The historical victory of Geert Wilders of the PVV (Party for Freedom) in the Dutch General Elections of November 22nd was primarily linked to the theme of immigration. But let’s not forget that the PVV has also been a climate sceptic party for many years now. The party doesn’t want money-consuming climate plans [...]
Willie Soon, Ronan and his father Michael Connolly released a new interesting video about the snow cover debate. Clintel covers this debate in chapter 4 of our report The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC. The three scientists published a paper in 2019 comparing snow cover in climate models with observations. In [...]
John Robson, a historian, makes excellent short videos about climate change. You can subscribe to his channel. Yesterday he posted a somewhat longer video focussing on the role of the sun. It is very well done and I encourage everyone to look at the full 20 minutes. It discusses in quite some detail [...]
Earlier this week we announced the thousandth signatory of the Clintel World Climate Declaration. It is American entrepreneur and author David Siegel. He has been following the climate debate for a long time. He has a climate page with links to lots of interesting talks. He also has [...]
By now most people will have heard about the podcast of Joe Rogan. His concept is simple: invite an interesting guest, don't prepare the interview too much and talk for a couple of hours. Rogan was accused of spreading 'misinformation' about Covid during interviews with Robert Malone and Peter McCullough. Rogan has become [...]
Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, gave a talk for the Irish Climate Science Forum and CLINTEL. His online presentation was titled: After COP26, with a looming energy crisis, is there a realistic alternative to Net Zero? The GWPF recently rebranded the name of their campaigning arm to Net [...]
After 8 years the IPCC finally published a new Assessment Report, called AR6. The media went wild: climate change is going faster than ever; extremes are increasing; it has become close to impossible to stay under the 1.5 Celsius target and sea level rise is irreversible. And on and on and on... CLINTEL [...]
Figure: AR6 hockey stick "Climate change is accelerating". With these words, the 8 o'clock national news started last week. The reason: the new, sixth IPCC report. Various media published similar statements. Leftwing newspaper De Volkskrant: "UN panel IPCC: climate change is accelerating, man is 'unmistakably' the cause". Only De Telegraaf dared to let some [...]
Statement by CLINTEL on the publication today of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of Working Group I (WGI) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) August 9, 2021 CLINTEL has carried out a preliminary review of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the AR6 WGI report (on the Physical Science) issued today. [...]
Ross McKitrick, the Canadian economics professor who publishes regularly in climate journals, gave an online talk for the Irish Climate Science Forum and the international CLINTEL Foundation (of which I am the cofounder). I have some sort of special bond with both McKitrick and McIntyre, because back in 2004, when I was an [...]
