Klaus

Let’s resume this exchange a few centuries from now –when Denmark may again be covered by several km of ice.

Meanwhile — try to stay warm, my friend

Fred Singer
Heartland Institute

PS Are you the owner of Illum’s Bawdyhouse (as I call it ) on Stroeget? Just joking.
Lighten up and don’t worry so much about mankind

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From Klaus Illum:
Subject: The need for indecency and insult. Re: Britain’s Lost Atlantis, Mesolithic Climate Change

Not coming from the wild west, I did’t know what a bawdyhouse is. But now I do. My wife told me.
Thus I note that S. Fred Singer needs to be not only arrogant but also indecent and insulting to fend off the questions I posed.

This reflects the character of the Heartland Institute and the companies which contribute to the financing of its activities.

Klaus Illum

Fred,
your arrogance is misplaced, however convincing.
Klaus

Let’s resume this exchange a few centuries from now –when Denmark may again be covered by several km of ice.

Meanwhile — try to stay warm, my friend
Fred

Fred,
if the question concerned a particular issue of minor importance, I would’t interfere in this discussion within a field in which I have no professional qualifications.
However, this is not an issue of minor importance to mankind.
Therefore, as a citizen with some experience in reading and apprehending scientific assessments I have an obligation to take a stand in the climate discussion.

To take the position that the anthropogenic GHG emissions are of minor importance relative to natural phenomena is not merely taking an academic standpoint. It means to take on ones shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for consequences which we will hardly live to experience ourselves.

In actual practice a central question is whether or not to allow the substitution of coal for declining supplies of oil and gas.

Regarding the CO2 concentration experiment, you say: “Nature has made the experiment for us.” referring to a graph in your paper.
Please see the note attached as my comment to that statement of yours.
I do not accept the notion of the long history of the atmosphere and the concurrent development of life on Earth as an ‘experiment’ made by nature which is comparable to the experiment of increasing the CO2 concentration by 50-100% in a climate system which has been relatively stable for the last 10,000 years or so.

Best regards

Klaus