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The inconsistency in the response of the Klimatosoof’s Theo Richel to the Open Letter of 55 Dutch Scientists

Theo Richel and Christopher Monckton

On the Klimatosoof-website DGR’s Theo Richel complains that the “55 Dutch scientists open letter” published on SENSE contains a lot of “non-climate scientists” like biologists. He writes a whole paragraph to say he thinks biologists aren’t able to understand the complex physical processes of climate science. He also wonders about the fact there are economists, politicologists, mathematicians on the list. He concludes :

On the grounds of their education only a minority of all signers is able to judge whether IPCC’s claims on anthropogenic climate change are true.

According to a comment of Bart Verheggen (link in Dutch) most of the names he recognizes actually do work in a domain related with climate research
But given Richel’s argumentation it might be fun to have a little closer look at the people who wrote (or were interviewed) on the Klimatosoof website the past half a year or so :

• Bas Van Geel is a biologist
• Theo Richel himself is a man who apparently has no education after high school
• Hans Labohm is an economist
• Benny Peiser is an anthropologist
• Lord Monckton is a man with no scientific training whatsoever
• Arthur Rörsch was a professor teaching genetics

And of course in the entire advisory board of the Klimatosoof there’s no-one who ever worked in a field even remotely close to climate science.
I think Theo Richel just disqualified his entire website :)