The degree of intolerance, of inability to face the inconsistencies of the "man-made" global warming / climate change proposition, is very high. They are shooting the messenger, not the message. Attacking the person, not the issue. And the big irony, this is happening among natural scientists in the west, supposedly the beacon of social tolerance and scientific skepticism. The two Press Releases are posted in The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) website.
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Press Release 01/05/14
Professor
Lennart Bengtsson Joins GWPF Academic Advisory Council
London,
1 May::The Global Warming Policy Foundation is pleased to announce that
Professor Lennart Bengtsson, one of Sweden’s leading climate scientists, has
joined the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council.
Professor
Lennart Bengtsson has a long and distinguished international career in
meteorology and climate research. He participated actively in the development
of ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting) where he was
Head of Research 1975-1981 and Director 1982-1990. In 1991-2000 he was Director
of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. Since 2000 he has been
professor at the University of Reading and from 2008 the Director of the
International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland.
Professor
Bengtsson has received many awards including the German Environmental Reward,
The Descartes Price by the EU and the IMI price from the World Meteorological
Organisation (WMO). He is member of many academies and societies and is
honorary member of the American Meteorological Society, the Royal
Meteorological Society and European Geophysical Union. His research work covers
some 225 publications in the field of meteorology and climatology. In recent
years he has been involved with climate and energy policy issues at the Swedish
Academy of Sciences.
The
GWPF Academic Advisory Council is composed of scientists, economists and other
experts who provide the GWPF with timely scientific, economic and policy
advice. It reviews and evaluates new GWPF reports and papers, explores future research
projects and makes recommendations on issues related to climate research and
policy.
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Press Release 14/05/14
Lennart
Bengtsson Resigns
GWPF
Voices Shock and Concern at the Extent of Intolerance within the Climate
Science Community
It
is with great regret, and profound shock, that we have received Professor
Lennart Bengtsson’s letter of resignation from his membership of the GWPF’s
Academic Advisory Council.
The
Foundation, while of course respecting Professor Bengtsson’s decision, notes
with deep concern the disgraceful intolerance within the climate science
community which has prompted his resignation.
Professor
Bengtsson’s letter of resignation from our Academic Advisory Council was sent
to its chairman, Professor David Henderson.
His letter and Professor Henderson’s response are attached below.
Benny Peiser
Director,
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Resigning
from the GWPF
Dear
Professor Henderson,
I
have been put under such an enormous group pressure in recent days from all
over the world that has become virtually unbearable to me. If this is going to
continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to
worry about my health and safety. I see therefore no other way out therefore
than resigning from GWPF. I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide
pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active
life. Colleagues are withdrawing their support, other colleagues are
withdrawing from joint authorship etc.
I
see no limit and end to what will happen. It is a situation that reminds me
about the time of McCarthy. I would never have expecting anything similar in
such an original peaceful community as meteorology. Apparently it has been
transformed in recent years.
Under
these situation I will be unable to contribute positively to the work of GWPF
and consequently therefore I believe it is the best for me to reverse my
decision to join its Board at the earliest possible time.
With
my best regards.
Lennart Bengtsson
Your
letter of resignation
Dear
Professor Bengtsson,
I
have just seen your letter to me, resigning from the position which you had
accepted just three weeks ago, as a member of the Global Warming Policy
Foundation’s Academic Advisory Council.
Your
letter came as a surprise and a shock. I greatly regret your decision, and I
know that my regret will be shared by all my colleagues on the Council.
Your
resignation is not only a sad event for us in the Foundation: it is also a matter of profound and much
wider concern. The reactions that you speak of, and which have forced you to
reconsider the decision to join us, reveal a degree of intolerance, and a
rejection of the principle of open scientific inquiry, which are truly
shocking. They are evidence of a situation which the Global Warming Policy
Foundation was created to remedy.
In
your recent published interview with Marcel Crok, you said that ‘if I cannot
stand my own opinions, life will become completely unbearable’. All of us on
the Council will feel deep sympathy with you in an ordeal which you should
never have had to endure.
With
great regret, and all good wishes for the future.
David Henderson
Chairman,
GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council
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See also::
Climate Tricks 27: More Risks and Danger Ahead, Send More Money to the UN, April 01, 2014
Climate Tricks 28: Earth Day Cartoons, April 23, 2014
Climate Tricks 28: Earth Day Cartoons, April 23, 2014
Climate Tricks 30: On the term "CC Denial/Denier", May 06, 2014
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