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Friends of the Earth Netherlands recently filed an appeal with the Dutch Hoge Raad against Shell and the Mens en Milieu Foundation in a last effort to force the company to implement significant worldwide emissions reductions. Lucas Bergkamp, a physician and attorney in Brussels, assisted Mens en Milieu in the proceeding and reported on the hearing: “Friends of the Earth looked tired and sounded like a spoiled child.” The post “Friends of the Earth sounded like a spoiled child in court appeal against Shell” appeared first on Clintel.

In a scathing 5,700-word attack on the current Prime Minister, Tony Blair argued for the British government to abandon Net Zero and smooth relations with Donald Trump. The post Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “Abandon Net Zero and Move Closer to Trump” appeared first on Clintel.

The whole “ocean acidification” thing is no more than an effort to play on the idea that people will find the word “acid” scary, says Francis Menton. The post Ocean “Acidification” – Another Fake Scare That Won’t Go Away appeared first on Clintel.

Dropping RCP8.5 is a step in the right direction but the CERES Team fears that it’s only a small step. The IPCC still looks set to be relying on the current climate computer models for their “climate change projections”. Even using a more realistic “business-as-usual” emissions scenario, their models are still going to simulate dramatic “human-caused global warming”. The post RCP8.5 Has Been Dropped: What It Means — and What It Doesn’t appeared first on Clintel.

The climate-health linkage is only the latest iteration of an age-old pattern of authoritarians who claim expert knowledge to order people’s lives onto the road to serfdom, says Tilak Doshi. The post The WHO is at it Again: Climate Change Repackaged as a Health Emergency appeared first on Clintel.

In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies. The post The climate catastrophe has been called off – the plundering continues. Politicians and the media are complicit. appeared first on Clintel.

In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies. The post The climate catastrophe has been called off – the plundering continues. Politicians and the media are complicit. appeared first on Clintel.

The first efforts of the Trump Administration to shut down offshore wind projects ran into a wall of judicial opposition. They have now come up with Plan B, says Francis Menton. It appears that the administration is entering into legal settlements with wind farm developers, whereby the government pays the developers substantial sums of money to walk away from the projects. The post Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind appeared first on Clintel.

RCP 8.5 has been given its official death certificate. The generation of children who grew up in its shadow, who were told the world was ending before they’d turn thirty, deserve to know the truth. Let’s make sure the message reaches them, says Anthony Watts. The post A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why appeared first on Clintel.

Carbon dioxide is not a toxin to crops, as The Washington Post recently claimed. Demonizing it as the “invisible force” behind nutritional decline ignores the broader picture, says Anthony Watts. “The Washington Post has taken a modest statistical decline in select minerals and inflated it into a planetary health crisis.” The post No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy appeared first on Clintel.

There is no climate emergency, says Clintel’s World Climate Declaration. Thomas Kurz is the author of an upcoming book with that very theme. Recently he spoke about it on Tom Nelson’s podcast. The post Thomas Kurz: Why there is no climate crisis appeared first on Clintel.

The more solar and wind energy is deployed, the more it reshapes the system around it and the more costs shift into areas that are often not immediately visible but should be considered, says energy expert Lars Schernikau. The post Why solar is much more expensive than coal in Germany appeared first on Clintel.