In the today’s hard copy edition of the Nordesee Zeitung, a north German daily, in a letter to the editor v
eteran and retired German meteorologist Klaus-Eckard Puls writes a 3-point response to recent alarmist claims made by IPCC climate scientist Prof. Mojib Latif.
Image: partial shot of letter appearing in the 22 March 2016 edition of the Nordsee Zeitung.
Prof. Latif recently claimed in Bremerhaven that the future of the planet was at stake, and unless drastic action is taken quickly, “the basis for existence for many people will be destroyed by climate change”
Pause has not ended
In his letter to the daily Nordsee Zeitung, Puls reminds readers that the IPCC confirms the 15-year pause in global temperature in its most recent report and that “the warm 2015 El Nino year changes nothing“. Puls notes that even IPCC climate scientist Latif was correct in characterizing the El Niño phenomenon as a “weather event” and that “it has nothing to do with climate“.
Climate refugees claims false
In the second point, concerning climate refugees, Puls reminds: “Previous UN prognoses of 50 million environmental refugees by 2010 proved to be false. In countries that are in the so-called danger zone the number of inhabitants is actually growing.”
No detectable anthropogenic sea level rise signal
In his third point of rebuttal, Puls tells readers that sea level rise has steadily slowed down since the end of the last ice age, and that there has been “no detectable anthropogenic rise signal“.
Interestingly the newspaper left out Puls’s title as a degreed meteorologist. Titles are rarely left out in such situations in Germany.
Klaus-Eckard Puls is also the staff of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE).
If the El Nino is a separate phenomena, cyclic in nature, seen prior to CAGW alarmism, not induced by any perceived CAGW, then who on earth WOULD consider it an end to the CAGW flattish trend?