Update: ‘Consensus’ Takes Another Hit! More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims! Call Climate Fears ‘Pseudo ‘Religion’; Urge Chancellor to ‘reconsider’ views
[Update: August 9, 2009: Organizers released the names of 64 more scientists who endorse the Open Letter. This brings the total number of skeptical German scientists who signed the letter to over 130.] 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. (See “Related Links” at bottom of this article for more inconvenient scientific developments.) 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 60 plus German Scientists: – German version available here. (emphasis added): Open Letter – Climate Change Bundeskanzleramt Frau Bundeskanzerlin Dr. Angela Merkel Willy-Brandt-Strabe 1 10557 Berlin # VizerprasidentDipl. Ing. Michael Limburg14476 Grob GlienickeRichard-Wagner-Str. 5a E-mail: [email protected] 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 New York last March, approximately 800 leading scientists attended, some of whom are among the world’s best climatologists or specialists in related fields. While the US media and only the Wiener Zeitung (Vienna daily) covered the event, here in Germany the press, public television and radio shut it out. It is indeed unfortunate how our media have developed – under earlier dictatorships the media were told what was not worth reporting. But today they know it without getting instructions. 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 – Paderborn, Abt. Höxter (ret.) # 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 8 Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Buse Bio-chemist 9 Dr.Ing Ivo Busko German Center for Aviation and Aeronautics e.V. 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, Paraguay 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 27 Prof. Dr. Werner Kirstein Institute for Geography University Leipzig 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. 43 Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser University of Regensburg 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. [Update: August 9, 2009: Organizers released the names of 64 more scientists who endorse the Open Letter. This brings the total number of skeptical scientists who signed the letter to over 130.] Ing. stands in german for engineer, (Dipl. Ing or Ing. etc) Dr. Ing ist an engineer with a PhD. – Prof. Dr. Ing has teached as an Professor on a University. Additional Names of German Scientists: Dipl. Ing Paul Allenspacher Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Dipl. Ing M.G. Bury ElektroingenieurDipl. Ing Peter Dettmann technischer UmweltschutzDipl. Ing Jürgen Seesselberg Dipl. Ing Georg Völlink Energie- und VerfahrenstechnikDipl. Ing. Klaus Bark E-TechnikDipl. Ing. Edgar Bätz EVU Leipzig & Institut für EnergetikDipl. Ing. Marco Bernardi Kfz-SachverständigerDipl. Ing. Leonhard Bienert Entwicklung Kernenergie ex DDRDipl. Ing. Paul Bossert ArchitektDipl. Ing. Andreas Demming Selbstständiger Ingenieur, Dipl. Ing. Hakola Dippel FörsterDipl. Ing. Johannes Drosdeck Maschinenbau AutomotiveDipl. Ing. Klaus Emmerich HeizungsbauDipl. Ing. Konrad Fischer ArchitektDipl. Ing. Jürgen Fuchsberger ArchitektDipl. Ing. Horst Gampper Dipl. Ing. Pierre Gosselin Übersetzer Technisches ÜbersetzungsbüroDipl. Ing. Wilfried Heck ElektrotechnikDipl. Ing. Bernd Heinmüller ElektrotechnikDipl. Ing. Andreas Kaluza Bergbau Ing. MetallurgeDipl. Ing. Peter Krah MinR a.D.Dipl. Ing. Raimund Leistenschneider Dipl. Ing. Michael Limburg; electrical engineering, control technology, Vizepräsident Europäisches Institut für Klima und EnergieDipl. Ing. Hainer Müller Dipl. Ing. Hans-Jörg Oehm Regierungsbaumeister für StädtebauDipl. Ing. Jürgen Roesicke Dipl.- Ing. Industrielle MikrobiologieDipl. Ing. Markus Rustemeier Dipl. Ing. Michael Schneider Energie + VerfahrenstechnikDipl. Ing. Jørgen Sørensen EnergieberaterDipl. Ing. Eberhard C. Stotko Präsident VDSt-AkademieDipl. Ing. Erhard Thilo Geschäftsführer a.DDipl. Ing. Horst Trippe Entwicklung AutomotiveDipl. Ing. Walter Vollert Dipl.-Ing. Maschinenwesen Dipl. Ing. Günter Weber Herausgeber Verlagsgruppe ‘markt intern’Dipl. Ing. (BA) Norman Stoer SystemadministratorDipl. Ing. (FH) Gerd Zelck Dipl. Ing. Dipl-Inform. Ewald Gleixner Software-EntwicklungDipl. Ing. FH Johannes Schlorke Elektroniker i. R.Dipl. Ing. FH. Burckhard H. Adam Energie- und Bauberatung Dipl. Ing. M.A. Enno Dittmar Dipl. Ing.oec. Horst Jungnickel ehemals leitender Mitarbeiter in der EnergiewirtschaftIng. grad. Peter Orth Entwicklung Automotive i.R.Ing. grad. Christian Ziekow Ingenieur Jacob Brandt Obering. i.R. Ludwig Lenniger Dr. Ing. Richard Bock Dr. Ing. Wolfgang Brune EnergiewirtschaftlerDr. Ing. Adolf Gärtner Dr. Ing. Peter Geier ErnergiewirtschaftlerDr. Ing. Herbert Heuser Dr. Ing. Dietrich E. Koelle Ingenieurbüro für SystemanalysenDr. Ing. Arman Nyilas IngenieurbüroDr. Ing. Friedrich Wilhelm Peppler KernreaktorsicherheitsexperteDr. Ing. Helmut Pöltelt Energieexperte TETRA Energie GmbH KernenergieDr. Ing. Roland Richter Nuklearservice bei der K.A.B. AG BerlinDr. Ing. Christian Thoma Dr. Ing. Dipl.Ing. Oswald Kreitschitz Physiker und UnternehmenDr. Ing. Kurt Honrath Technischer Vorstand i.R.Prof. a.D. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard RauschenfelsProf. Dr. Ing. Helmut Keutner TFH Berlin FB-VIProf. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hofmann Berufsakademie DresdenProf. Dr.-Ing. Sc. D. Helmut Reihlen Direktor des DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung i.R.Prof. Dr.Ing. Dieter Ameling Präsident Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl a. D.Prof. Dipl. Ing. Michael Otto [End Translation of full German scientist letter] Related Links: Climate Revolt: World’s Largest Science Group ‘Startled’ By Outpouring of Scientists Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears! 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