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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So what was his position at KNMI? The post and Solomon’s headline calls him the Director of KNMI, but the article describes him as Director of Policy Development, and talks about how his boss forced him out.
Rob M
“A flying machine that consumes itself for fuel:I am awe-struck.”
Have a look at the story of E-7 on this web site:
http://www.miranda-shorebird.org.nz/
There is now also a beautiful and expert book by a serious scientist. And importantly these birds have shown no sign of changing their ways that are dictated by the comings and goings of the annual global climate.
I am off to visit some of them this Sunday.
It would be good to have a summary of what’s left of the science behind global warming. You know, now that homeless people in DC are being given copies of AR4 to burn and keep themselves warm under 30+ inches of snow…
Shades of John H. Sununu, an MIT engineering graduate who publically doubted AGW . White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush (1989-1991), he was well-versed in modeling and knew that climate models were travesties.
The mainstream media hounded him out of office.
The big difference is that he has yet to be repatriated.
“De Boer’s successor should be someone who knows the UN process and the sensitivities of the nations involved, said Bernarditas Muller, a delegate from the Philippines who negotiated at UN climate meetings since the first one in 1995. She declined to speculate on who may take the post. …This time, perhaps we will have someone from a developing country,” Muller said today in a telephone interview.”
“Robert Stavins, director of Harvard University’s Environmental Economics program, wrote on Dec. 20 that conducting negotiations among a smaller group of big emitters “could be an increasingly attractive route.”
The outgoing climate chief [Yvo] said that there’s ‘no case whatsoever’ for narrowing down the talks.”
Do you get the impression by reading these attitudes that these people are cluless? They live in a tiny little world of their own making.
@roger Carr (21:11:22) :
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?”
That, and the “Why a duck” comment, are references to material in the translation of the Dutch newspaper article.
I want to see the raw data.
Where is the pointer to the original Dutch article?
Ik wil het lezen, a.u.b.
“But these green bureaucrats do not understand the meaning of the proverb. It is the road to HELL that is paved with good intentions, not the road to HEAVEN.”
Perhaps this is why people in the IPCC cabal can live with themselves. They feel that even if they have to bend the data and spread alarmism, it’s worth sacrificing science it to get the action necessary to change the world?
I think Climatology and cargo-cult science are now synonymous!
Good for a laugh
Gavin impersonating little boy with finger in the cracking dam
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/02/whatevergate/comment-page-2/#comments
Netherlands media inconvenient reporting on climategate gets a few mentions
Well, leftists’ mindset is characterized by aversion to any uncertainty or risk because of fear that someone might be luckier than them. They don’t fear that we all will die some day – what they fear is that you or me might live longer than them. The crusade against me smoking is not because they fear I might get cancer – what they fear is that I might derive some pleasure from it and get away without any cancer at all.
Yes, at least some of them probably fear the cure for cancer, too. What, all those people who made ‘unhealthy choices’ and derived pleasure from doing so are not going to pay for that? That’s not equitable!
[These paragraphs contain ~13% sarcasm].
“carrot eater (20:05:45) :
“He was right after all”
What exactly was he right about?”
About everything, carrot, about everything that he talks about…
He disproved all the bold claims about climate change did he? All of them? Impressive.
Predicador (00:48:54) : [These paragraphs contain ~13% sarcasm].
And 87% reality, I believe, Predicador. I was thinking much the same, myself — with variations.
diberville (00:16:55) :
Try http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/6024018/__HET_GELIJK_VAN_HENK_TENNEKES__.html
David Jones (20:22:29) : 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.
Yup, and with a new crop of pseudonyms too. Don’t know if it’s because the “old trolls” decided they needed to “freshen” themselves with a new persona (due to too much quotable baggage? Hard to flip/ flop with a record…) or they are too busy with testimony and a new crop was hired by their sponsors…
Personally, I think it’s a new crop of student interns being hired for this quarter / semester somewhere. If you were a Sorros or similar funding such an operation, funding ‘interns’ would be an expected way to do it.
At any rate, I’m not very impressed. And this crop doesn’t even have the faux feminist being “offended” by trivial things. Oh, and the talking points seem to be getting a re-write. (So many of them now mooted by the FOIA docs and emails…) so some of the scripted responses are a bit stilted.
But hey, you work with what you’ve got…
Pamela Gray (21:10:00) : … Fired.
suggested reading. “Who Stole My Cheese”. A practical view of life. Reading time less than an hour.
Co2 Cap and Trade. Why (beside Wall Street) would business be for it?
The Cap
The government would issue X amount of permits. What happens if Charley wants to open up a business to compete with an existing permit holder? Sorry Charley, all the permits are allocated, your SOL. The existing permit holders just imitated future competition.
The Trade.
Sam wants to expand his business. Sam would have to go to the market place to purchase more CO2 credits. They have become “The New Gold”commodity. Sam looks to “off shore” and finds no place to go. Therefore, Sam does not expand.
Real life example.
The Cap.
In my area, the city will only allow x amount of liquor permits for population density. In certain areas, liquor permits are worth hundreds of thousand of dollars.
The Trade.
It would be like all the liquor permit holders agree (with the blessing of governments) to pay the town 20 miles down the road to remain dry.
This is why certain businesses are for it (GE).
A true hero if ever there was one! Now we can see how it all works in every western country there is, move out the bad no men & women, & install the good yes men & women!
“Mark (01:43:53) :
He disproved all the bold claims about climate change did he? All of them? Impressive.”
That’s not what i said. You’re not making sense.
“E.M.Smith (02:14:06) :
[…]
Personally, I think it’s a new crop of student interns being hired for this quarter / semester somewhere.”
Maybe the last batch already got converted through to much information exposure and is no more use for AGW…
“old construction worker (02:19:19) :
[…]
This is why certain businesses are for it (GE).”
You’re right, it’s called “barrier to entry” and big businesses favor such regulation schemes through heavy lobbying to protect their market against startups and smaller competitors.
philincalifornia (21:10:26)
rbateman (20:39:44)
carrot eater (20:05:45)
A question to you ‘carrot eater’, which end eats the carrot ?
Max Bros, maybe there very best movie, ‘Duck Soup’ (1939 68 min. )
Pamela Gray (41:10:00)
The number one medicine for a little depression, 68 minutes of ‘Duck Soup’.
Dirk,
Dirk old chum, whatever gave you the idea I was talking to or about you? Have a read of the article. It’s not all about you.
Rob M (20:14:44) : “And it undergoes crazy physiological changes…
Got it. Thanks, DCC (23:56:30)
carrot eater (22:16:06) :
To what are you referring? The assertion that he was eventually fired in retaliation for his views, and some column he wrote?
“carrot eater (21:23:27) :
he can’t tell them what all to print.”
You.
Oh dear, that’s a horrible Dutch->English translation of an otherwise pretty decently written article.
Here’s the original (in Dutch, obviously)
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/6024018/__HET_GELIJK_VAN_HENK_TENNEKES__.html?p=7,1