From the “send the men in the white coats” department. It seems that this already alarmist climate scientist has gone off the rails and sees climate change as an ELE (extinction level event).
In an online article titled Climate Change Like An Asteroid Strike appearing in Germany’s national daily Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), journalist Alex Rühle reports on the outgoing director of Germany’s alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Prof. Hans-Joachim “John” Schellnhuber.
Prof. Schellnhuber, widely known in Germany as the Climate Pope, is considered in Europe as the leading climate science authority and the architect of the Master Plan for transforming global society – dubbed The Great Transformation – which aims to make global society climate compatible through draconian, surrealistic measures. Moreover the plan calls for all of it to happen in just a matter of a couple of decades!
A number of critics have called the whole idea detached from economic reality and dystopian.
Risks mounting “by the hour”
Schellnhuber is also the father of the “2°C climate target”, a warming that the world must never exceed, he claims, lest it’ll tip hopelessly into a state of rapid, irreversible climatic collapse.
The SZ article reports how the outgoing Schellnhuber believes the planet is in fact approaching the climatic catastrophe at “a crazy speed” and that the risks “are mounting quasi by the hour”.
The alarmist Potsdam Institute professor has been known for a number of shrill comments made in the past, but in this most recent SZ article, Schellnhuber’s shrillness arguably reaches a whole new level that shoots beyond the realms of reason.
Rapid, epic disaster of geologic dimensions
Now that Schellnhuber is stepping down as director of the Potsdam Institute after 25 years as its director, he reflects back, telling the SZ how he feels about the overall “disinterest with regards to the consequences of climate change” that has swept across the public globally.
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It was a near miss of advocacy driven policy over reach instead.
Climate Change is like a drunken Indian … you never really know what is coming
Leave the Indians out of it. Like a drunken anybody.
Carlos Castenada “Tales of Power”
Some Indians are smarter than you think 🙂
Unless the Indian is Patchurcuchie!
I can see why there is no interest in ” Climate Change “. How many predictions can you get wrong and claim that ” by the hour” it’s getting worse?
The real disservice people like this are doing in the field of science, is that some day there will be a wolf and nobody will listen.
But the reality is that, based upon the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific rational to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. The AGW conjecture is based upon the existence of a radiant greenhouse caused by trace gases in the Earth’s atmosphere with LWIR absorption bands. Such a radiant greenhouse effect has not been observed in a real greenhouse, in the Earth’s climate system, or anywhere else in the solar system. The radiant greenhouse effect is science fiction so hence the AGW conjecture is science fiction as well. Climate change has been going on for eons yet it is currently so slow that it takes networks of very sophisticated instruments decades to detect it. We must not mix true climate change with weather cycles. If the future is anything like that past, the current interglacial period will eventually end and it will be followed by another ice age. This is all the work of Mother Nature and mankind does not have the power to change it.
Kognitive Dissonanz!
How is it possible to hold in your head the concept of an Asteroid strike powerful enough to wipe out most of the species on earth, but that was not ultimately an irreversible climatic collapse with the absurd assertion that a mere 2°C would tip us hopelessly into a state of rapid, irreversible climatic collapse?
Despite all of the catastrophic events that this planet has experienced, no matter how much the perturbation, it always returns to our habitable home. The best analogy I’ve ever heard is that it is like a marble in the bottom of a large bowl. You can push the marble away from the center of the bowl, but it will roll right back. Push it gently, push it vigorously, it just rolls back. Schellnhuber would have us think that it is like a ball bearing balanced on the head of a pin, with the slightest perturbation leading to a runaway calamity. If that were so, and the planet is 4.5 billion years old, how could it not have failed irreversibly eons ago?
You would think that recognizing just how homeostatic this planet is in reality, nobody could believe this Scheiße.
Hang onto that marble. This Schellenhuber fellow appears to have lost all his.
Precisely the same argument my Phd paleogeologist used for dismissing AGW.
Source out of an interview in ZEIT online, a german newspaper 26/03/09 – quote via google translate – page 4 of 7
Intro on page 1 :
So you have an idea about Schellnhuber, enjoy !
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Not to forget to mention the interviews intro:
Page 1 of 7 – intro
If there’s attention to be found for saying scary bad things, these guys go for it, don’t they? They are SOOO gonzo bonkers about it, too!
Well, okay, I’m still running my furnace, for Pete’s sake, and it’s the middle of May, and everything confounded thing is later than my last paycheck, BUT — to the south of me, right about the county line, it is following the average for the area, so I know that it’s just W-E-A-T-H-E-R. Maybe I can turn the furnace off by July???
It appears that he has to have that last bit of the spotlight as it fades and he gets pushed off stage center. So why not try to scare people to pieces, eh? They don’t listen anyway. At least, we all know that he’s consistent about what he says.
This was an old 80’s movie – Heaven Help Us – and I think of this speech almost every time one of these eco-nuts open their mouths.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=heaven+help+us+speach+at+dance#id=2&vid=48f2393e6d0fe80f95a201b78a3011b6&action=click
One can only hope that following his retirement he lives long enough to see his life’s work held up as joke and his ‘science ‘ to be given the same status as numerology.
Professor Schellnhuber did not hesitate to publish a novel equation for a sea level rise, assuming an unlimited supply of water.
Of what exactly do these existential threats consist?
Granting for the sake of argument that rising CO2 has any negative effects at all, which it doesn’t in the real world until at least above 1200 ppm, and probablu not until 10,000 ppm, what bad things does Herr Professor imagine could happen at two degrees balmier than AD 1850, ie the end of the life-threatening LIA?
Sea level rise? No problem. More rain? No problem. Less rain? More of a problem, but warmer is wetter in most places. More storms? Not happening. Worse storms? Not happening. Less ice? Good thing.
Felix
Sea level rise only affects those that are stupid, or greedy enough to risk their futures by building properties on river banks, estuaries or coastlines.
But they did, and they reaped the benefit. Perhaps now is the time to pay the piper.
And so convinced is the UK government that sea level rise is a problem, that they are embarking on a staggeringly expensive refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament. Guess where that’s situated Yep, you guessed it, right on the banks of the river Thames.
Too bad the present Houses were built during the LIA.
London would benefit from a return to Eemian heat. Who wouldn’t want hippos bathing in the Thames at the Bridge?
Anyone who has experienced these animals in the wild. IIRC they are the no 1 animal killer of humans in southern Africa, well beyond snakes or crocodiles or big cats
Leo,
Sorry, but nonsense!
The leading animal killers of humans in Africa are other humans and mosquitoes.
Hippos are only a problem if you mess with the males. Londoners could afford to leave them alone.
https://www.tripsavvy.com/africas-most-dangerous-animals-1454125
Puff adders also kill more people than do hippos.
Besides which, it’s easy to avoid hippos.
Maybe he buys into Jim “Venus Express” Hansen’s boiling oceans.
He should try to solve the problem by jetting to some more conferences.
I hear there’s one in the Ebola zone, right now!
….”it is even worse than it appears” …
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Hate it, when that happens.
Pity the poor asteroid scientists. What do they get to compare an asteroid strike with when they want to exaggerate wildly? Supernovae?
Marcott et al., and the extrapolated current temperature of planet Earth maybe?
https://chaamjamal.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/the-eve-of-destruction-of-the-planet-by-climate-change/
Great site!
Your take down of the TCS is very good.
And the song parody you link to is hilarious.
Thanks.
So many arm-waving experts in one echo-chamber! Dunning and Kruger must be proud.
So, you truly believe that “climate change” is an existential threat.
Please explain your reasons for holding this purely religious belief on blind faith.
Thanks!
Do I think the probability is non-zero? Of course, only a fool wouldn’t.
Ah, clever non-answer. Instead of giving any compelling evidence, you give us an implicit demand to prove a negative.
Do I think it’s a non-zero probability that there are unicorn-riding Sasquatch hiding in the rain forests of Sumatra? Well, no actually. But can I prove it with peer-reviewed research?
The question was what evidence can you give for why you think CAGW is more likely than not.
Nice try, care to give it another go?
Pointing iut that a corrupt alarmist hack is also pushing nonsense dressed up as science is hardly arm waving.
Planet Earth is warming because the learned Prof has his hand on it and is transferring his body heat to our poor globe.
I think I know what he is holding in his other hand, and it aint a piece of chalk.
As Marx, the world’s greatest social commentator and philosopher, said —
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Groucho Marx that is.
Tyrants rely on hyperbole and deception.
But this creep looks like he wants to take things to a new level…
https://youtu.be/YqyQfjDScjU
And the past reality
What a great load of science denying claptrap. Grow you bunch of blind idiots and go back to physics 101.
What a great heap of science denying claptrap. Never seen such unsubstantiated rubbish in all my career. You all need to go back and do science 101….
Another crazy German guy…….
After having founded the PIK, Schellnhuber was brought to the UK in 2002, to assume the post of Research Director at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich. He was also brought on to the Oxford University Physics Department and the Environmental Change Institute.
In early 2004, Queen Elizabeth II considered Professor Schellnhuber as the best man for a sensitive operation to pressure President George W. Bush into agreeing to the anthropogenic climate-change swindle. Schellnhuber traveled to Washington, D.C. along with Prime Minister Tony Blair’s top science advisor, Sir David King, who is now the British Crown’s Special Representative for Climate Change, appointed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Sept. 2013. The Bush White House reportedly complained to Blair about this mission.
Also in 2004, the Queen traveled to Berlin to open the German-British Climate Conference, on which occasion she dubbed Professor Schellnhuber a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
In 2005, Blair turned to Schellnhuber to organize a conference on “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change,” at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. The proceedings, edited by Schellnhuber, with an introduction by Tony Blair and IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri, were published by Cambridge University Press.
With Professor Schellnhuber as chairman of the advisory board, the European Climate Foundation (ECF), from 2007 on, generously funded German “climate activists” from the above-named sources, while at the same time, Schellnhuber was working with the EU Commission on guidelines for the reduction of CO2 emissions.
As Angela Merkel’s energy advisor (fired in 2014), Shellnhuber bears the main responsibility for inducing Merkel to make the climate-change question the top agenda item during Germany’s presidency of the EU in 2007–something which not only wrecked Germany as an industrial nation, but also seriously compromised Merkel’s personal integrity as a scientist.
In 2009, Schellnhuber, in close collaboration with Prince Charles, coordinated preparations for the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Preparations included another mission to Washington, this time to personally press the Obama administration on the urgency of the monarchy’s global “decarbonization” intent, Obama’s Science Advisor being fanatic depopulation champion John Holdren, a long-time associate and collaborator of Schellnhuber’s. The Copenhagen conference nonetheless failed, after representatives of developing and emerging countries–and the Vatican–realized that the intention behind the climate question was massive population reduction.
And in 2011, in his capacity as chairman of the WBGU, Shellnhuber presented a master plan for a “Social Contract for a Great Transformation,” a proposal for establishing a worldwide eco-fascist order.
The author who sold the encyclical Laudato Si’ to Pope Francis is working for the British Royal Family. The Vatican endorsed the population reduction zealot (1 billion people ist his limit).
Strange how none of this British OBE pedigree appeared anywhere in WUWT.