Foreword:
By Dieter E. Koop,
Oceanographer.
To minimise the danger of
anthropogenic global warming (AGW) by carbon dioxide emissions, international
institutions require an investment of about 10 times the material cost of the
entire World War II within the next few decades. The book deals with the
“climate change” issue as well but from a completely different perspective,
namely the threat of climatic change by human activities in the marine
environment since sailing the seas with screw driven vessels during the last
150 years. The book proves that four months of activities at sea in autumn 1939
had been sufficient to generate the coldest winter in Europe since the Little
Ice Age and that six years of global naval war were enough to contribute to the
only global cooling period since the world got warmer since about 1850, which
lasted from 1940 to the 1970th.
As oceanographer with a professional focus on
North Sea and Baltic research, I felt competent enough to do the proof reading
for this book. It was pure amazement to me. The ruthless Nazi regime dragged
Europe into WWII, and a few months later Europe faced the coldest winter since
about 1820. 70 years have passed and science has no idea of what had caused the
extreme winter 1939/40. Even worse, there is no sign of interest in the matter
although two further extreme winters, and a global cooling period of three
decades followed. Even during peace time the huge shipping and fishing industry
has the potential to influence the seasons and to contribute to global warming,
which climatology has, to my knowledge, never investigated. Meteorology and
oceanography should be dismayed that they failed to understand the climatic
changes during two world wars, and for not having coordinated their research
better to avoid such horrible gaps in understanding the climatic change issue
from an oceanographic perspective. This fascinating book is a huge contribution
to improve the knowledge of the influence of human activity on climate.
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The Second World War stands for the criminal madness of German Nazi
government. Less known is their responsibility for the only climatic shift from
warm to cold in an otherwise constantly warming world over the last 150 years.
Not knowing the reason for the biggest climatic shift since industrialization,
which started in winter 1939/40, rectifies to speak about failures of
meteorology. Only four months into Second World War Northern Europe experienced
the coldest winter in 100 years. The reason: plain physics! Naval war in
Northern European seas released the summer heat too quickly. Polar air got free
access to Europe. The same applies to the second and third war winter. Europe
was back in the Little Ice Age. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, 1941
naval war became a global affair. In close conformity with naval war in
European seas, and subsequently in the Pacific, a pronounced global cooling
took place, which lasted until about the mid 1970s.
Furthermore, a thorough research of strong warming in the Northern Hemisphere
from winter 1918/19 to winter 1939/40 would have revealed a convincing link to
naval war in Europe from 1914 to 1918. But climatology does not care! The
connection between two naval wars and two climatic changes within 25 years has
not yet been investigated and explained. If they had warned governments about
the threat of climate change, as their successors currently do with the
"greenhouse effect", naval activities in two World Wars may have been
prevented, or at least been limited.
Claims to understand climate should be regarded as a failure as long as
meteorology is unable to explain the two most pronounced climatic shifts during
the last century and the role two world wars had in this game. These two events
would show that the oceans have a dominate role in the climate system, and man
is able to change its direction by intensive activities in the marine
environment. It took four months to generate the extreme regional winter
1939/40; and subsequently a few years to contribute to global cooling lasting
for three.
The book should alter the debate on
climate change!
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Oceans Matter: Reflecting on writings
by Dr. Arnd Bernaerts
Posted on 07
April 2015
by Ron Clutz
In response to my water world post, I was shown the wonderful phrase coined
by Dr. Bernaerts:
“Climate is the continuation
of oceans by other means”.
In was in 1992 he wrote in Nature appealing to the Rio conference to use
the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS) to better manage human
impacts on the oceans, and thereby address climate concerns. Needless to say,
that call fell on deaf ears.
He later elaborates: “Presumably science would serve the general public
better when they would listen to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) who said: “Water
is the driver of nature”. Some say that nature rules climate, but water
rules the nature on this earth, and the water on earth is so synonymous with
the oceans and seas that it can be said: Climate is the continuation of the
oceans by other means.”
Dr. Bernaerts is certainly a man worthy of respect and admiration – an expert
in maritime law, a passionate marine conservationist, and an historian of naval
warfare. All of these are subjects where I have little background knowledge and
much to learn.
I see him as a spokesman for ocean scientists, whose views have been little
considered in the IPCC rush to judgment upon CO2. Dr. Bernaerts says quite a
lot about this at his website: http://www.whatisclimate.com/
It takes some time to understand how his material is organized, with several
websites to explore, but there’s lots of data, naval history, graphs and charts
to peruse and expand one’s understanding.
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