De klimaatillusie

“As humanity, we are on the brink of the abyss because of CO2. That is the message that has been going on for years and with my 'Club of Rome background', I thought the same way for a while. Until, after my retirement as Chief Technical Officer at Philips, I had the time to really dive into it. And then you soon discover that the whole idea of ​​a climate crisis is mainly based on circumstantial evidence.
You cannot simulate the climate, not even partially, in a laboratory, let alone experiment with it in nature. Our knowledge of the extremely complex phenomenon 'climate' is therefore purely based on observations and their (current) interpretations. Perhaps all quite plausible, but based on our still limited knowledge of the climate. But also based on unproven assumptions, shaky models and a far too short period of reliable observations.
Fortunately, there are still some interested outsiders, usually retired scientists who no longer depend on collecting research funds for their daily bread, who know that climate science is far from settled.”

This is how the introduction to the essay begins The Climate Illusion that Ad Huijser wrote for the Clintel Foundation. Huijser, former head of the renowned Philips NatLab, extensively studied the climate dossier after his retirement. He wrote several articles about it, including for the American website Watts Up With That. In this essay he summarizes his knowledge about the climate for a wide audience.

About Ad Huijser
Ad Huijser studied Applied Physics at TU Eindhoven (1963-1968). In 1970 he joined the Philips Physics Laboratory as a researcher and obtained his PhD from TU Twente in 1979. After various research and later management positions in Philips' NatLab., the Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics Divisions, he was appointed "boss" of the NatLab in 1994 and in 1998 responsible for worldwide Philips Research
organization. Huijser was a member of the Board of Directors of Royal Philips Electronics from 2002 until his retirement in 2006 and, as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for all R&D, Innovation and Intellectual Property.