![]() Instead of getting replies to our questions, we kept on hearing that replies did not matter. Then but there has been no reply, even though we have repeated our inquiries on these and the growing number of other related questions. We were told that the reply would be given within several days. Nine months ago, at an international climate change conference in Moscow, ten questions concerning the essence of the Kyoto Protocol and its underlying theory were submitted to the IPCC. ![]() These people persistently refused to take part in any discussion. But we have not received any reply for a year. Over almost a year we have repeatedly asked our foreign partners who advocate the Kyoto Protocol and who insist that Russia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and we have invited them to meet and discuss these issues, present arguments and counter-arguments and discuss them jointly. Yuri Antonovich and I have mentioned the fact that this is the first seminar of its kind that we have managed to arrange and it was accidental. At the end of this conference, Andrei Illarionov, at the time economic advisor of president Putin, presented his impressions. In 2004, they decided to organise a climate conference in Moscow, independently of the UN IPCC climate panel, and with the co-operation of a number of climate sceptics. The Russians had a few questions on which they never received an answer. It pertains to the Russian position in relation to the Kyoto Protocol. I select one salient detail, to which van der Lingen returns a few times, because there are still misunderstandings about it. He is all the time surprised how it is possible that intelligent people can be taken in by the AGW hypothesis and, as a consequent, have lost all sense of reality. As far as I know this is the first time that this happens in an English-language book. He draws attention to this in various parts in his book. Noor van Andel, Timothy Ball, David Bellamy, Bob Carter, Ian Castles, Michael Crighton, John Daly, Freeman Dyson, Bas van Geel, Al Gore, James Hansen, David Henderson, Warwick Hughes, Sir John Houghton, Craig en Keith Idso, Yuri Izrael, Kees de Jager, Phil Jones, Sir David King, Kirill Kondratyev, Salomon Kroonenberg, Richard Lindzen, Bjørn Lomborg, Michael Mann, Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Pat Michaels, Lord Christopher Monckton, Nils–Axel Mörner, Roger Pielke Jr., Ian Plimer, Stefan Rahmstorf, Arthur Rörsch, Fred Singer, Hans von Storch, Rajendra Pachauri, Harry Priem, Paul Reiter, Sir Nicolas Stern, Dick Thoenes, Bob Tisdale, Kevin Trenberth, Pier Vellinga, Anthony Watts and many others.Īs a Dutchman, Gerrit van der Lingen is also well informed of the climate discussion in the Netherlands. In doing this he draws attention to the role played by important participants, protagonists as well as antagonists, such as (alphabetically) Habibullo Addussamatov, Joe d’Aleo, Will Alexander. These give a clear overview of the climate debate, with all its high and low points. The first chapter contains an overview of his email bulletins “Global warming and cooling”, which he wrote over several years. After his education at the University of Utrecht, he took part in several scientific expeditions to inhospitable areas. ![]() ![]() In his introduction Gerrit van der Lingen describes his adventurous lifecycle as a geologist. It seems to be a debate between ideology and pure science. He became involved in the climate debate, in which the protagonists of the AGW, who believe in the dominant role of mankind in the warming of the atmosphere, and the antagonists, who base their opinions on factual data and observations, are diametrically opposed to each other. While studying climate change in the past he realised that the present belief in man-made catastrophic global warming (AGW = Anthropogenic Global Warming), caused by CO 2 emissions, is not supported by the science. For van der Lingen this is only one heartbeat in the geological history, which forms the only correct context for judging the present climate developments. Most of the public information about the climate comes from scientists who studied the weather and weather processes and who consider temperature data of 150 years already a long period. Gerrit van der Lingen has recently published a fascinating book, “The Fable of a Stable Climate, the writings and debates of a climate realist”, which contains a collection of his essays, lectures, discussions and letters to the media about climate and associated subjects. My loyal readers know him as co-author of my blog: the geologist, paleoclimatologist and climate sceptic Gerrit van der Lingen, an antipode of Dutch origin who has been living in New Zealand for many years. Translation from the Dutch book review “Het Sprookje van een stabiel klimaat” by Hans Labohm. ![]()
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