Mark this as the date that Germany’s global warming movement took a massive body blow.
Today, not one, but two of Germany’s most widely read news media published comprehensive skeptical climate science articles in their print and online editions, coinciding with the release of a major climate skeptical book, Die kalte Sonne (The Cold Sun).
Questioning the claims of the Warmists and resisting their so-called solutions isn't denial of the science--it is insisting on science. The author of the book thinks CO2 does contribute to warming the planet but thinks the sun (imagine that) has a bigger role in the natural cycle of climate.
That's fair enough. CO2 clearly should have a theoretical effect although I don't believe the models can be trusted to replicate actual climate and I sure don't think the Warmist solutions are good for us even if CO2 is the prime culprit.
UPDATE: A Der Spiegel interview with the author (translated to English). It's nice to see that an interviewer can ask skeptical probing questions on the subject of climate change--when the person interviewed questions the science. Baby steps, people. Baby steps.
This comment from the interviewer is priceless:
But you are doing exactly what you criticize climatologists of doing: Using a thin body of data, you make exact predictions.
For the record, I'm willing to reject exact predictions using a thin body of data regardless of which direction the prediction points.
