Bill Gates is throwing several billion dollars at climate change. Mind you he is not throwing it away, because it is mostly venture capital for new energy technologies, which could pay off handsomely without climate change. Gates can do what he likes with his riches, but he is a leading figure and lately [...]
Mr. Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 500 Fifth Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 USA September 14, 2020 Dear Mr. Gates, CLINTEL Respectfully Challenges Your Article: ‘COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse’ The Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) represents 900 scientists, engineers and other professionals from 33 countries in climate and [...]
Professor Stephen Richardson, President, Institution of Chemical Engineers, 189 Railway Terrace, Rugby, United Kingdom, CV21 3HQ. 24 August 2020 Dear Professor Richardson, Your Institution’s climate-change position statement The Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) is an international scientific society representing almost 1000 scientists and engineers in climate and related fields. As CLINTEL’s President, I am [...]
Preamble Universities serve society by generating and passing on scientific knowledge through research and teaching. Today, universities have become a primary source of prosperity in their region. The higher the scientific level realized, the larger the contribution to prosperity. Universities, therefore, should promote excellence at all times. This means that they should not settle [...]
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s website On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy inshore coral reefs were dead from climate change and deteriorating water quality. Ignoring the first censure in April [...]
Climate scientist Willie Soon, signee of the CLINTEL World Climate Declaration, has written an extensive reply to questions from a BBC Radio journalist. His answers are well worth a read and therefore reposted in full below. Dear Ms. Keane, I am wary of responding to your false allegations, since your questions seem somewhat [...]
In the ongoing effort to clearly summarize their position, CLINTEL has published a Scientific Manifesto in the form of ten propositions. These specifically address, among other things, the role of National Academies in protecting the integrity of science, in the face of alarmist dogma. Since the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has [...]
On 11 June 2020 the undersigned, Professor Guus Berkhout, sent an open letter to the President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), as well as an English version to the European (EASAC) and global (IAP) umbrella organisations of the National Academies of Sciences. This letter (attached) expresses concern that academic [...]
National Academies of Science should speak out against climate alarmism, not support it. This is the major message in a recent letter from Professor Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, to the new head of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The integrity of science is at stake. This letter is a model for [...]
Open Letter Amsterdam, June 22 2020 Dr. Angela Merkel, Bundeskanzlerin, Bundesrepublik Deutschland – persönlich Willy Brandt Strasse 1 10557 Berlin Herr Armin Laschet, Ministerpräsident, Nordrhein-Westfalen – persönlich Horionplatz 1 40213 Düsseldorf Freedom of speech in Germany The Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) is an international group of almost 900 climate scientists, researchers and professionals. [...]
