De enige reden dat ik vind dat Al Gore, Ramstdorf, Schellnhuber, Pier Vellinga, Michael Mann, James Hansen, Phil Jones, Rotmans, Maurits Groen, Maarten Hajer en ander intellectueel tuig de rest an hun leven mogen worden opgesloten (in een fysieke cel dan wel in het isolement van hun verspilde leven) is dat zij mede verantwoordelijk zijn voor het niet-oplossen van zeer gemakkelijk te tackelen zaken zoals dijken in Bangladesh, electriciteit en drinkwater in heel Afrika etc
Showing posts with label Hajo Smit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hajo Smit. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Quote van de dag
Hajo Smit laat weer maar eens blijken hoe gemeend zijn SMOM-subsidie-aanvraag tot het opzetten van een blog waar beide partijen in het debat kunnen dialogeren nu eigenlijk juist was:
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Quote van de dag
als ik een wetenschapper was moest ik me inlaten met alarmistische wetenschappers en publiceren in dezelfde journals en me mengen in het debat met deze andersdenkenden. Aangezien ik al bijna 20 jaar wetenschapper af ben, mag ik doen wat me goed dunkt. Als een sceptische wetenschapper mijn woorden hierboven zou debiteren dan zou ik dat verwerpelijk vinden. Als de uitgever van Playboy zegt dat hij een blad maakt voor mannen die van bloot houden dan is dat prima toch? Nochmaals wij bieden hier voor de wetenschappelijk geïnteresseerde economisch rechts geörienteerde in vrijheid gelovende democratische zich zorgen makend over milieu-alarmisme en graag leuke klimaat-anecdotes voor de borreltafel verzamelende en soms nieuwe feiten en scherpe commentaren wensende lezer een dagelijkse portie varieté. Prima toch?Hajo Smit legt even uit waar climategate.nl echt voor staat. En het heeft uiteraard niets met wetenschap te maken …
Monday, 15 November 2010
Merchants of doubts : interview with Naomi Oreskes
Science historian professor Naomi Oreskes just appeared in a radio-interview in Australia to talk about her book Merchants of Doubt. In the interview (and book) she explains how a few people, driven by ideology, started attacking scientific topics they feared would be an attack on freedom. The attack started in the circles around the George C. Marshall Institute and the first scientific topic that was attacked was not climate science but tobacco. With the financial aid of big industrial companies, the strategy used is manufacturing doubt, helped by the philosophical perversity proving something is right isn’t as easy as you might think.
As the strategy is still deployed until today, it is extremely important to both understand the strategy of doubt and to understand the importance of freedom-ideology and the somehow paranoid visions sometimes associated with it. Even though Oreskes talks about the American situation, you can easily compare what Oreskes talks about in the interview and the situation in the Low Countries and you’ll find out there’s a striking resemblance.
The role of ideology in understanding climate scepticism in Holland is pretty obvious. The sceptical website Klimatosoof even explicitly states in its FAQ-section : we suppose members of the Groene Rekenkamer are fighting for maximal personal and economical freedom (…) and belong to the libertarian fraction, a philosophy that wants to decrease the role of the government on every domain.
When you look at the other big climate sceptical webpage in Holland, climategate.nl, you’ll also recognize what Oreskes said. The first sentence in Rypke Zeilmaker’s latest post reads : Many "’scientists’ see global warming as an excellent tool for a socialist reform-agenda. Hajo Smit on the other hand is the perfect example of the role of paranoia in the debate. Hajo Smit often accuses people, without any provocation or apparent reason, that they want to censor or lock up unwanted individuals just like the Nazis and Communists did.
At present, the Dutch doubtmaster is Hans Labohm, an economist. He doesn’t understand climate science and sticks to quoting dubious claims he finds on the internet, even when he knows what he says is wrong or misleading. Once you recognize what he’s doing you’ll see that when he gets challenged about the mistakes in his posts or in the work of people he cites, he shows no interest whatsoever in the content of what he writes or the fact of what he says is correct or not. Instead he’ll give a reply like “…but the important things is to remember the science is not settled !”. He’s not interested in science but in manufacturing doubt. Which is no coincidence: one of the three scientists Oreskes talks about is S. Fred Singer, and it is this very same Singer who has close contacts with Labohm and they frequently show up together all over Europe.
I know what is written in this post is something I've said many times before on this blog, but understanding the role of non-scientific doubt and the important role of bias linked with a person’s ideology is vital in understanding the climate debate. So I will keep on hammering getting that message through.
The WtD-blog has a good post today on how the industry is involved in feeding the "uncertainty-meme" and manipulating the audience : Wolves in sheep's clothing : how big tobacco wanted to mimic the global warming sceptics and establish a "fake" NGO
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Sunday, 18 April 2010
IPCC-Hearings in Dutch Parliament
Tomorrow Monday the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament will keeps it's hearing around all the supposed IPCC-gates and the reliability of the IPCC itself and its reports.
The day is split into the following parts :
1) 10u30 - 11u30 : Working methods and set-up of the IPCC : technical briefing
2) Procedures, errors and content of the AR4:
Even thought he hearings haven't even started the good people of climategate.nl are nagging already John Christy and Richard Tol will not be heared through video-conferencing.
It's not unlikely there will be internet streamings through this link the site of the Second Chamber : http://www.tweedekamer.nl/
=> go to "Commisiezalen" and choose the "Groen van Prinstererzaal" and search for the "Live Debat"
Below is the full agenda (in Dutch) and the hours of the different sessions :
I'm expecting lots of complaining tomorrow evening.
The day is split into the following parts :
1) 10u30 - 11u30 : Working methods and set-up of the IPCC : technical briefing
2) Procedures, errors and content of the AR4:
- 11u30 - 12u30 : Skeptics
- 13u30 - 14u30 : Journalists. I don't have a clue why the parliament invites journalists. Three of the are climate skeptics anyway, rather than journalists.
- 14u30 -15u30 : Contributing authors and lead authors
- 15u45 - 16u45 : Expert reviewers, reviewing editors en overige deskundigen
Even thought he hearings haven't even started the good people of climategate.nl are nagging already John Christy and Richard Tol will not be heared through video-conferencing.
It's not unlikely there will be internet streamings through this link the site of the Second Chamber : http://www.tweedekamer.nl/
=> go to "Commisiezalen" and choose the "Groen van Prinstererzaal" and search for the "Live Debat"
Below is the full agenda (in Dutch) and the hours of the different sessions :
| 1. | Programma hoorzitting klimaatonderzoek IPCC
1. Werkwijze en opzet van het IPCC
10.00 – 11.30 uur Technische briefing
11.30 – 12.30 uur Sceptici/Wetenschappers
13.30 – 14.30 uur Journalisten
15.45 – 16.45 uur Expert reviewers, reviewing editors en overige deskundigen
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