Klima und politik

Abstract

Modern politicians use gloomy model-prognosis of climate for their profile-building and offer to save the world if the constituency follows their well-meaning policies. Politics work by consensus. Science is the critical method of continuous search for errors in what we believe to be established knowledge. Numerical models of the climate-system do not represent the true thing; they are a modern form of hypothesis about the working of this open, natural system and not susceptible to proof. Doubts about the hypothetical radiative forcing of CO2 make the anthropogenic causation of global, catastrophical warming harder and harder to believe. Stringent policies based on large reductions of CO2-emissions are in danger of putting vast funds to ineffective use. "Protection of climate" by reduction of CO2-emissions might be wishful thinking. Other benefits from more efficient, slower, cleaner use of fossil energies are beyond doubt. © 2000 Fuchs - Informationsaufbereitung und -Verbreitung.