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“Hopefully, we will awaken from this nightmare before it is too late”

Photo: MCC

Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of MIT, recently spoke in Brussels, at the invitation of the Hungarian political think tank MCC, about the role of consensus in political movements claiming a scientific basis (as is the case nowadays with climate).

Lindzen: “So here we are, confronted with policies that destroy western economies, impoverish the working middle class, condemn billions of the world’s poorest to continued poverty and increased starvation, leave our children despairing over the alleged absence of a future, and will enrich the enemies of the West who are enjoying the spectacle of our suicide march, a march that the energy sector cowardly accepts, being too lazy to exert the modest effort needed to check what is being claimed. As Voltaire once noted, “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”. Hopefully, we will awaken from this nightmare before it is too late.”

Read the article with the entire speech: here

You can also see the speech on YouTube: here

“Net Zero will be a disaster”

Richard Lindzen also published a new article recently, together with William Happer. The central message is that Net Zero carbon dioxide regulations and subsidies in the United States and worldwide must be stopped as soon as possible to avoid disastrous effects on Americans, America, and people worldwide, especially in developing countries.

They write: “At today’s CO2 concentration in the atmosphere of approximately 420 parts per million, additional amounts of CO2 have little ability to absorb heat and therefore is now a weak greenhouse gas. At higher concentrations in the future, the ability of future increases to warm the planet will be even smaller. This also means that the common assumption that carbon dioxide is ‘the main driver of climate change’ is scientifically false. In short, more carbon dioxide cannot cause catastrophic global warming or more extreme weather. Neither can greenhouse gases of methane or nitrous oxide, the levels of which are so small that they are irrelevant to climate.”

“Referring to additional atmospheric CO2 as ‘carbon pollution’ is complete nonsense. More CO2 does no harm. Quite the contrary, it does two good things for humanity: (1) It provides a slight and beneficial increase in temperature, much less than natural fluctuations. (2) It creates more food for people worldwide.”

Read the full article: here

A Climate Declaration from the Czech Republic

An expert working group of natural scientists (especially geologists) has been established in the Czech Republic and has prepared a Declaration for politicians and the general public in the Czech Republic (but also elsewhere in the world). The scientists see this declaration as building on the Clintel World Climate Declaration and as a further development on the basis of new findings in their field.

Read the full article with the Declaration from the Czech Republic: here

English presentations at Clintel Convention now available online

The presentations in English at the recent Five-Year Anniverary Convention of Clintel are now available online at our YouTube channel.

You can see and hear four interesting presentations:

Willie Soon about the role of the sun in climate change.

Jacob Nordangard about the political background of climate alarmism.

Gregory Whitestone about the benefits of more CO2 and modest warming.

And Theo Wolters about the impossibility of Net Zero (in The Netherlands).

At the Five-Year Anniversary Convention of Clintel there was a general feeling of hope and expectation that the Clintel Foundation will only really get up to speed in the second period of five years. Please support Clintel in its efforts! You can do this by becoming Friend of Clintel or making a one time donation. For US citizens, Clintel is a 501(c)3 in the USA. Thank you in advance for any support.

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