Climate researcher Björn Stevens, director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Meteorology in Hamburg, criticizes his Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) colleagues, calling them “alarmist”
Björn Stevens is the director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Meteorology in Hamburg and an expert on clouds. In the Zeit (behind paywall), Stevens expresses criticism of colleagues, primarily at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK. The Oldenburger Online Zeitung has taken up the interview and quotes indirectly from it.
Among other things, these had warned of the disappearance of all clouds due to global warming. ‘That’s nonsense,’ Stevens said. The scenario is wrong, he said. ‘It’s based on a paper from our institute taken out of context and on a second paper that has numerous flaws.’
The dramatic behavior of the climate in that simulation is based on a gross simplification of clouds that has nothing to do with reality, he said. You can’t get rid of clouds that easily, said Stevens, whose research group simulates clouds in climate models and on whose expertise in cloud issues the world climate report relies heavily. Why his colleagues claimed otherwise, he said, is a question for them to answer. ‘I can only admire the way colleagues there scour the literature for the most alarmist stories.'”
But the blasphemy goes even further.
‘But the tipping points that my colleague Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and others at PIK emphasize are based on their private, much weaker definition. They reinterpret tipping points to include less abrupt or even reversible climate changes. With this new definition, they find tipping points everywhere. Then it’s permanent alarm.'”
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” Then it’s permanent alarm. ”
If there is anything -anything- that could be considered alarming and substantiated (connected to use of carbon=based fuel), then alarmists would not have to glue themselves to things and governments wouldn’t need to dismantle the current society.
The Climate Cult has nothing, and reasonable people have begun to consider the activists as pests and the politicians as totalitarians.
I always wonder WHO caused “climate change” since the time the atmosphere formed on this “planet” some ~4.100.000.000 years ago?!
It reminds me of ” the boy who cried wolf”.
“Then it’s permanent alarm.” That is just what they want and that has always been their objective
If the alarmists believe their own alarmism, are they able to keep their sanity?
“these had warned of the disappearance of all clouds due to global warming.”
Hold on a minute. I thought the story was that global warming would lead to increased evaporation, and thus increase cloud cover. This cloud cover would prevent heat from radiating into space, and so make the world even hotter. And we would be doomed.
Or was that last week’s story?
I know we are doomed, anyway.
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