and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 02/12/2012 9:36:56 AM PST by dennisw
“THE CO2 LIES … pure fear-mongering … should we blindly trust the experts?”
That’s what Germany’s leading daily Bild (see photo) wrote in its print and online editions today, on the very day that renowned publisher Hoffmann & Campe officially released a skeptic book – one written by a prominent socialist and environmental figure.
This is huge. More than I ever could have possibly imagined. And more is coming in the days ahead! The Bild piece was just the first of a series.
Mark this as the date that Germany’s global warming movement took a massive body blow.
Today, not one, but two of Germany’s most widely read news media published comprehensive skeptical climate science articles in their print and online editions, coinciding with the release of a major climate skeptical book, Die kalte Sonne (The Cold Sun).
Germany has now plunged into raucus discord on the heated topic of climate change
What has set it all off? One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”
Vahrenholt decided to do some digging. His colleague Dr. Lüning also gave him a copy of Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion. He was horrified by the sloppiness and deception he found. Persuaded by Hoffmann & Campe, he and Lüning decided to write the book. Die kalte Sonne cites 800 sources and has over 80 charts and figures. It examines and summarizes the latest science.
Conclusion: climate catastrophe is called off
The science was hyped. The book started hitting the bookshops today and has already hit no. 1 on the Amazon.de list for environment books. Indications show that it will climb very high in the overall bestseller charts. It’s published by a renowned publishing house and is now sending shock waves through the German climate science establishment. The first printing will produce 20,000 copies. I expect they will sell out rather quickly.
Today Germany’s national tabloid Bild (which has a whopping circulation of 16 million) devoted half of page 2 on an article called:
THE CO2 LIE
Renowned team of scientists claim the climate catastrophe is fear-mongering by politics“
The widely read Bild will follow with the rest of the series in the days ahead. In part I today Bild presents “What the IPCC of the UN doesn’t tell you.” Bild asks “what if the IPCC is wrong? Can we really blindly trust these experts? Are they really independent?”
Bild then writes:
The phenomenal prognoses of heat from the IPCC are pure fear-mongering.”
The Bild series is sure to cause radical environmentalists to seethe and lash out. Expect an all-out assault in the days and weeks ahead. Already the reaction from activists has been swift and virulent – though they have yet to read the book.
They never wanted the debate – and now the dam has broken
And the floods of skepticism are sweeping over the country. Worse, Germany’s flagship weekly news magazine Der Spiegel today also featured a 4-page exclusive interview with Vahrenholt, where he repeated that the IPCC has ignored a large part of climate science and that IPCC scientists exaggerated the impact of CO2 on climate. Vahrenholt said that by extending the known natural cycles of the past into the future, and taking CO2′s real impact into effect, we should expect a few tenths of a degree of cooling.
At a press conference today in Berlin, Vahrenholt, Lüning and publisher Hoffmann & Campe introduced the book and answered reporters’ questions. When asked why Hoffmann & Campe decided to publish “such a book”, the spokesman simply answered that the time is right – and there’s a real audience for the book. Even the weather timing was right! Germany is now experiencing it’s worst cold snap in 26 years. That makes it hard to deny lack of warming.
It needs to be pointed out Vahrenholt and Lüning are not skeptics; they are lukewarmers who have not been able to find any evidence of a coming climate catastrophe. They believe that man should switch to renewables, but do so in a rational manner: “Work fast, but don’t hurry.”
Skeptic readers should not think that the book will fortify their existing skepticism of CO2 causing warming. The authors agree it does. but have major qualms about the assumed positive CO2-related feed-backs and believe the sun plays a far greater role in the whole scheme of things.
The book cites more than 800 sources – including the latest peer-reviewed literature. It includes more than 80 graphics that clearly illustrate that all is not well with the claims made by alarmist science. It is written so that laymen can easily digest the material and it provides a comprehensive overview of the science and where it stands today.
The book has also infuriated the AGW leadership in Germany. For example, academia. University of Osnabrück took the step of dis-inviting Professor Vahrenholt who was scheduled to give a speech on February 8. The University claimed that Vahrenholt’s skeptical views were “provocative”. Also the centre-left SPD party, where Vahrenholt is a member, has been deafeningly silent.
This cat is out of the bag – and it’s not going back in.
The authors have set up a website for Die kalte Sonne here.
FUBO and all the other Global Warming scammers who try to tax us to pay for mythical CO2 warming. FU all who try to stop the Keystone pipeline and shut down coal burning power plants due to phoney global warming hype
FUBO and all the other Global Warming scammers who try to tax us to pay for mythical CO2 warming. FU all who try to stop the Keystone pipeline and shut down coal burning power plants due to phoney global warming hype
This would be a good time to have a pan-EU referendum on weather(sic) the people want warmer or colder winters.
(( ping ))
Basically, Australia is the only place left where they still have their heads up their behinds.
Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:
Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.
The global warming hoax and scam was the world’s largest government funded, “green jobs” program. Those people are going to have a very difficult time finding real jobs if the scam falls apart.
The global warming hoax and scam was the world’s largest government funded, “green jobs” program. Those people are going to have a very difficult time finding real jobs if the scam falls apart.
There are so many genuine environmental problems to worry about. It’s been frustrating to go to scientific conferences and see problems like the die-offs of amphibians, bees, and bats being brushed off as “caused by global warming” by scientists who should know better. Instead of passing everything off as a result of global warming, how about studying the actual problems?
It’s not just that everything is brushed off as a consequence of global warming, but that research funding is directed towards global warming “studies” (which usually take the form of explaining the effects of global warming, instead of ascertaining whether the hypothesis is even correct). We don’t need more money shunted off to theorizing in the absence of empirical data; we need money directed towards finding out why bats in the northeast are dying by the millions from fungal infections.
Well, here’s hoping the global warming skeptics keep raising questions. It’s time to put this red herring behind us and start to focus on the real environmental problems.
I guess part of the problem is that finding out what is killing off frogs, and taking steps to reverse the problem, doesn’t involve forcing everyone to live a more primitive lifestyle.
Thanks dennisw.
Oh yeah... And California, lol.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time......”
We used to have a group of Global Warming believers on Free Republic. What happened to them?
I’m glad I read down this thread, before I smacked you for your gross over sight...lol.
Jerry Brown and CA are stark raving mad, full-blown HOAXers.
It’s sickening.
When can we have our light bulbs back?
I think body blow is an understatement. When Bild and Der Spiegel both give this overwhelming coverage, we have a GAME CHANGER here. Basically, it’s over - the entire basis of the climate change movement.
I suspect that the powers in Germany did some math and figured out that bailing out Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and who knows who else is simply too darn expensive, while letting their economies collapse due to their self-imposed end of electricity and other fuel. In other words, without action, they see serious stuff happening in Europe, such as wars and starvation.
...given all that, it looks at though the adults stepped in (finally), and told the little children that their fun in trying to save the world from a non-existent monster was over, and that Europe badly needs to get its act together immediately and end this nightmare.
Don’t be surprised one bit if the same thing happens regarding Islam. Europeans may look like cowed sissies now, but, like the above, they can turn 180 degrees on a dime and the Muzzie will have no clue what hit them.
Der Spiegel came out with an anti-Global Warming article earlier this week.
Here is the FR post and here is the original link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2844467/posts
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html
“I Feel Duped on Climate Change”
Better lump AGW fanboy Newt Gingrich in to that camp.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
