From Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning at their website Die Kalte Sonne, comes this bit of good news.
One of the most irrational warmists in the world, Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, of the Potsdam PIK is getting forced out by his activism.
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber will retire in autumn 2018 and hand over the leadership of the Potsdam PIK Klimainstitut. The successors are already selected . Schellnhuber had become more and more of a burden for the institute in recent years. Parts of the policyhad already called for his removal from the “Scientific Advisory Council on Global Environmental Change” (WBGU), in which he advocated a line that went in the direction of eco-labeling. In the end, it probably alone has saved him another word of the Chancellor’s power. In addition, a mysterious accumulation of Schellnhuber’s publicationsin the journal of the National Academy of Science was noticed. The secret was probably that as a member of the company he was allowed to select his article reviewer seber.
Some of the press finally said what many thought. Spiegel to Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber: “One gets the impression that you are now more activist than physicist” . This also fits his role as ghostwriter for the Pope , to whom he apparently put his words almost at will in the mouth. He largely ignored the uncertainties in the climate sciences. His goal: the unconditional destruction of the fossil fuel industry . As a chancellor counselor, he also launched this message in the highest regard. The story will tell Schellnhuber’s role in the climate debate and over-hasty energy transition in the coming years and decades. Now we need a Schellnhuber break for the first time. Let’s hope the new PIK leadership corrects the extreme direction of the institute and ends the flow of climate-alarmist press releases as quickly as possible. What we need now is a balanced and level-headed presentation of the results, without constant urge for proselytizing.
Winning.
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Google’s German is a bit rusty.
Bengt, You are correct. There will be no let up in Potsdam propaganda with Rockström and Edenhofer in charge and Rahmstorf and Leverman will still be producing their scare stories. Schellnhuber had become a figure of fun. He retires with a nice prize though, 50 million Japanese Yen, approaching half a milion dollars.
http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/list.html.
Menwhile Potsdam will step up their campaign:
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/pik-frontpage
“bringing together natural sciences and social sciences stronger than ever”
Ottmar Edenhofer has for some time been Deputy Director of Potsdam to Schellnhuber and was their Chief Economist. He is now described as a Co-Director. He is also Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), founded jointly by Stiftung Mercator and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/institute/team.html
Potsdam has also “invaded” Australia:
http://climatecollege.unimelb.edu.au/our-people: Meinshausen is a former WWF and Greenpeace activist and a product of ETH, Oxford ECI and PIK.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/04/german-greenshirts-parachute-parkville/
From the PIK press release re the leader shift:
“The well-established climate physics and energy economic computer simulations at PIK are to be increasingly supplemented in the coming years by the use of artificial intelligence to analyze complex dynamic processes as well as big data as can be found in satellite observations and ice drilling cores, but also in financial markets and social media such as Facebook.”
Artifical intelligence to analyze facebook!
I detect a certain lack of human intelligence.
There are many more important decisions in Germany. Environment Minister Hendriks resigns and Schulze becomes the new Minister of the Environment.
She is an avowed member of the Friends of Fossil Power Plants. In the “Spiegel”:
“Greenpeace pointed out Schulze’s membership of the mining union IG BCE, which advocates long-term use of German coal-fired power plants, and on its website advocates new coal-fired power plants to “continuously reduce emissions from fossil-fueled power plants.” Greenpeace called on the future minister to quickly prove her independence from the coal lobby in the new office. ”
But I think Greenpeace was wrong about that. She will not do anything like that. The SPD is fighting against the AFD for survival. If the unions also fall away as supporters, the SPD will be a dwarf party in the future.
Presumably Flaßbarth, Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Environment, will have to take the hat off, as did Schellnhuber, the gray eminence of climate rescue. At least I can not imagine anything else.
The influence of PIK on the Berlin government and on Merkel has declined steadily in recent years anyway. PIK is barely perceived in the political discussion in this country or rather, not taken seriously. There can come as a new boss who wants, the climate goals have died, thanks to the new party AFD and rethinking in the FDP and now in the SPD. Not to mention the CSU as sister party of the CDU. Merkel no longer has the political basis for senseless unilateral climate protection measures.
It must read “on her Website……”
Replaced by Johan Rockström. I think this is a step backwards into more climate hysteria. Rockström the antropocene man is an agronomist and is even more crazy than Schellnhuber. He is nearly the only “climate scientists” that is interviewed repeatedly in Swedish media when it comes to climate change. There he talks about Anthropocene, Earth boundaries, that it is even worse than we thought and other falsehoods.
Swedish people are the most brainwashed people when it comes to climate hysteria. Remember, Bert Bohlin who played tennis on a regular basis with Olof Palme, the then Swedish prime minister, was the foremost scientist who spread the CAGW idea into the UN and among rolling politicians of the world.
pat (March 9, 5:54 pm): Johan Rockström holds a degree in some discipline closely connected with agriculture. He has no knowledge whatsoever of the physics or chemistry of the atmosphere, so he is eminently fit to lead the Potsdam Institute.
Interesting article about Mr Schellnhuber here:
http://catholicism.org/professor-hans-joachim-schellnhuber-a-rap-sheet.html
After reading that it becomes unfathomable how the current Pope could wish to be guided by this fellow but maybe that tells us something about the current Pope. If he is determined to be different from all previous Popes, he’s sure found a way of doing it. I doubt that wise and intelligent Popes like John-Paul II and Benedict XVI would have sougfht this chap’s guidance.
Schellnhuber along with Merkel belong to this fine stock of leaders Germany bestow on the world once every 2 or 3 generations.
The German ruling class has proved in the past to be among the most toxic poison to humanity, and the current bunch is up to the task of the previous one.