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In The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues and documents that the global environment has actually improved. He supports his argument with over 2900 footnotes, allowing discerning readers to check his sources.

Scathing reviews published by Scientific American January 2002 (pdf 12 MB) is the main evidence taken by "The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty" (DCSD) in a decision handed down 7 January 2003.

The outrageous decision has infuriated many scientists - whether or not in favour of the position of Bjorn Lomborg - and a protest is getting organized.

A complaint against DCSD has been made to the Danish ombudsman requesting DSCD to undo or redo their decision.

Danish Scientists: The Climate depends on the Sun. http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/sun_climate/homepage.html

That explanation makes sense to laymen. At least it gives the alarm, that the Kyoto Treaty may be targeting the wrong culprit. Anyway - the Kyoto effect is at best delaying fossil fuel burning - and at a high cost. We will definitely burn all available fossil fuel whether it takes a 1000 years or 1100 years. So - why not take the Lomborg attitude and do something more sensible than agreed in Kyoto. Long before running out of fossil fuel the price of extracting it will exceed the price we are willing to pay. Increasing price make us turn to renewable sources getting cheaper and cheaper day by day. Supply and demand will show the fear of doomsday prophecy to be groundless.
Lack of common sense is the driving force behind the critics.

Sunspots influense the Climate.

One of the most striking comparisons was published by E. Friis-Christensen og K. Lassen, Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), in "Length of the solar cycle: An indicator of solar activity closely associated with climate," Science 254, 698-700. (Figure left).

1995 Knud Lassen og Eigil Friis-Christensen (JASTP, vol. 57, p.835, 1995) extended the period by using temperature-proxy-data from mid 1500 to 1900. They found higher temperature during short sunspot cycles and colder during long cycles.

Eigil Friis-Christensen (back),
Henrik Svensmark (mid)
Knud Lassen (front)

Their theory says energetic particles from space known as cosmic rays assist in cloud formation. The more clouds, the cooler the earth becomes. Solar winds, according to Friis-Christensen and Lassen, block cosmic rays leading to less cloud cover and a warmer planet.

Solar activity has changed during the past centuries, the cycles are now shorter and more violent than they were a hundred years ago, and when the Sun is more active, we know that it is brighter. The number of sunspots has been observed by astronomers since the 16th century and the behavior of solar activity resembles the temperature records on Earth. The period from approximately 1680 to 1750 is known as the Maunder Minimum, a period when the sunspots disappeared form the Sun's surface. This same period coincided almost exactly with the very cold period in Earth know as the Little Ice Age.

Fremtidsforskeren Martin Ågerup: http://www.enerne.dk/ http://www.enerne.dk/nr__26_lomborg_og_landsdommeren.htm

The Dansgaard-Oeschger Discovery

Because oxygen-18 is heavier than oxygen-16, water vapor from the ocean tends to have a slightly higher ratio of ¹⁶O to ¹⁸O than that of the remaining ocean water. As water vapors traverses the Earth to the poles, the snow precipitated from this water vapor is becomes increasingly richer in ¹⁶O relative to ¹⁸O, as ¹⁸O precipitates first. If glaciers expand, the oxygen isotope ratio of ocean water becomes increasingly rich in ¹⁸O, as ¹⁶O is locked away in glacial ice. In addition, the process is dependent on temperature, so snow that falls in the winter is enriched is ¹⁶O. Thus, ice cores can provide a dating chronology, as well as a measure of climate cooling.

Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events are characterized by rapid increases in ¹⁸O relative to ¹⁶O in ice cores of the last glacial period. These high values persist for several hundred to several thousand years. These increases were discovered in 1972.

Greenhouse effect is probably not a main agent, or even a cause, of global warming. Increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is not preceding temperature increases but in fact delayed. Increases may be caused by release from deep ocean bound gas pools during temperature triggered changes of both vertical and horizontal currents. The atmosphere-ocean system may be the instrument causing carbon dioxide to respond on climatic changes and not opposite.

Klimatopmødet i København begyndende 7. december 2009 bringer i hu H. C. Andersens Eventyr: Kejserens nye klæder. Det er som vor hovedstad iscenesætter det gamle eventyr i moderne rammer. Jeg tror Folketingets forman Thor Pedersen har haft samme i tankerne, da han påtager sig den lille drengs rolle og påtaler, at klimadebatten er løbet af sporet:

... I den store Stad, hvor han boede, gik det meget fornøieligt til, hver Dag kom der mange Fremmede, een Dag kom der to Bedragere; de gave sig ud for at være Vævere og sagde, at de forstode at væve det deiligste Tøi, man kunde tænke sig. Ikke alene Farverne og Mønstret var noget usædvanligt smukt, men de Klæder, som blev syeede af Tøiet, havde den forunderlige Egenskab at de blev usynlige for ethvert Menneske, som ikke duede i sit Embede, eller ogsaa var utilladelig dum.

.... Saa gik Keiseren i Processionen under den deilige Thronhimmel og alle Mennesker paa Gaden og i Vinduerne sagde: "Gud hvor Keiserens nye Klæder ere mageløse! hvilket deiligt Slæb han har paa Kjolen! hvor den sidder velsignet!" Ingen vilde lade sig mærke med, at han intet saae, for saa havde han jo ikke duet i sit Embede, eller været meget dum. Ingen af Keiserens Klæder havde gjort saadan Lykke. "Men han har jo ikke noget paa," sagde et lille Barn. "Herre Gud, hør den Uskyldiges Røst," sagde Faderen; og den Ene hvidskede til den Anden, hvad Barnet sagde. "Men han har jo ikke noget paa," raabte tilsidst hele Folket. Det krøb i Keiseren, thi han syntes, de havde Ret, men han tænkte som saa: "nu maa jeg holde Processionen ud". Og Kammerherrerne gik og bar paa Slæbet, som der slet ikke var.

Da vor nye klimaminister Lykke Friis kommenterede Thor Pedersens udsagn, sagde hun som kejseren "Nu må vi holde klimatopmødet ud - det er ikke tiden til at flytte hegnspæl".

Clippings.

UVVU modtager 287 protester mod Lomborg-dom JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 18. januar 2003

Kritik af Lomborgs kritikere JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 17. januar 2003

Brev: UVVUs anvisninger af nedskrevne normer for samfundsvidenskabelig forskning JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 16. januar 2003

Professor: Udvalg går galt i byen JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 16. januar 2003

Professor: Fri os for smagsdommere JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 16. januar 2003

Udvalg under lup JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 15. januar 2003

Retssikkerheden i fare: Nedlæg UVVU JyllandsPosten 15. januar 2003.

Professor til kamp mod usaglighed JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 14. januar 2003

Øget pres på UVVU JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 13. januar 2003

Regler for vurdering af forskere granskes JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 13. januar 2003

Politikere vil se facitliste. JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 12. januar 2003 22:30

Strid om videnskabelig praksis. Politiken, Offentliggjort 11. jan 2003

Professorer mod Lomborg-dom. JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 10. januar 2003

Professor: Lomborg har en god sag. JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 10. januar 2003

Videnskab er ikke sandhed. JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 10. januar 2003

Varm luft i en kold tid. JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 9. januar 2003

Hak i tuden til troværdigheden for Udvalgene Vedrørende Videnskabelig Uredelighed. Udvalgene kræves ændret eller nedlagt, efter at deres videnskabelige dom over Lomborg er forkastet. JyllandsPosten, Offentliggjort 17. december 2003

Forsker: Solen skyld i global opvarmning JyllandsPosten Offentliggjort 26. november 2003

Eco-warriors of the science labs can't see the truth The Daily Telegraph, January 5, 2004.

Lomborg og landsdommeren Liberator, 8 januar 2003