Dutch global warming denier "was right after all"

National Post (Canada)
"De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest daily newspaper, has totally vindicated the country's most prominent global warming denier in a prominent article entitled "Henk Tennekes - He was right after all." Tennekes was the director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, when his skepticism of the climate science coming out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to his forced resignation."

H/T Climate Depot

Dutch Scientist Quits...

Henk Tennekes Resigns from Dutch Academy
"..“I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that, like AMS and NAS, screws up science that badly.”......For many years, Tennekes was director of research at KNMI. He also was a professor at the Pennsylvania State University and at the Free University in Amsterdam. In 1982 he became a member of the Academy. And now he steps out."
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Henk Tennekes Resigns from Dutch Academy (Roger Pielke Snr.)

How our belief in climate change is draining away as number of doubters rises by 10% in three months

Daily Mail
"A growing number of Britons are sceptical about global warming, a poll has revealed.It found around 26 per cent - a rise of 10 per cent in just three months - do not believe the world is getting hotter.And it showed that the proportion of those who think climate change is a reality has fallen from 83 per cent to 75 per cent since a similar survey was carried out in November. ...At the same time, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has come under fire after it admitted making mistakes in several of its published reports.

Yesterday the panel was forced to apologise after a major blunder was uncovered in its influential 2007 report on global warming.In a chapter discussing the threat of rising sea levels, the IPCC claimed more than half of the Netherlands was below sea level.In fact, just a quarter of the country is. Jacqueline Cramer, the Dutch environment minister, last night called for an investigation into the error, adding: 'I am very disturbed. I do not wish to accept any more mistakes.'

A United Nations report wrongly claimed that more than half of the Netherlands is currently below sea level.

RNW
"...The incorrect figures which date back to 2007 were revealed on Wednesday by the weekly Vrij Nederland. The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency told reporters that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) added together two figures supplied by the agency: the area of the Netherlands which is below sea-level and the area which is susceptible to flooding. In fact, these areas overlap, so the figures should not have been combined to produce the 55 percent quoted by the IPCC.The discovery comes just a week after a prediction about glaciers in the Himalayas proved wrong. Rather than disappearing by 2035, as IPCC reports claim, the original research underlying the report predicted the mountain ice would last until 2350."

H/T Climate Depot