching for a nuclear war, they have possibly just shot the first “bullet”.
iran and its allies will not sit quietly while their leaders are being assassinated, who can blame them.
Biden just gave them several Billion Dollars , maybe they forgot to thank him .
Why on earth would anyone be ‘itching for a nuclear war’?
That makes no sense.
The (very old) helicopter had a ‘hard landing’ in harsh weather conditions and heavy fog, as can plainly be seen from footage of the rescue parties at the crash site.
Resident Biden will no doubt blame Trump or Climate Change…….drum roll…..
President Raisi has achieved the rank of Martyr.
Maybe that’s why so many Iranians are celebrating his demise?
Iranians CELEBRATE the death of President Raisi with fireworks while victims of his torturous regime and their loved ones dance and drink a toast to his fatal helicopter crash | Daily Mail Online
“Raisi quickly worked his way to the top – and in doing so earned himself the moniker ‘the Butcher of Tehran’.
As deputy prosecutor and subsequently chief prosecutor, Raisi stood on the so-called ‘death committee’ – a group of four judges who presided over tribunals in 1988 that were assembled to ‘re-try’ the regime’s political prisoners.
Thousands of these prisoners were ruthlessly executed and dumped in unmarked graves. The exact number of deaths is not known but rights groups estimate roughly 5,000 people were killed following Raisi’s brutal judgement.”
Moment Iranian woman blinded by ‘morality police’ smiles & dances after president’s death as cops crush protest parties | The Irish Sun (thesun.ie)
“Women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad wrote on X that the helicopter crash was “the only crash in history where everyone is worried if someone survived”.”
What I don’t understand is why “The Butcher of Tehran” could get away with slaughtering 5000 Muslims and dumping them in mass graves, without being captured, dragged to The Hague as an international criminal, and imprisoned for the rest of his life.
You know, like the Serb leaders were, and still are, for allegedly slaughtering 8000 Muslims.