Climate scientist who defected and joined a “climate denier” group forced to resign

  A leading climate scientist, Lennart Bengtsson, who recently rethought his position and joined the climate denier (I prefer the term “realist’) organization, GWPF, has resigned his new position after facing immense pressure from those who want to shut down all opposing viewpoints.

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His views on the weakness of the “consensus” haven’t changed. But as he admits in his resignation letter, he has been so badly bullied by his alarmist former colleagues that he is worried his health and career will suffer.

Bengtsson’s recruitment by the GWPF (the London-based think tank set up by former Chancellor Lord Lawson) represented a huge coup for the climate realist cause. The Swedish climatologist, meteorologist, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and winner, in 2006, of the 51st IMO Prize of the World Meteorological Organization for his pioneering work in numerical weather prediction – was by some margin the most distinguished scientist to change sides.

  This was an embarrassment to the global warming alarmists so they had to do something about it and apparently they have succeeded. Here is what he said in his resignation letter:

I have been put under such an enormous group pressure in recent days from all over the world that has become virtually unbearable to me. If this is going to continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to worry about my health and safety. I see therefore no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF. I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active life. Colleagues are withdrawing their support, other colleagues are withdrawing from joint authorship etc. I see no limit and end to what will happen.

It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy. I would never have expecting anything similar in such an original peaceful community as meteorology. Apparently it has been transformed in recent years. Under these situation I will be unable to contribute positively to the work of GWPF and consequently therefore I believe it is the best for me to reverse my decision to join its Board at the earliest possible time.

  He feared for his health and for his safety simply because he took an opposing position. Suddenly he is a global warming atheist who has no right to voice an opinion because the alarmists do not agree with his opinion. He once was a leading voice on global warming and was respected worldwide but suddenly he is worthless and his opinion means nothing.

  This is not surprising to me for this is what the left does when they can not debate an issue.  They harass and intimidate until they get what they want and what they want is all opposition to be humiliated into silence.

  The global warming alarmists intend to win this argument not by debate but rather by silencing the opposition because they know he who controls the message controls the masses and what better way to control the message than by making sure the people only hear one side of the issue?