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Climate Scientist Hans Von Storch Warns: Climate Scientists Have Been “Taking On The Roles Of Medicine Men And Priests”

[English translation] ‘Unfortunately in climate science there is a tendency to proclaim absolute truths and to link these immediately to instructions on actions to take,’ von Storch said. ‘The climate pope tells us what has to be done, and for the people it’s: keep your mouths shut. Scientists have been taking over the roles of medicine men and priests. That’s not the job of scientists. Science is supposed to help understand problems, show the possibilities that exist in dealing with them. The best is to show many possibilities. Then the political process has to decide the path to take.’

But some of his colleagues in science like to use ‘stories that point to a catastrophe,’ said the professor of meteorology. One example was the assumption that our region would see ‘murderous violent storms’. But there was no data showing this. ‘It all has a cultural, anthropological background’ . ‘If you sin, then you will be punished. And the punishment always takes on an environmental dimension which also included storms in the past. In former times it was God’s punishment. Today it’s punishment by Nature. Nature is to keep man in check. And for this we see idiotic films like ‘The Day After Tomorrow.’’

Lamar Smith: Overheated rhetoric on climate change hurts the economy - The Washington Post

Instead of pursuing heavy-handed regulations that imperil U.S. jobs and send jobs (and their emissions) overseas, we should take a step back from the unfounded claims of impending catastrophe and think critically about the challenge before us.

Violent Arctic storm a climate-change 'harbinger,' study finds - The Globe and Mail

The Inuvialuit living in the Mackenzie Delta of the Northwest Territories watched incredulously in September of 1999, as a particularly violent storm swept the Arctic Ocean 20 kilometres inland, killing all vegetation in its path and leaving lakes infused with salt water.  [So why did CO2 choose to cause this particular event in 1999, but never in all the years surrounding 1999?]

Twitter / aDissentient: Memos on low climate sensitivity ...

Memos on low climate sensitivity and need to cut spending seem not to have reached William Hague http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4640093/foreign-secretary-s-special-representative-for-climate-change/ … #liblabcon

Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change jobs, London Based, Up to £120k | Guardian Jobs

Preventing dangerous climate change is one of the most important challenges of our time.