Uh oh, somebody in Germany in a position to influence others in the Green movement has started thinking for himself, shrugging off suggestions from a climate scientist that “its all in his head”.
Pierre Gosselin reports about a story by lefty journalist Harald Martenstein of Die Zeit:
“I was ready to open my home to the Schröders as soon as they would no longer be able to take the 60°C heat in the shade. But instead it got colder and colder. At Uckermark in the wintertime it was -20°C for weeks.”
Martenstein also noticed that Britain had endured its coldest winter in 30 years, Florida got covered by icicles, and the cold seemed to be spreading everywhere. So he pleaded that people should emit more CO2 – so that he could stay warm.
His plea, however, prompted an invitation from a “scientist at a very nice climate institute“:
He showed me tables and graphs that clearly depicted it was getting warmer. He believed that I was just a victim of my own subjective imagination. Memory can fool you. One thinks that during childhood it was warm from May to September, but in reality its was warm only 3 days, and it is those 3 days that one remembers intensively. The tables from climate scientists, on the other hand, do not lie.”
Martenstein then recounts the past winter and how it seemed to him as being the longest and hardest he could remember, but telling himself that it was probably just his warped subjectivity acting up again. He writes:
But suddenly I read in the paper that a number of climate scientists had changed their minds. Now they were saying it is not going to get warmer, but colder, at least in Europe. Whatever happened to the tables I now ask myself.”
This kind of science would never fly in biology or physics, Martenstein writes. ”But with climate science it seems they are allowed to get away with everything.”
Read it all here:
Mother Of German Green Weeklies, Die Zeit, Shocks Readers…Now Casts Doubt On Global Warming!
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I’ve wondered how journalistic institutions that have staked their reputations on AGW dogma will climb down. I wrote about it here: http://talkingabouttheweather.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/what-will-the-climb-down-look-like/
(I see the linked image is missing; note to self!)
Mark Serreze got it right – although he wasn’t talking about the right thing. He should have been talking about the CAGW scam when he said: “In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly”.
“We have always been at war with Eurasia.”
forget about the long term trend, it’s all about the rate of change 😉 ( of opinion, in this case )
Off topic some but Perfect example of why you can not use temperature readings from present city locations and compared to the past. Urban heat islands growing around old temperature gauge locations. https://mobile.twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/325244638355140609
“So he pleaded that people should emit more CO2 – so that he could stay warm”.
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Then he still doesn’t get it.
Reversing the perceptions of AGW is a journey, not a destination. It took the alarmists years to make “global warming” a household term. Even with facts and observations on the side of the skeptics, TRUE science will have a hard time overcoming the religion of the AGW crowd. That being said, We may be starting to see a chink or two in their armor.
The fun thing is Die Zeit is the social-democrat Leitorgan, SPD ex chancellor Helmut Schmidt is publisher. Die Zeit has been a leading alarmist medium, now that guy tries a climbdown, coated in slightly satirical language. He gets ravaged by his readers of course; making fun of the State Religion is strictly verboten.
And related, SPD is dropping below 20% in approval rating of their contendor for the chancellor office, Steinbrück, for the elections in autumn. Look what you’ve done cursed AGW, I’m melting, melting!
I have made a number of comments lately suggesting that once the dam breaks the flood will begin. It has started! Hoo-Rah. It must be very uncomfortabe being a warmist scientist or politician They’re suffering the heat they dreamed we would.
I don’t think that the AGW dogma will ever be explicitly withdrawn. It will simply be quietly buried under the next big crisis (e.g. the total collapse of the global economy). But we shall still be told that we have to surrender to an unelected world government. Whatever the problem, the solution never varies.
My belief in computer models tells me that it is getting warmer.
My real life experience tells me it is getting colder.
Gradually, beliefs yield to the dictates of reality
1.AGW journalists will not have much difficulty finding exit strategies. After all they only “objectively and dispassionately report on the consensus of the time”! It will hardly be their fault if the fickle scientific community changes its mind.
2. Scientists who change their minds will take credit for their openness and skepticism and for having the “courage” to change.
3. Die-hard doom-sayers will continue with their doom-saying but push it out into the future beyond their lifetimes such that the predictions of doom cannot be tested.
I’ve noticed that Pierre Gosselin & notrickszone.com is a good blog. “Climate news from Germany in English.” It seems to highlight central stuff that really cuts to the heart of the agw bs. Interesting, in this case, Martenstein bought a home in northern Germany in anticipation of it getting warmer, instead it just got “colder and colder.” Kind of like someone buying desert property in California thinking soon it will be valuable beachfront property. Of course, in 5 decades, based on then and now personal observations by California people alive then and now, there has been NO sea level rise in California. In 50 years at least, no sea rise. Look at Malibu where the $20 million celebrity beachfront homes stand in front of a beach and sea that is exactly the same as it was circa 1970. Exactly. No sea level change. None. Forget the “data.”
Rating points are the cobblestones on the road to hell.
Without a discussion thread about this extraordinary change to WUWT commentary format, I’ve nowhere else to comment.
But wait! Here is a well know American politician who blames the Boston Bombings on-
Ready.-Wait.-Climate.-Change.
http://politicker.com/2013/04/governor-cuomo-says-boston-bombing-part-of-new-normal/
Not only has it been cold this German winter but they have now just had 5 very in a row! Cold and snow. It’s also been the darkest winter in 43 years. Now read here about their predictions for milder, less snowy winters for Germany and Europe.
when they’re not pushing a agenda, the MSM is pushing the nee for “diversity,” of everything.
Except diversity of opinions about one of their many sacred cows. The MSM apparently doesn’t even read its own garbage.
“Then he still doesn’t get it.”
It’s called irony.
If this publication, and this writer, really are at the heart of Orthodoxy and its promotion in Germany, this really is The End.
This has passed through any doubts and uncertainty to open mockery.
It really is extraordinary when, as Stan Stendera above puts it, the “dam breaks”, how rapidly this spreads.
It is indicative of a long gestation of doubts which have not been allowed to be expressed through obligation to social conformity.
Where it is present to the degree shown by this writer, and allowed to be published in this journal, it is certain that there are a multitude of people on the edge of complete capitulation to reality.
Now they were saying it is not going to get warmer, but colder, at least in Europe.
I think the European winters and early spring (I hope it isn’t rest of the year) may be entering new colder climate regime, which is noticeable on this graph I produced only yesterday (some of you may have seen already)
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-daily.htm
Just compare first 3 months of 2012 and 2013, and you can see what I mean. In 2012 there was a short cold spell, but then the temperatures return to establish a trend of about 1.3C below average. In the early months of this year that distance is increasing; looks as a new even colder ‘regime’ may be on the cards, I hope not, it is cold enough as it is.
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“Florida got covered by icicles”
Well that certainly isn’t true. It seems that warmers can’t get it right even when they are trying to get it right.
Ever notice how the gullible politicians are the last to understand the obvious?
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Luther Wu says:
April 19, 2013 at 8:58 am
Rating points are the cobblestones on the road to hell.
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The crazy resurgence of colder winters has been an embarrassing lesson for climate scientists. If they could get it so wrong for milder winters then how much confidence should we place on the IPCC’s thermageddon projections? It’s also diverging badly from reality yet I am the denialist. Sheesh!