Leaked Memo On Climatology Exposes Growing Worry Within German Meteorological Society…
”Unacceptable Unethical Developments” Clearly grave concern is emerging over a large swath of the broader German meteorological-climatological community in the wake of the Lennart Bengtsson witchhunt.
A reader/professor has sent me an internal memo he recently obtained from a meteorologist and member of the Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft [German Meteorological Society], abbreviated as DMG. Clearly grave concern is emerging over a large swath of the broader German meteorological-climatological community in the wake of the Lennart Bengtsson witchhunt.
The memo was authored by a group of dissenting DMG-member meteorologists and intended to be published in the DMG reports, but never saw the light of day.
It reveals a growing and widespread worry over the suppression of scientific views among German Meteorological Society members. One of the authors of the memorandum wrote an e-mail to the reader who provided the copy to me. He writes:
A circle of mostly older colleagues of the Free University of Berlin, who very much reject the tone one finds in today’s field of climatology, has asked me to draft a memorandum on the subject and to publish it in the Reports of the German Meteorological Society. Shortened by a half and totally watered down, the memorandum appeared in the last issue. I now take the liberty to bring the original version to your attention.
Greetings and cordial asscoication yours, ************”
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…certain developments are becoming cemented into their scientific fields (foremost climatology) which from a scientific point of view simply cannot be accepted and do not comply to their professional ethics.
I’ve deleted the name to protect the source. What follows is the original, un-watered down version of the memorandum – translated in English:
– See entire letter at: http://notrickszone.com/2014/05/16/leaked-memo-on-climatology-exposes-growing-worry-within-german-meteorological-society-unacceptable-unethical-developments/#sthash.lf0aNACX.dpuf
DirkH says: May 17, 2014 at 11:50 am “So watch the price fixing. At the moment, minimum wage introduction in Germany and minimum wage increase in USA.”
This is being tried in my state, for a $15 min wage. I am not shocked also that our former Republican candidate for President has come out in support of it. I do not know if our people are economically literate enough to see through this.
But regarding the food stamps here in the US, I do not have good news for you, Dirk:
DirkH says, [Kitty Werthmann]“Welfare became a huge apparatus with everyone accessing subsidized housing, food stamps, heating subsidies and many other benefits until everyone,”
Our food stamp program has been linked to the Farm Bill in the following way:
“Last summer, the House defeated a status quo food stamp and farm bill. That vote sparked optimism among conservatives as it opened the door to meaningful reforms if Congress was willing to separate the bills and start over.
After a long debate, the two policies were rejoined behind closed doors and brought to the House floor for a vote. Despite claims of reform, the unholy alliance of food stamps and farm policy created a bill that spends nearly $1 trillion — 80% of that money goes to the food stamp program.”
Now what are they after here, “single payer” food supply in the US, as in food stamp programs for all? Does this look like a “huge welfare apparatus with everyone accessing food stamps” to you?
JP Miller says: May 17, 2014 at 12:20 pm
If you mean “liberals” (rather than “libertarians” — there is a world of difference!), then you are completely correct. But, modern American liberals have nothing to do philosophically with classic, 19th Century Liberals. Modern American liberals, though any would be horrified if confronted with this reality, as more akin to Fascists.
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I thought I chose my words well. A libertarian, referring in this case to an upholder of liberty. Liberty being:
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The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.
In other words, freedom from the ‘oppressive restrictions’ of heresy trials, live burnings and the horrors of the Inquisition.
The French Reformation movement was libertarian, under the watchwords of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
And the American Reformation was equally libertarian, as they chose the image of the Roman Libertas as their primary symbol, in New York harbour. Here is a coin of the emblem they chose – Libertas, complete with the darting Sun-rays of Isis.
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/elagabalus/RIC_0107.7.jpg
Note that the Roman Libertas holds the pileus, the cap of liberty. In modern France, the French Mariamme (i.e.: the French Libertas), also wears the pileus cap of liberty:
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x424/nethryk/Volume%207/GandonFrance556GrandeMarianneDeGandon-3-12-45YT773.jpg
Note that Libertas predates Catholic Church, and although she was subsumed for more than 1,000 years, she fought back and defeated the Catholic Church in the 17th century. These are the time-scales that some organizations work on…..
P.S. Emperor Elagabalus, on the coin above, was perhaps the ultimate libertarian, in some respects. He not only castrated himself to become a Galli priest, he is said to have tried to turn himself into a woman. Steven Fry would have been a fan and a cheerleader of Elagabalus, I’m sure, so he should moderate his tone a bit, when he says that Rome was authoritarian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry
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Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
If you ever wanted evidence of “noble cause corruption” in the climate science “community,” this memo from dissenting German meteorologists should suffice.
ATheoK says:
May 17, 2014 at 9:23 am
“By the way; after reading your plans for Billy C., just how do you plan to harvest your trout? When is steelhead season?”
We used to shovel steelhead and salmon out of irrigation ditches that ran year round. Now they have fish screens on all of them, reducing the preferred spawning areas to just the two rivers in the valley area, and only let water run during short periods in the summer. Idiots.
As for trout, in high snow runoff water I find a deep undercut next to the bank, get as close as a can to it, and drop in a worm on a hook. I don’t bother with a sinker or flash. I usually haul in a big one first of the season. If I fish the middle channels I usually don’t catch much because of swift current. Many people tell me every year that you can’t catch trout in high water. I say Nuts.
Reblogged this on This Got My Attention and commented:
Wow!
Pitchforks and torches is what they need to worry about.
@ralfellis –
No, “liberal” in the US today means exactly the opposite of what it meant 50 years ago. %0 years ago, liberals supported lower taxes, personal freedom, free markets and strong national defense. Today, the people called “liberals” support confiscatory taxation, micromanagement of people’s daily lives, socialist central planning and surrender to enemies. For this reason, I never use the word “liberal” to refer to today’s left wing, which is, as you say, fascistic.
@ralfellis –
You could say that today’s Tea Party is closer to classical liberalism than any other political category. I was a Kennedy Democrat in 1963, and today I am a Tea Party Republican without having changed a single one of my political principles in the least.
Or in the case of the Logical Song, the Liberal is the Conservative, in Australia. ~
The only studio version I could find (:
Reblogged this on The GOLDEN RULE and commented:
What have we been told about a meaningful consensus?
Please read this if you believe that consensus science is acceptable.
lease read this if you believe that the “science is settled”.
An extract fro m the original source:
“Meteorology-climatology is playing a decisive role this political action. The – alleged – CO2 consensus here is serving as a lever within the group that consists of known colleagues who deal with climate, but also consists of a large number of climate bureaucrats coming from every imaginable social field. Together both groups consensually have introduced a binding dogma into this science (which is something that is totally alien to the notion of science).”
This is not the first time such a thing has happened in the history of science. Here although this dogma came about through democratic paths (through consensus vote?), in the end it is almost dictatorial. Doubting the dogma is de facto forbidden and is punished? In climatology the doubt is about datasets or results taken over from hardly verifiable model simulations from other parties. Until recently this kind of science was considered conquered – thanks to our much celebrated liberty/democratic foundation!
– See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2014/05/16/leaked-memo-on-climatology-exposes-growing-worry-within-german-meteorological-society-unacceptable-unethical-developments/#sthash.lf0aNACX.PD0VTbcm.dpuf
Good grief! A woman after my fishing heart. You’ve identified the best areas for high fast water and the hottest days of summer.
Even though I’m partial to a fly rod a lot of the time, I still try to put a nymph (or worm when fly rods are inconvenient) where it will be pushed under the overhangs. And I watch the line intensely, if it stops, or moves faster or twitches sideways, I set the hook.
For tough runs you can always make a cookie. Take some workable mud, smash flat and roll it up around the hooked worm. Toss the lump where the current will take it under the edges. As the mud cracks and falls off the worm it appears looking natural.
Trout season here is essentially open all year, though where I live is a little far from trout environments. Smallmouth bass, catfish, stripers, crappie do for us piedmont dwellers.