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Schellnhuber Rejected! Why The German Government Is Moving To Overhaul Its Climate Advisory Board

By P Gosselin on 3. Mai 2013 

Yesterday I wrote here and here on how the junior partner (the FDP) of Angela Merkel’s coalition 
government has moved to block the re-appointment of Prof. Hans-Joachim 
Schellnhuber as the Chairman of the WBGU advisory council for another 4-year term.
The WBGU directly advises Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government on matters concerning environment and climate. It has ten members – all of them leading professors from various fields.
The FDP party, coalition partner of Merkel’s government, is growing 
increasingly dissatisfied with the direction and views of the 
influential WBGU advisory council, and apparently has decided that a 
major overhaul is long overdue. As Spiegel wrote yesterday, read here, the WBGU has become only a circle of Schellnhuber’s friends where 
debate on climate issues is unwelcome. The members of the WBGU are 
alarmists and are demanding that the government take drastic steps to 
curb CO2 – advice that the business friendly FDP classic liberal party 
finds inappropriate and increasingly off the wall. The FDP controls the 
Ministry of Economics, and it is that very Ministry that refuses to 
approve the re-appointment of the current board. The FDP party is 
seeking an overhaul, demanding fresh faces and ideas.
The approaching demise of the Schellnhuber and the current WBGU may 
have been in the works for a long time. The advisory council seemed to 
meander off from reality, and advocated naive plans that made no 
economic or scientific sense.
Over the years, Schellnhuber and his WBGU began showing a clear pattern of activism, dogmatism and a lost sense of reality. 

In 2008 Professor Schellnhuber, who is also director of the 
climate-catastrophe-obsessed Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact 
Research, said in a video with somber tones that the Earth would explode if the world population reached 9 billion, read here. In 2009 he claimed that unless the world heeded his message, “the Earth’s population would be devastated“, adding that “the carrying capacity of the planet is below 1 billion people.” 

In Schellhnhuber’s and the WBGU’s mind, the climate science was 
settled and CO2 was going to warm the planet some 6°C by 2100 unless 
their plan for drastic reductions was implemented. To curb CO2 
emissions, Schellnhuber and the WBGU introduced in April 2011 its 
“Masterplan” for “The Great Transformation” of global society, read here, which called for a more authoritarian global government, watered-down 
democracy, and the marginalization of climate science dissidents and 
skeptics. Prof. Hans von Storch called this sort of arrangement where 
citizens and society have no say and are expected to just sit there and 
listen to clever scientists explain how the situation is, and what 
policy has to be implemented, as “almost a Medieval political 
understanding”, read here. He even went on to say that some of the PIK scientists seemed to have “taken on the role of prophets“.
Schellnhuber even once repeated in a video the preposterous claim that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.  
http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/03/schellnhuber-rejected-why-the-german-government-is-moving-to-overhaul-its-climate-advisory-board/