Leipzig Declaration

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The Leipzig Declaration (Engl. Leipzig Declaration ) is a 1995 by Fred Singer published statement, claimed the singer along with a number of other signatories that there is no scientific consensus on the by greenhouse gases caused global warming would be. It emerged from a conference called "The Greenhouse Controversy" held in Leipzig at the end of 1995 , jointly organized by the Science and Environmental Policy Project led by Singer , which campaigns strongly against environmental protection, and the European Academy of Environmental founded by Helmut Metzner Affairs was funded. The signatories include prominent climate deniers Robert Balling , Hugh Ellsaesser, David Legates, Richard Lindzen , Patrick Michaels and Frederick Seitz . According to the initiators, a total of 80 scientists and 25 meteorologists signed. In 1997 and 2005 the declaration was redistributed.

The explanation is often cited by climate deniers as an argument that there is no scientific consensus on global warming. In science , however, the declaration is viewed as a disinformation campaign by climate deniers, the aim of which is to confuse the public with regard to the state of research on human-made climate change and the technical consensus that prevails there. In fact, by then there was already a consensus that global warming was man-made.

The declaration is a good example of the strategy often used by climate deniers to use false experts in order to create the appearance of scientific expertise that is actually not only barely available. For this purpose, supposed experts are cited in the public debate, often political functionaries or lobbyists , who have no expertise in the relevant scientific disciplines, in order to then contradict the scientific findings. Subsequent investigations for the Leipzig Declaration resulted in the same pattern: of the 105 listed signatories, 12 stated when asked that they had never signed the declaration, many others worked in areas that had absolutely nothing to do with climate research. There were almost no climate researchers among the signatories. With Robert Balling and Patrick Michaels there were also two signatories who had financial connections to the German coal industry and the government of the state of Kuwait .

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  1. ^ G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook : Climate Change Science. A modern synthesis. Volume 1 - The Physical Climate . Dordrecht 2013, p. 450
  2. ^ Peter J. Jacques et al .: The organization of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental skepticism . In: Environmental Politics . tape 17 , no. 3 , 2008, p. 349-385 , doi : 10.1080 / 09644010802055576 .
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  4. ^ A b John Cook et al .: Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence . In: PLOS ONE . tape 12 , no. 5 , 2017, doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0175799 .
  5. ↑ See also James Lawrence Powell: The Inquisition of Climate Science . New York 2012, p. 11f.
  6. ↑ Cook et al .: Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature . In: Environmental Research Letters . tape 8 , 2013, doi : 10.1088 / 1748-9326 / 8/2/024024 .
  7. ↑ See also James Lawrence Powell: The Inquisition of Climate Science . New York 2012, p. 178.
  8. ↑ Stefan Rahmstorf : Is it all just climate hysteria? In: Universitas . tape 9 , 2007.