Beyond the climate change consensus: historic meeting at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
László Szarka, the Hungarian Clintel ambassador, has successfully organized a historic meeting in the magnificent building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The original intention was to hold a balanced debate and confrontation of views on climate issues. However, mainstream scientists aligned with the IPCC declined to participate, resulting in a program dominated by sceptical presentations. Nevertheless, the event can be considered a significant breakthrough, as it marks the first time the Hungarian Academy of Sciences permitted such a gathering to take place on its premises. Here is a report on the “Beyond Climate Change Consensus” event in Budapest (including videos and presentations), written by László Csaba Szarka.
Headquarters of the 200 years old Hungarian Academy of Sciences on December 8, 2025
Picture: Wim Röst
László Csaba Szarka
Date: 23 december 2025
„To spread clear concepts and clean confused ones from their dross as much as possible…”
Count István Széchenyi: Around the Hungarian Academy (1842)
At the May 2025 General Assembly, the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Tamás Freund O. M.) declared that the Academy is willing to organize an international climate-energy conference where researchers representing views pro and con can confront their arguments. Due to the mainstream objection, at the Conference “Beyond the Climate Change Consensus” (BCCC) only one side was represented among the lecturers. The President limited the length to half day, and he accepted from abroad only two keynote speakers: Prof. Demetris Koutsoyiannis (Greece) about climate and Prof. Samuel Furfari (Belgium) about energy.
The conference, took place in the afternoon of December 8, 2025, in the Grand Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was chaired by Gábor Náray-Szabó O. M. After the three lectures (Szarka, Koutsoyiannis, Furfari), there were five oral contributions. Four ones presented original results (Dr. Javier Vinós, Dr. István János Kovács, László Báder and Csaba Huszár), while one contributor (Prof. Antal Embey-Isztin) argued for the Consensus. The number of participants was around sixty. The 3 presentations, 5 comments, and the reply section are captured in a total of 9 video recordings.
Monday morning, the Energy Working Group of the Batthyány Society of Professors, in the Small Hall of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences organized a connecting pre-event with two further lectures: Javier Vinós (Spain) and Marcel Crok (Clintel). Vinós talked about his book “Solving the Climate Mystery” (which is going to be published also in Hungarian language), while the Director of Clintel provided a summary about the activities of Clintel. After laying the foundations of Clintel by the former Clintel President, Prof. Guus Berkhout, Clintel, since December 4, 2025, has been led by Prof. Václav Klaus, former President of Czech Republic. Clintel, networked throughout the world, is looking forward to an active period. The morning pre-event, spiced with lively discussions, was documented in two-two presentation files and video-recordings.
In the evening, the foreign guests of the BCCC day enjoyed the Advent Art Evening organized by the Academy Club, including concert (Choirs Cantemus and Pro Musica from Nyíregyháza), enamel art exhibition (Anastasia Vdovkina), wine tasting (Enikő Luka, Sopron), and enjoyable personal discussions with other participants.
In this report you find photos, and links to the 11 video-recordings and 10 presentation files of the BCCC Conference pre-event held in the Academy Library and of the BCCC conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. You also may get insight into the atmosphere of the Advent Art Evening of December 8, 2025.
I wish all of you Merry Christmas and successful (“climate intelligent”) new year:
Budapest − Sopron, December 19, 2025
László Csaba Szarka O. M.,
Energy Working Group of the Batthyány Society of Professors,
Clintel Hungary
Pre Event
Javier Vinós: Thermodynamic vs. Radiative Climate Change
Marcel Crok: Clintel News
The pre-event in the Small Room of
the Library of the Hun. Acad. Sci
Samuel Furfari, Marcel Crok, Demetris Koutsoyiannis,
Javier Vinós, László Szarka at the Milutin Milanković
memorial plaque at the Reading Room of the Library
BCCC CONCEFERENCE AT THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
László Szarka: What is Climate Science?
Demetris Koutsoyiannis: H2O, CO2, Climate Change
Samuel Furfari: The EU’s misleading decarbonisation and its geopolitical consequences
Samuel Furfari, Gábor Náray-Szabó
Oral contributions
Embey-Isztin A: In terms of scientific consensus, modern climate change stands apart from all other scientific disciplines.
Báder L: Surface Enegy Balance: Quick Assessment Using General Systems Theory and Climatic Energy Balance Diagram.
Replies and closing words
Written-only Contributions
Sánta R, Garbai L: Investigation of the dynamic equilibrium of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Air Qual Atmos Health,
Soon, W: The Science of Climate Change: Comparing and contrasting the roles of atmospheric CO2 and the Sun,
ADVENT ART EVENING
TAKE-AWAY MESSAGES
From Demetris Koutsoyiannis:
What the evidence actually shows
◼ Human CO₂ as the climate control knob is empirically untenable once we properly account for:
(1) natural CO₂ fluxes (∼25× larger);
(2) the effect of H₂O (vapour + clouds, ∼20× larger);
(3) the huge complexity of the climate system, including the biosphere’s role.
◼ Climate models are in disagreement with observation while reversing cause and effect.
◼ In complex systems, data are sovereign — and the data have falsified the mainstream climate theory.
◼ The emission-centric paradigm was a political project that conscripted science to provide authority.
◼ “Climate science” is therefore not just corrupted science — it is purpose-built instrumentation wearing the lab coat of science while abandoning its method.
◼ Scientists’ job is to kill bad theories and rip science back from politics — not posture as saviours of the planet.”
From Javier Vinós:
Changing the amount of heat transported between two regions with different GHE, changes the outgoing emissions, the energy content, and the climate.
From Samuel Furfari:
Energy addition, not transition: fossil fuels remain the bedrock of progress.
From László Csaba Szarka:
„Consensus Building” is outside the rules of science.
From Count István Széchenyi, Founder of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
To spread clear concepts and clean confused ones from their dross as much as possible… (Around the Hungarian Academy, 1842)
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