© Clintel Foundation/Saturday 9 November 2024

Dutch coalition party calls for stop on wind turbines on land after devastating Clintel report

The drawbacks of the massive deployment of wind turbines on land, especially regarding public health, are very serious but don’t receive enough attention. That is the conclusion of the new Clintel report Het Windmolendrama (The Windmill Tragedy). Following the report, the Dutch coalition party BBB calls for an immediate stop on new wind turbines on land.

The Clintel report makes a critical inventory of the political, scientific, economic and legal issues surrounding wind turbines on land in The Netherlands. The major issue in the report are the possible health effects of wind turbine noise, which so far have been largely ignored by the Dutch government (institutions), especially the health impact of infrasonic vibrations, which include chronic sleep deprivation and heart disease. Partly because of these neglected health issues, the report states that there is insufficient  legal basis for the deployment of (new) wind turbines on land.

Clintel director Marcel Crok presented the report to Henk Vermeer, co-founder and MP for the political party BBB (Farmer-Citizen Movement), on October 31st. In his reaction to the scathing findings, Vermeer announced he would submit a list of questions to the responsible minister for Climate and Green Growth (Hermans, People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) and call for an immediate stop on new wind turbines on land.

Read the full article: here

 Has the Sun’s energy changed over the last 45 years?

Sun-monitoring instruments on satellites describe the energy reaching the Earth from the Sun in terms of the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). These satellite measurements show that the average TSI reaching the Earth is around 1360-1365 Watts per meter squared. They also show the TSI rises and falls slightly over the course of a sunspot cycle. However, most of the satellite missions only last for around 1 to 2 sunspot cycles. Therefore, in order to study the changes in TSI for longer than 10-15 years, scientists need to composite, or ‘stitch together’, the TSI measurements from multiple satellite missions. For more than 20 years, there has been ongoing scientific controversy between rival scientific teams on how to best composite the TSI missions into a continuous record for the entire satellite era.

A major study, led by the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (www.CERES-Science.com), has just been published that revisits this long-standing scientific controversy and provides important new insights that could change our understanding of the long-term changes in TSI over timescales longer than 10-15 years.

The team behind this new paper were shocked at how many completely different plausible composites could be generated from the available satellite data as provided by the satellite mission science teams. You can watch a video about the findings: here

Read more: here and here.

Floodings in Valencia have nothing to do with climate change

“Let’s get one thing straight: the recent floods in Valencia have nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with ignored infrastructure needs and poor urban planning”, says Matthew Wielicki on his substack page. “It’s almost laughable how quickly politicians and mainstream media outlets rushed to label this as a ‘climate-fueled catastrophe’. But take a closer look, and you’ll see that these floods were not only predictable, they were preventable.”

“Following the devastating 1957 flood, city planners took the bold step to divert the Turia River south of the city, a brilliant structural fix meant to spare the city from future tragedies. But what did they do next? They permitted unchecked development right around this newly created flood channel, directly in harm’s way. The worst flooding occured right in these expansion zones. Decades of ignoring the obvious resulted in predictable failure, and no amount of ‘climate crisis’ talk will change that.”

Read the full article: here

Two day Clintel conference in the Parliament of Prague

The Clintel Working Group in the Czech Republic organizes an International Scientific Conference in Prague, which will take place on 12 and 13 November 2024 in the premises of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.

The title of the Conference is Climate change, facts and myths in the light of science. 

The Conference topics will be: Meteorological and climatological observations; Physical processes affecting the climate; Sun, planets and climate; Future climate developments and

Clintel vs IPCC.

Online broadcasts of the lectures will be available on this channel. For more information you can contact Pavel Kalenda, spokesman of Clintel working group in the Czech Republic (clintel_cr@seznam.cz).

Read the full article with the program here

Benny Peiser to speak in The Netherlands on November 26th

Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation for the last 15 years, will give a talk in The Netherlands about the latest (geo)political and economical developments around climate policy. What does the Trump win mean for climate policy? Will the COP29 in Baku flop? Peiser talks from his longtime experience with the climate debate. Peiser: “For the first time in all these years I see people starting to listen to us.”

The talk will be given on Tuesday 26 November at 8 pm, shortly after the end of the COP29. The venue is Antropia conference center in Driebergen-Zeist. If readers from outside The Netherlands would like to attend, please contact evert.doornhof@clintel.org. The lecture will be recorded and be made available online after the event on the Youtube channel of Clintel.

Read the full article: here

It is better to be half-turned than to have gone astray!

Not climate change but climate policy is the main threat for the prosperity of western societies at this moment. The Clintel Foundation has stated, with a global network of 2000 scientists and experts, that there is no climate emergency. Western leaders, however, have all voted in favour of Net Zero targets for 2050, which will have a disastrous effect on our economy and therefore our prosperity.

These climate policies are a threat for entrepreneurs and it enters deeper and deeper into the private life of citizens. Wind turbines of close to 300 meters in height industrialise our countrysides, harming the environment,, biodiversity and public health. House owners are forced to replace their gas heaters by costly heat pumps, leading to rising energy bills. More and more cities reduce speed limits to 30 kms per hour.

There is no support base among the population for all these costly measures but our political leaders so far ignore these objections. Sooner or later the tide will turn, because these policies are unfeasible and unaffordable. Clintel wants to speed up this process by making both citizens and political leaders aware of all the pitfalls. Clintel receives no funding from the government nor from the Postcode Lottery or the industry. We therefore ask citizens and small businesses to support us in our mission.

Your support will be used to:

* Explain in all details there is no climate emergency. No one should be afraid of climate change. We use our websites and social media channels to spread this information and also give interviews in the media.

* Analyse and criticize IPCC reports. We check them for alarmism and one-sidedness. In 2023 we published the book The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC.  We confront the IPCC with our results and will force them to respond to our criticism.

* Raise awareness for the negative side-effects of the current climate policies, both in terms of cost and impact on humans and the environment.

* Intervene in high profile climate court cases such as the one between Friends of the Earth and Shell in The Netherlands. Climate policy should be discussed in Parliaments, not in the courts.

If you share our views, please consider to support us through a (monthly) donation or by becoming Friend of Clintel. Clintel is also a 501(c)3 in the United States.

Thank you!

Guus Berkhour, president of Clintel

Marcel Crok, director of Clintel

Clintel is an Amsterdam (The Netherlands) based thinktank founded in 2019 by Dutch emeritus professor Guus Berkhout and science writer Marcel Crok.

Clintel operates as a climate science and climate policy watchdog. In its first year it launched the World Climate Declaration, stating “there is no climate emergency”. That declaration is now signed by almost 1900 scientists and experts.
Clintel is independent from governments and industry. Our donors are private citizens and small companies around the world.

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