Nils-Axel Mörner

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Nils-Axel Mörner (* 1938 ) is a Swedish oceanographer . He was Dean of the Faculty of Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics at Stockholm University .

Life

From 1981 to 1989 he was President of the Neotectonics Commission of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), and from 1999 to 2003 he was President of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Change and Coastal Development. From 1997 to 2003 he headed the project on geomagnetism and climate of the International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS).

In 2005 he retired.

Nils-Axel Mörner is extremely critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He claims u. a., contrary to the state of science, that there is currently no rise in sea level , the rise in sea level is the "biggest lie ever spread". Mörner believes that there will be a cooling in the near future due to decreasing solar activity and the associated sea level will fall. He is a member of the advisory board of several climate denial groups , including the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) and the European Institute for Climate & Energy (EIKE).

Until July 2003 he was President of the Commission on Sea Level Change and Coastal Development of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). INQUA dissolved the commission in the course of restructuring and in 2004 distanced itself from Mörner's position on climate change.

Mörner was co-editor of the journal Pattern Recognition in Physics from Copernicus Publications from 2013–2014 . After two editions, the publisher criticized plagiarism in articles in the magazine, a nepotistic selection of reviewers and the publication of a non-specialist, climate-skeptical study and discontinued the magazine.

In 2017 he was a guest speaker at a climate conference organized by the two climate denial organizations, the European Institute for Climate & Energy (EIKE) and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), in Düsseldorf.

In 2018 it became known that Mörner published several supposedly peer-reviewed papers in so-called predatory journals, which often only pretend to be peer-reviewed. The work was funded by the CO 2 coalition , a climate denial organization associated with the Trump administration. In 2017, together with OMICS International , an Indian robbery journal publisher that is being sued for fraudulent business practices, he organized an alleged climate conference, which was mainly occupied by climate deniers.

Mörner is convinced that humans have an instinct to find water, metals and the like. a. Has. (see divining rod ).

literature

  • Nils-Axel Mörner: Eustasy and geoid changes . In: Journal of Geology , 84, 1976, pp. 123-151.
  • Nils-Axel Mörner (Ed.): Earth Rheology, Isostasy and Eustasy. 1980.
  • Nils-Axel Mörner (Ed.): Climatic Changes on a Yearly to Millenial Basis. 1984.
  • Nils-Axel Mörner: The concept of eustasy: A redefinition . In: Journal of Coastal Research , SI-1, 1986, pp. 49-51.
  • Nils-Axel Mörner: Paleoseismicity of Sweden - a novel paradigm. 2003.
  • Nils-Axel Mörner: Sea Level Changes: Observations versus Models. XVI. INQUA Congress, Paper No. 93-1. 2003.
  • Nils-Axel Mörner: The Greatest Lie Ever Told. 2007, ISBN 978-91-977047-0-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orrin H. Pilkey, Rob Young: The Rising Sea . Island Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-61091-004-0 , Chapter 3: A Sea of ​​Denial.
  2. ^ John J. Clague: Letter from INQUA to the Russian Academy of Sciences. (PDF) International Union for Quaternary Research, July 21, 2004, archived from the original on July 14, 2007 ; accessed on January 19, 2014 : "Further, INQUA, which is an umbrella organization for hundreds of researchers knowledgeable about past climate, does not subscribe to Mörner's position on climate change."
  3. ↑ Erik Stokstad: Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal. In: Science News. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), January 17, 2014, accessed January 19, 2014 .
  4. ^ Martin Rasmussen: Termination of the journal Pattern Recognition in Physics. Copernicus Publications, January 2014, accessed on January 19, 2014 : “Therefore, we at Copernicus Publications wish to distance ourselves from the apparent misuse of the originally agreed aims & scope of the journal as well as the malpractice regarding the review process, and decided on 17 January 2014 to cease the publication of PRP. "
  5. ↑ CFACT co-sponsors climate and energy conference with EIKE . CFACT website . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  6. ^ Murky world of 'science' journals a new frontier for climate deniers . In: The Guardian , January 24, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  7. ^ Climate Denial Group With Trump Admin Ties Is Funding Sea Level Research in Questionable Journals . In: Desmogblog , January 18, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ Nils-Axel Mörner. In: desmogblog.com. DeSmogBlog.com, accessed June 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mörner, Nils-Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish oceanographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1938