Here’s a bit of interesting news from a Dutch newspaper. WUWT readers may recall this story:
Scientist quits: ‘I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws up science that badly.’ Henk Tennekes Resigns from Dutch Academy. Now there is a new twist to the story.
From Lawrence Solomon: De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest daily newspaper, has totally vindicated the country’s most prominent global warming denier in a prominent article entitled “Henk Tennekes – He was right after all.”
Tennekes was the director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, when his skepticism of the climate science coming out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to his forced resignation.
A translation into English of De Telegraaf’s vindication appears here.
Translation by: Richard Sumner (UK)
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Glad to see the article. Not so glad to see the descriptor “denier”. Its been thrown around so much that people have seemingly forgotten its origin and the terrible smear that it was intended to be on skeptics. Its use should be resisted as much as the lies it was intended to shield.
Thank you, Henk Tennekes, for having the courage to speak the truth.
May the tiny trickle of the climategate leak expand into a thorough flush of the filth that has infected the news media, research institutions and scientific journals.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Emeritus Professor of
Nuclear & Space Sciences
Former NASA PI for Apollo
“He was right after all”
What exactly was he right about? About the only bit of science in the whole article sounds like a reference to the Argo floats, before Willis found his error.
The rest is opinions, in the eye of the beholder.
REPLY: yes much like yours, except expressed by a newspaper writer with a name, not a phantom.
I like this guy.Seems like the crowd didn’t like a scientist being among them.Too bad it’s been so long for him to be recognized as being sane let alone right.
“And it undergoes
crazy physiological changes during
the flight. All of its fat and half of
its flight muscles are burned up by
the time it reaches its destination.
Even its heart has shrunk. People
have no idea of the flexibility of
living things! “
A flying machine that consumes itself for fuel:I am awe-struck.
The IPCC certainly found it’s handbasket.
One of the first things I came across when looking into AGW 2 years ago was the list of corrections they intended to apply, irregardless of the consequences.
Frightening, yes, much more so than any Global Warming.
I prefer to call the mindset that is bent on applying such measures “Tired of Living”.
Ah,that bit about the Upper layers of Ocean is something I have been wondering about myself.Nino’s crashing like a cheap kite.Joe Bastardi’s European Blog has
some interesting comments about the next Nina.Let’s put it this way i’m not selling my F-150 anytime soon…
This is very good and it provides a big push for the skeptics in a country that was almost sleeping and now slowly wakes up.
Of course it should have been published on the front page but a la, you can’t have it all.
I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Ing. Tennekes for all his work and his courage to stand up for his opinion when everybody else is howling with the wolfs.
He truly is a great person.
I also would like to thank the Journalist and his newspaper for publishing this.
feeling quite depressed after reading scores of articles on de boer today. virtually none, from the right or the left, referred to any problem with the science and all tried to place a positive spin on the story. how any media could report this story without referring to climategate or other ‘gates’
boggles the mind. this is the only bright spot:
Business Week: De Boer Quits UN Post in ‘Sad Day’ for Carbon Market (Update2)
“It’s a sad day for the carbon market, and we’ll be lucky to get somebody with Yvo’s dedication and hard work as a successor,” Trevor Sikorski, an emissions analyst for Barclays Capital in London, said today in an interview..
De Boer’s resignation “adds to the uncertainty of the political process that is hopefully going to create the context for an international market going forward,” Alessandro Vitelli, director of strategy in London at carbon markets analyst IDEAcarbon, said today in a telephone interview. “It’s a slight knock to the guys buying and selling carbon.”…
De Boer said he decided to resign so he could spend more time with his family, approach climate change from a business angle rather than a political one, and because he felt the Copenhagen accord showed the world is “politically committed to moving forward.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-18/de-boer-quits-un-climate-post-in-sad-day-for-carbon-market.html
I’ve noticed on the last couple of threads that the trolls seem to have become tad strident of late, must of been something they read. Kinda reminds me of group of pekingese yapping in all their diminutive fury.
CO2 exile? Now there’s a new twist.
To quote the Marx Bros.,
“Why a duck?”
(see pic above)
Carbon market….tulip market…hmm. When will the “greatest fool” market kick in?
carrot eater (20:05:45) :
The rest is opinions, in the eye of the beholder.
He is not alone.
I happen to share many of his opinions.
The tragedy is not his, time bore him out.
The good intentioned people who never bother themselves to inspect what they are getting into: those are the tragic victims. In another way of expressing things, evil prefers its useful idiots to be spoon fed.
Ditto on the courage observation ! How many others had to change the way they approached their careers with concerns over the group acceptance factor ?
One thing becoming more and more obvious is the far reaching effects of advocacy groups like WWF – pure eco evil.
I like this guy too. I appreciate his frustrations. I appreciate the ruination of a noble career simply because he adhered to scientific principles. And I bet there are a lot of others who have similarly had their careers stalled, or worse. And even more who were too scared to speak up because they have seen what happens to the likes of Mr. Tennekes.
Similarly in politics, any politician who stood up and said, “Hey wait a minute! Not sure about this rush to save the planet. Not sure the science is settled” was branded a dinosaur and slaughtered by the media. So no politician has dared stand up and end their career so decisively.
Where is the humility in the scientific community? It seems to have flown out the window in proportion to the quantity of research funding which has flown in.
pat (20:21:55) :
Depressed? No need to be. What Copehagen showed is a gathering of “What’s in it for me” birds. The Agenda may have had its’ inner circle of concensus, but that’s as far as concensus gets.
Follow the Money (20:29:49) :
To quote the Marx Bros.,
“Why a duck?”>
Vague reference to an olds Buggs Bunny cartoon in which Daffy Duck runs over the edge of a cliff, hangs in the air for a moment, gulps, and says in a tone full of shock and dismay “gravity works” just before he falls out of sight.
Gravity works. Thermodynamics works. AGW, not so much.
Congrats on hanging in there Henk. My wallet thanks you as do my creditors who feared my ability to pay.
I think that this is more like the start of the first “AGW Rehabilitaion of Country”
Henk Tennekes neither needed nor required “Rehabilitaion”.
It was the propaganda around him was, and still is, sick with the Anthropogenic Global Warming Virus.
AGW Virus Alert
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i64103
I’ll be happy where they burry the whole body of work.
That sort of article is usually called a “profile”, often proceeded by the phrase “puff piece”. I don’t see the vindication here.
“Does a falling body feel its own weight?” No– acceleration is equivalent to gravitational force (General Theory). Only when you hit the floor do you go splat.
Climate Cultists’ Green Gang of propagandists, Warmsters, are yet in free-fall, “all right so far”. But splat-time is accelerating towards an inevitable, final THUD.
I am about ready to walk out on my own profession! Got into a debate (not related to climate) that left me wanting to chew up and spit out nails. Can’t wait till my end of the year evaluation. It will be something worth framing!
Pam Gray, BS, MS, MA
Midget First Class
Redheaded Mattress Thrasher
Fired
Carrot soup ??
Rob M (20:14:44) : “And it undergoes crazy physiological changes…
Seems out of context here, Rob, but I would like see what it refers to. Can you explain?
“I am much more anxious about the cooling of the earth. The ultimate fate of this planet is a new ice age.” – Henk Tennekes
The amazing thing is Dr. Tennekes’ conclusion was the consensus 30 years ago. In fact, the 100K-year climate cycle of the Plio-Pleistocene was recognized and dated in deep-sea sediment cores by 1970, 40 years ago!
http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/award/milutin_milankovic/medalist/283.html
No new findings have altered that conclusion, although the scientific consensus has somehow dissipated. Now the great fear is that the planet might get warmer and the on-coming next glaciation somehow averted.
What kind of paranoia is that? Fear of warming? It’s like the fear of winning the lottery, or the fear that someone will discover the cure for cancer.
That’s what I just don’t get about global warming alarmism. It’s not something to be alarmed about. Joy and relief are the more rational emotional responses, if emotions can ever be considered rational.