What IS climate science?

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The most read Dutch article on my Academia account has a somewhat suggestive title. Here at the ODP site you find the English translation of it: Real Science and Climate Science. It did not explicitly address the question from the title of this article. Is climate science a real existing branch of (serious) scientific practice?… Continue reading What IS climate science?

And so it started …

Take note: 2 minutes further in the interview he repeats this statement!
Accompanying video of TEXT.

Update(d) March 2024. This video is about a promotional interview a ‘professional influencer’ called Leila Conners had with ‘climate-scientist’ Stephen Schneider. It contains this crucial time-line: 2006 L.Conner interviews SS  Source,TreeTV 2010 Stephen Schneider † Just one of those many, many post mortem eulogies 2014 IPPC canonises Schneider The report 2018 Dutch version of this… Continue reading And so it started …

Meanwhile above the Netherlands

View on Dutch polders in the former Zuiderzee, now IJsselmeer. Specifically the tiny polder IJsseloog.
Artificial island IJsseloog in Ketelmeer: part of the IJsselmeer. ‘Meer’=lake. Until 1932 the lake was sea (‘Zuiderzee’).

In this century (also in my lifetime) I returned by airplaine to the Netherlands 11 times. Never before have I had such a beautiful view during the landing. And not only has this photo turned out exceptionally well as a picture (thanks to the sunset and the clouds), there is also a lot of interesting… Continue reading Meanwhile above the Netherlands

The suffering of the climate prophet

Stephen Schneider

When considering running for a seat in the Provincial Council I started reading the complete IPCC report, however, I got stuck on page XI. The Synthesis Report 2014 turned out to be officially dedicated to Mr. Stephen Schneider, who -for that reason- can be called climate prophet. I use that term climate prophet for the… Continue reading The suffering of the climate prophet

Real science and climate science

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The possibilities and limitations of science have occupied me for a very long time. 44 years ago I wrote a paper for the course ‘science theory’, for which I received high grades. The main reason for this was undoubtedly that I had partly based it on the book Personal Knowledge by the genius, but not… Continue reading Real science and climate science