Henrik Svensmark collapses at Copenhagen

This is tragic, and hard to watch.

[NOTE: I’ve moved the video below the “read more” line, don’t go there if you don’t want to watch. I’ve put up his picture here instead. -A]

Good news- I found this Danish News report. (Google Translation)

He’s apparently OK for now. He wears a pacemaker and apparently it did something.

Good luck and godspeed to him.

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Ron de Haan
December 13, 2009 5:46 pm

Copenhagen stalls decision on catastrophic climate change for six years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6955237.ece

VG
December 13, 2009 5:54 pm

Very Interesting “climategate” is now autosuggesting again on google. This means probably that they would have seen a significant shift to bing or others and the boss then decided to override the warmistas there so as not to lose market share. It suggests that there are a LOT of people typing climategate

Editor
December 13, 2009 5:55 pm

I believe I know why his pacemaker went haywire: cheap electronic ballasts. That stage display looks like its illuminated by electronic ballasts, which if they are cheap, emit a LOT of EMI and harmonic feedback into the electrical circuits nearby.

MikeN
December 13, 2009 6:01 pm

We see from the e-mails that they were pleased by Jon Daly’s death…

Nick
December 13, 2009 6:12 pm

Please do everything to keep the real scientist healthy!!!

niphredilflower
December 13, 2009 6:16 pm

Nooooooooo! hes my hero. He has to see the day his work gets full deserving recognition. May God bless him and I hope his family are with him and help him to rest.
Just emailed him, hope he gets it, what an inpiration he is!

Doug in Seattle
December 13, 2009 6:17 pm

Ron de Haan (17:46:00) :
Copenhagen stalls decision on catastrophic climate change for six years.

Now if only the EPA were to review the IPCC conclusions before they decide to regulate.

u.k.(us)
December 13, 2009 6:27 pm

this is only a test case by the powers that be:
Ron de Haan (17:46:00) :
Copenhagen stalls decision on catastrophic climate change for six years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6955237.ece

Bart Nielsen
December 13, 2009 6:27 pm

God’s blessings to you, Dr. Svensmark. Swift recovery.

December 13, 2009 6:28 pm

Thank science he’s going to be alright!

Bill in Vigo
December 13, 2009 6:33 pm

My Prayer is that Dr. Svensmark receive a hasty recovery and a complete restoration of health. God bless him.
Bill Derryberry

Aligner
December 13, 2009 6:36 pm

Sicko timed article from one Steve Connor at the Independent:
“Sun sets on sceptics’ case against climate change”
Old regurgitated rubbish complete with Harry Potter trainee wizard opinion long since discredited. So why rush it out again, today of all days?

“So there is no need to invoke a complicated explanation for global warming involving disputed data on sunspots, cosmic rays and clouds, as some sceptics continue to do. The answer lies not in elaborate suppositions, but in the science and the data we can trust.”

Yeah, right!

u.k.(us)
December 13, 2009 6:37 pm

at risk of calling it too early, REASON WINS !
Ron de Haan (17:46:00) :
Copenhagen stalls decision on catastrophic climate change for six years
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6955237.ece
i hope this is right.

Antonio San
December 13, 2009 6:57 pm

Wishing Dr. Svensmark a speedy recovery.

Jeremy
December 13, 2009 6:57 pm

Speedy recovery for Henrik. You must get better soon. We desperately need and appreciate great talent like yourself.
I have read the Chilling Stars by Nigel Calder and I am very supportive of the research that Henrik is doing. I appreciate his efforts to try and shed new light on the complex climate conundrum. Whether he is right or wrong on his hypothesis – the book and several papers I have had the pleasure of reading suggest that he is a very very very very very rare breed these days, almost an extinct race, a true scientist!
Sadly I cannot say the same for the vast majority of politically or industry motivated nonsense out there that is couched as “science”…but Henrik is a bright bright light….may he recover and continue to shine!

Michael
December 13, 2009 6:57 pm

Aligner (18:36:32) :
Sicko timed article from one Steve Connor at the Independent:
“Sun sets on sceptics’ case against climate change”
I’d like to clustersource that article and redact all the errors, suppositions, and misleading language. At least the pacemaker incident will help shine light on Henrik’s work. If it had not been for that, the media wouldn’t have even noticed.
Query;
Are successive years of reduced irradiation due to solar minimum Cumulative?

CalGrad
December 13, 2009 7:11 pm

I don’t want to watch the vid–my dad also had one of those, and it was grim when it occasionally went off. But it did what it was supposed to do and saved his life, more than once.
Thank God for modern medicine.

Bill Parsons
December 13, 2009 7:13 pm

He’s a composed and dignified guy, softspoken in the interviews and debates I’ve seen. I hope he gets well soon.

Lance from BC
December 13, 2009 7:14 pm

All best wishes and a speedy recovery to Dr. Svensmark .

pwl
December 13, 2009 7:15 pm

Ouch, that’s gotta hurt. Get well soon Dr. Svensmark.

December 13, 2009 7:28 pm

I pray for the speediest of recoveries for the good Doctor!

John
December 13, 2009 7:30 pm

I didn’t watch the video but hope things go well for the good doctor.

Hangtime55
December 13, 2009 7:34 pm

It’s been a strange time in Denmark this year.

Squidly
December 13, 2009 7:34 pm

If I understand correctly, Kookenhagen has decided to delay until 2015 or so. I am a little confused, but this does sound like good news does it not?
Or, are there other slight-of-hand agreements still in the works there? I am very suspicious when they do things like this. As has amply been demonstrated by the Obama administration, things like this usually mean that the “other hand” is doing something even worse.
Anyone have any further discussion on the details about this announcement?
And all my best wishes to Mr. Svensmark!!! He is certainly one of the most important people in science today.

J.Hansford
December 13, 2009 7:36 pm

As long as he is ok, that’s the main thing.
I’d say Dr Svensmark will be cursing his luck at the timing of this ill turn of health.
It’s not often one gets a world hearing as an AGW skeptic or as a ordinary scientist slogging through the thankless task of presenting new concepts to hostile colleagues.