“I have a background in biochemistry myself and that is why I can better judge what sense and nonsense in climate science is going on,” said Lidewij de Vos at the beginning of this year In the Lower House. We at Forum for Democracy do not follow the so -called consensus among scientists but assess scientific articles on their merits. It would be good if more people with a scientific background went into politics.
Just earlier, Henri Bontenbal (“I am a natural scientist”) had advised the fox, but simply to follow the scientific consensus, especially in the climate debate where the IPCC provides that on a silver platter. “Politicians cannot judge discussions between scientists.” But at Forum they can do that, the fox showed. She did not tell who all those hundreds of scientific articles read.
It had just as unhappy that the fox in her examples of scientists who had come to new insights in their piere-one had suggested that it was the Galilei who discovered that the earth was turning around the sun, and not Copernicus, but nobody had bothered about it. Bontenbal had also left it courteous.
At the beginning of this year, Lidewij de Vos has been a replacement for Thierry Baudet for a few months and since the beginning of September she has been the leader and chairman of the Lower House Group of FVD. Especially from its spring performance, Forum has put many videos on YouTube. De Vos stands out for the unprecedented superior, teaching tone in dealing with ministers such as Wiersma and Hermans. “Does the minister not know that no energy transition is needed at all? I can’t say it often enough: there is no climate problem at all, the climate always changed.”
And then draws them from leather With arguments that are so mature that only very old MPs remember who from 30 years ago. The minister knows that in the Middle Ages it was so hot that the Vikings grew grapes on Greenland and that it became so cold again a few centuries later Avercamp In order to also paint ice cream faces in the summer? The minister knows that the ‘hockey stick graph’ with which Michael Mann around 1998 Didn’t get good at all? The data has been messed up! And then she shows, believe it or not, the worn MC-MC criticism on the hockey stick. (Mann CS reconstructed In 1999 the temperature of the northern hemisphere for the last thousand years on the basis of research on annual rings, coral and ice cream cores. The researchers McINTYRE and MCKITRICK then delivered in 2003 well -founded criticism And that also led to adjustment, but did not affect the conclusions of Mann: the recent rise in temperature is unique in speed and size.) You get the feeling that the fox had mistakenly brought an old stencil with climate criticism from the party office.
Now, it can be a kind of rhetoric, as is probably the case with the fox ‘endlessly repeated statement that the Dutch climate efforts (or: the Dutch energy transition) will only reduce global warming by 0.00007 degrees. The number dates from 2017 when a KNMI meteorologist loosely calculated, which an extra Dutch greenhouse gas reduction would have for global effect at the time. The task has started to lead a strange own life, but the fox has not noticed that.
Exactly behind the comma
The fox does not accept rhetoric from others. If Minister Hermans says that 95 percent of the scientists are behind the conclusions of the IPCC, she wishes to see it, so to speak behind the comma. Because after all, it has been shown that there are much less! And that could also be done because probably not all Sinologists, Malacologists and Andragologists have been consulted.
A piece of evil faithfulness comes around when the fox brings up sea level rise. It is true: for the Dutch coast it has been wonderfully constant and on average only 1.86 mm per year since 1890, but it may have escaped her that the global average sea level rise has been much larger in recent decades and show an ominous gear. In 2023 it was 4.5 mm per year. It is not going just as fast everywhere.
Forum and therefore also Lidewij de Vos want to put the Groningen gas field back into use, while it is just being disabled. They want Groningen earthquake -resistant to make. Because it is unwise, says De Vos, to compensate for the shortage of its own natural gas with LNG (liquid natural gas) that is supplied per tanker from the US: that produces eight times as much co2 as Groningen gas. Eight times as much CO2 From the same natural gas? That is sorcery. It turns out that they are one misconduct quoted, the number refers to the greenhouse emission of extraction, cooling and transport.
Ah, a biochemist is not so good in the energetic reasons, you think kindly. But when you hear what she says about photosynthesis (putting plants with the help of sunlight water and co2 To in energy) and plant growth (more nitrogen means more growth, which is called in biology succession) Then you know: it’s all completely hopeless.
Reader, this has become a somewhat unusual AW episode. It was that haughty that got stuck in the throat and maybe we should have swallowed better. “You are a bit stronger if you also say something nice about Lidewij,” the outside world shouts from the kitchen. “She must have said something that cuts wood?” That is what she said about Chinese coal -fired power stations, that of it two are opened a week, that’s right. There are even more, according to Google’s AI.
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