German scientists reject man-made global warming
Spero News ^ | 6/5/2009 | Marc Morano
Posted on Wednesday,
August 05, 2009 2:19:56 PM by markomalley
More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared
their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an open letter to German
Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include
several United Nations IPCC scientists.
The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and
they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The
German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific
credibility.”
This latest development comes on the heels of a series of inconvenient
developments for the promoters of man-made global warming fears, including new
peer-reviewed studies, real world data, a growing chorus of scientists
dissenting (including more UN IPCC scientists), open revolts in scientific
societies and the Earth's failure to warm. In addition, public opinion
continues to turn against climate fear promotion.
The July 26, 2009 German scientist letter urged Chancellor Merkel to “strongly
reconsider” her position on global warming and requested a “convening of an
impartial panel” that is “free of ideology” to counter the UN IPCC and review
the latest climate science developments.
The
scientists, from many disciplines, including physicists, meteorology,
chemistry, and geology, explain that “humans have had no measurable effect on
global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the temperature fluctuations have
been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles.”
“More importantly, there's a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2
plays no measurable role,” the scientists wrote. “Indeed CO2's capability to
absorb radiation is almost exhausted by today's atmospheric concentrations. If
CO2 did indeed have an effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional
warming over the long term would in fact remain limited to only a few tenths of
a degree,” they added.
“The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during
its studies of 160 years of temperature measurements and 150 years of
determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific
credibility,” the scientists wrote.
“Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 – more than 10 years, and the
global temperature has even dropped significantly since 2003. Not one of the
many extremely expensive climate models predicted this. According to the IPCC,
it was supposed to have gotten steadily warmer, but just the opposite has
occurred,” the scientists wrote.
“The belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has become a
pseudo-religion,” the scientists wrote. “The German media has sadly taken a
leading position in refusing to publicize views that are critical of
anthropogenic global warming,” they added.
“Do you not believe, Madam Chancellor, that science
entails more than just confirming a hypothesis, but also involves testing to
see if the opposite better explains reality? We strongly urge you to reconsider
your position on this subject and to convene an impartial panel for the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, one that is free of ideology, and where
controversial arguments can be openly debated. We the undersigned would very
much like to offer support in this regard.
Full Text of Translated Letter by
more than 60 German Scientists:
Open Letter –
Bundeskanzleramt
Frau Bundeskanzerlin Dr.
Willy-Brandt-Strabe 1
10557
Vizerprasident
Dipl. Ing. Michael Limburg
14476 Grob Glienicke
Richard-Wagner-Str. 5a
E-mail: limburg@grafik-system.de
Grob Glienicke 26.07.09
To the attention of the Honorable Madam Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany:
When one studies history, one learns that the development of societies is often
determined by a zeitgeist, which at times had detrimental or even horrific
results for humanity. History tells us time and again that political leaders
often have made poor decisions because they followed the advice of advisors who
were incompetent or ideologues and failed to recognize it in time. Moreover
evolution also shows that natural development took a wide variety of paths with
most of them leading to dead ends. No era is immune from repeating the mistakes
of the past.
Politicians
often launch their careers using a topic that allows them to stand out. Earlier
as Minister of the Environment you legitimately did this as well by assigning a
high priority to climate change. But in doing so you committed an error that
has since led to much damage, something that should have never happened,
especially given the fact you are a physicist. You confirmed that climate
change is caused by human activity and have made it a primary objective to
implement expensive strategies to reduce the so-called greenhouse gas CO2. You
have done so without first having a real discussion to check whether early
temperature measurements and a host of other climate related facts even justify
it.
A real comprehensive study, whose value would have been absolutely essential,
would have shown, even before the IPCC was founded, that humans have had no
measurable effect on global warming through CO2 emissions. Instead the
temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural
cycles. Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 – more than 10 years,
and the global temperature has even dropped significantly since 2003.
Not one of the many extremely expensive climate models predicted this.
According to the IPCC, it was supposed to have gotten steadily warmer, but just
the opposite has occurred.
More importantly, there's a growing body of evidence showing anthropogenic CO2
plays no measurable role. Indeed CO2's capability to absorb radiation is almost
exhausted by today's atmospheric concentrations. If CO2 did indeed have an
effect and all fossil fuels were burned, then additional warming over the long
term would in fact remain limited to only a few tenths of a degree.
The IPCC had to have been aware of this fact, but completely ignored it during
its studies of 160 years of temperature measurements and 150 years of
determined CO2 levels. As a result the IPCC has lost its scientific
credibility. The main points on this subject are included in the accompanying
addendum.
In the meantime, the belief of climate change, and that it is manmade, has
become a pseudo-religion. Its proponents, without thought, pillory independent
and fact-based analysts and experts, many of whom are the best and brightest of
the international scientific community. Fortunately in the internet it is
possible to find numerous scientific works that show in detail there is no
anthropogenic CO2 caused climate change. If it was not for the internet,
climate realists would hardly be able to make their voices heard. Rarely do
their critical views get published.
The German media has sadly taken a leading position in refusing to publicize
views that are critical of anthropogenic global warming. For example, at the
second International Climate Realist Conference on Climate in
Do you not believe, Madam Chancellor, that science
entails more than just confirming a hypothesis, but also involves testing to
see if the opposite better explains reality? We strongly urge you to reconsider
your position on this subject and to convene an impartial panel for the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, one that is free of ideology, and where
controversial arguments can be openly debated. We the undersigned would very
much like to offer support in this regard.
Respectfully yours,
Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Friedrich-Karl Ewert EIKE
Diplom-Geologe
Universität. - GH -
Dr. Holger
Thuß
EIKE President
European Institute for Climate and Energy
http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/
Signed by
Scientists
1 Prof. Dr.Ing. Hans-Günter Appel
2 Prof. Dr.
hab. Dorota Appenzeller Professor of Econometrics and Applied Mathematics, Vice
Dean University Poznan, Poland
3 Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bachmann Former Director of the Institute for Vibration
Engineering, FH Düsseldorf
4 Prof. Dr. Hans Karl Barth Managing Director World Habitat Society GmbH -
Environmental Services
5 Dipl. Biologist Ernst Georg Beck
6 Dr. rer.nat. Horst Borchert Physicist
7 Dipl. Biol. Helgo Bran Former BW parliamentarian Green Party
9
10 Dr.Ing Gottfried Class Nuclear Safety, Thermo-hydraulics
11 Dr.Ing
Urban Cleve Nuclear physicist, thermodynamics energy
specialist
12 Dr.-Ing Rudolf-Adolf Dietrich Energy expert
13 Dipl.-Ing. Peter Dietze IPCC Expert Reviewer TAR
14 Dr. rer. nat Siegfried Dittrich Physical chemist
15 Dr. Theo Eichten Physicist
16 Ferroni Ferruccio Zurich President NIPCC-SUISSE
17 Dr. sc.agr. Albrecht Glatzle Agricultural biologist, Director científico INTTAS,
18 Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Jürgen Goldmann Geologist
19 Dr. rer. nat. Josef Große-Wördem Physical chemist
20 Dipl.
Geologist Heinisch Heinisch
21 Dr. rer.nat. Horst Herman Chemist
22 Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Hinz Former University of Münster Institute for
Physical Chemistry
23 Dipl. Geologist Andreas Hoemann Geologist
24 Dipl. Geologist Siegfried Holler
25 Dr. rer.nat. Heinz Hug Chemiker
26 Dr. rer. nat. Bernd
Hüttner Theoretical Physicist
28 Dipl. Meteorologe Klaus Knüpffer METEO SERVICE weather research GmbH
29 Dr. rer. hort. Werner Köster
30 Dr. rer.nat. Albert Krause Chemist
31 Drs. Hans Labohm IPCC AR4 Expert Reviewer Dipl. Business / science
journalist
32 Dr. Rainer Link Physicist
33 Dipl. Physicist Alfred Loew
34 Prof. Dr. Physicist Horst-Joachim Lüdecke University for Engineering and
business of Saarland
35 Prof. Dr. Horst Malberg University professor em. Meteorology and Climatology
/ Former Director of the Institute for Meteorology of the University of Berlin
36 Dr. rer.nat Wolfgang Monninger Geologist
37 Dipl. Meteorologist Dieter Niketta
38 Prof. Dr.
Klemens Oekentorp Former director of the Geological-
Paleolontology Museum of the Westphalia Wilhelms-University Münster
39 Dr. Helmut Pöltelt Energy expert
40 Dipl. Meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls Meteorologist
41 Prof. Dr. Klaas Rathke Polytechnic OWL Dept. Höxter
42 rof. Dr.-Ing. Sc. D. Helmut Reihlen Director of the DIN German Institute for
Standards and Norms i.R.
44 Dipl. Physicist Wolfgang Riede Physicists ETH
45 Dipl.-
Mineralogist Sabine Sauerberg Geoscientist
46 Prof. Jochen Schnetger Chemist
47 Prof. Dr. Sigurd Schulien University instructor
48 Dr. rer.nat. Franz Stadtbäumer Geologist
49 Dr. rer.nat. Gerhard Stehlik
Physical chemist
50 Dipl. Ing. (BA) Norman Stoer System administrator
51 Dr. rer.nat.habil Lothar Suntheim Chemist
52 Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Thieme Technical assessor
53 Dr. phil. Dipl. Wolfgang Thüne Mainz Ministry of
Environment Meteorologist
54 Dr. rer. oec. Ing.
Dietmar Ufer Energy economist, Institute for Energy
Leipzig
55 Prof. Dr. Detlef von Hofe Former managing director of the DVS
56 Dipl Geographist Heiko Wiese Meteorologist
57 Dr.rer.nat. Erich Wiesner Euro Geologist
58 Dr.rer.nat. Ullrich Wöstmann Geologist
59 Prof. em. Dr. Heinz Zöttl Soil
Sciences
60 Dr.rer.nat. Zucketto Chemist
61 Dr. rer.nat. Ludwig Laus Geologist
+ 6 others
And 189 concerned active citizens, many with distinguished professional titles.