Volker Radke

Tom Harris, National Post, via achgut.de:

>>Albert Einstein once said, „Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.“
While the gods must consider An Inconvenient Truth the ultimate comedy, real climate scientists are crying over Al Gore’s new film. This is not just because the ex-vice-president commits numerous basic science mistakes. They are also concerned that many in the media and public will fail to realize that this film amounts to little more than science fiction…<<

Tim Lambert:

>>…If you are going to claim that Gore makes numerous basic science mistakes, it’s not a good idea to make numerous basic science mistakes in just one paragraph. Harris writes:

„Similarly, the fact that water vapour constitutes 95% of greenhouse gases by volume is conveniently ignored by Gore. While humanity’s three billion tonnes (gigatonnes, or GT) per year net contribution to the atmosphere’s CO2 load appears large on a human scale, it is actually less than half of 1% of the atmosphere’s total CO2 content (750-830 GT). The CO2 emissions of our civilization are also dwarfed by the 210 GT/year emissions of the gas from Earth’s oceans and land. Perhaps even more significant is the fact that the uncertainty in the measurement of atmospheric CO2 content is 80 GT — making three GT seem hardly worth mentioning.“

Let’s count how many basic scientific mistakes and omissions Harris makes.

1. The CO2 percentage of greenhouse gases by volume is irrelevant. What is important is the contribution of CO2 to the greenhouse effect.
2. Humanity is increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere by 3.8 billion tonnes per year. That is not the same as increasing the CO2 content by 3.8 billion tonnes, since it just counts the carbon in each C02 molecule.
3. Atmospheric carbon as of the mid 90s was 775 GT. There is no uncertainty of 80 GT, since the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere can be measured quite accurately.
4. The natural emissions of CO2 are more than balanced by natural absorption of CO2, so nature is, on net, absorbing CO2. Human emissions are significantly more than 3.8 GT. Fortunately natural sinks are absorbing some of the CO2 we produce so the net increase is only 3.8 GT. It is wrong to compare total natural emissions with the net change from human emissions.
5. Nowhere does Harris mention that human emissions of CO2 have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 30%

Harris tries make it look as if the dispute is between „liberal arts graduate“ Al Gore and „leading experts“ in climate science. But as we have seen before, the genuine experts in climate science say that Gore basically, got it right.

Harris’ „leading experts“ are the sixty scientists who deny global warming is happening and include such non-experts as Vincent Gray. Twelve of the fourteen scientists that Harris cites are amongst those sixty scientists…<<

>>Die Haltung Dietrich Bonhoeffers wandelte sich im Laufe der Jahre, aber selbst bei ihm blieb eine tiefe Ambivalenz hinsichtlich der Juden im allgemeinen bestehen. „Die staatlichen Maßnahmen gegen das Judentum stehen für die Kirche in einem ganz besonderen Zusammenhang“, erklärte er im Hinblick auf den Aprilboykott. „Niemals ist in der Kirche Christi der Gedanke verloren gegangen, daß das ‘auserwählte Volk’, das den Erlöser der Welt ans Kreuz schlug, in lange Leidensgeschichte den Fluch seines Tuns tragen muß.“ So ist es gerade eine theologische Auffassung von den Juden, die einige von Bonhoeffers Verlautbarungen geprägt zu haben scheint. Selbst sein Freund und Biograph Eberhard Bethge konnte sich der Schlußfolgerung nicht entziehen, daß in Bonhoeffers Schriften „ein theologischer Antijudaismus vorhanden ist“. „Theologischer Anti-Judaismus“ war in der Bekennenden Kirche nicht ungewöhnlich, und einige ihrer angesehensten Persönlichkeiten wie etwa Walter Künneth zögerten nicht, nazistische und jüdische Interpretationen der „jüdischen Auserwähltheit“ als auf Rasse, Blut Volk beruhend miteinander gleichzustellen und der christlichen Auffassung von der Erwählung durch Gottes Gnade entgegenzusetzen. Derartige Vergleiche sollten Mitte der dreißiger Jahre und danach in christlichen Polemiken gegen die Nationalsozialisten erneut auftauchen.<< (Saul Friedländer, Die Jahre der Verfolgung, S. 58)

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