The Swiss Basler Zeitung (BZ) reported on April 13, 2018, that a new research institute opened at Lake Aegeri in Switzerland last year: the Institute for Hydrography, Geo-ecology and Climate Sciences (IFHGK), which will focus on the natural causes of climate change.
Contrary to the other government-funded institutes, the IFHGK focusses on the natural causes of climate change: the Institute for Geo-ecology and Climate Sciences wishes to show that CO2 is not necessarily the main driver behind global warming and thus goes against the alleged broad consensus among mainstream researchers, the Baseler Zeitung writes.
A real climate scientist
The new institute, founded at the start of 2017, is located in Oberägeri, Switzerland is directed by Hans-Joachim Dammschneider. who according to the BZ explained:
The institute consists of scientists who work on a volunteer basis and operates on a shoestring. Decisive in the founding of the institute was Dr. Hans-Joachim Dammschneider’s encounter with Dr. Sebastian Lüning, who together with Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt wrote the Spiegel bestseller “Die kalte Sonne“, which upset German mainstream climate science. Lüning also runs the Die kalte Sonne climate site, where he posts daily.
Looking at climate science with “calm, common sense and reason”
Dr. Lüning, a geologist, long ago concluded that the mainstream climate scientists have navigated themselves into a dead end. Dammschneider told the BZ that the institute will look at the issues with “calm, common sense and understanding.”
Dammschneider, who considers himself a climate realist, says that it is absurd that CO2 has been designated a pollutant and that the substance is mainly to blame for es climate change. Dr. Dammschneider is a leading German expert in the field of geography, climate research, oceanography, and geology.
The BZ reports that already Dammschneider has published some papers in their own publication series and that he specializes in the field of periodic temperatures changes of the oceans, which have a direct impact on the atmosphere. He told the BZ:
Today’s warmth “not unique”
The German-born researcher believes it is essential to record these changes and to see if the climate changes are normal, or if they only have existed since man started burning fossil fuels.
His research and the findings of Sebastian Lüning for the North African region show that during the period of the year 1000 to 1200 A.D. it was similarly as warm as it is today. The BZ writes:
The fear of dissent
On the future success of the institute, the BZ writes that Dammschneider is aware that it’s going to be a long and difficult road, saying that “young climate scientists, as a rule, cannot afford to question asserted truths if they do not want to endanger their careers.
Thus the new climate science skeptic institute will have to rely on support from independent scientists and retired professors who are free to speak without the fear of harsh consequences.
Funding needed
The BZ writes that the institute is working to gain public attention, but is in need of funding. However: “business sponsors look promising, and so it hopes to employ some workers,” the BZ reports.
Concerning the widespread alarmism over man-made climate change, Dammschneider told the BZ…
Read the entire story in German at the Basler Zeitung
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“free to speak without the fear of harsh consequences” .
That’s another subject right there. It’s been going on for too long. Also, it has been pointed out that there’s a silent majority of scientists who don’t accept the warming alarmism, but they have no incentive to say so. There’s nothing in it for them but grief.
Will the researchers at IFHGK get respect from the MSM? Ignored is more likely.
Those who call CO2 a pollutant are either stupid or totaly misinformed after all its produced by nature and is needed by plants to survive and then the animals that eat plants and the predators that prey on them
I hope that the IFGHK is wise enough to avoid becoming lukewarmists.
I cringe every time I hear “carbon footprint” it’s so ridiculous. CO2 is not the problem, in fact this article goes a long way showing human fossil fuel emissions cannot be the driver of observed rising CO2 concentrations.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/who-to-blame-for-rising-co2/