Opinion by Andy May I wrote my latest book, Politics and Climate Change: A History, because I recognized that government funding of scientific research was corrupting science. We were warned this might happen by President Eisenhower in his farewell address to the public, where he said: “The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars [...]
By Andy May “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Bull…” W. C. Fields and, flying a bomber over Berlin. In late February 2015, Willie Soon was accused in a front-page New York Times article by Kert Davies (Gillis & Schwartz, 2015) of failing to disclose conflicts of interest in his academic [...]
By Andy May In 2016, I published a post entitled “Facts and Theories.” It has been one of my most popular posts and often reblogged. I updated the post extensively for my new book, Politics and Climate Change: A History. This post is a condensed version of what is in the book. Sometimes people [...]
By Andy May SAR is an abbreviation for the second IPCC assessment report, Climate Change 1995 (IPCC, 1996). As explained in my new book, Politics and Climate Change: A History, this IPCC report was a turning point in the debate over catastrophic human-caused climate change. The first IPCC report, “FAR,” was written under the [...]
McKinsey and Company is the world’s biggest management consulting firm, with annual revenue topping ten billion dollars. Lately they have launched a climate scare campaign, no doubt hoping to make a fortune from it, but CLINTEL has called them out. CLINTEL has sent a succinct letter of challenge to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) which generates much of [...]
CLINTEL Amsterdam, October 24, 2020 Professor Guus Berkhout office@clintel.org McKinsey Global Institute, Attention: Mr Dickon Pinner, Senior Partner 555 California Street, Suite 4700 San Francisco, CA 94104, USA. Dear Mr Pinner, To introduce CLINTEL, we are a group of over 900 highly-experienced climate scientists and professionals in 36 countries; we pride ourselves in [...]
Ms. Ursula von der Leyen President, European Commission Wetstraat 200 1049 Brussels 19 October 2020 Madame President, Apocalypse? NO! Fridays for Future recently sent a list of demands to EU leaders about global warming. In response, more than 900 clear-thinking scientists and researchers, members of CLINTEL, join their president, Professor Guus Berkhout, and [...]
Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, who died on Friday October 16 aged 83 after a short illness, knew more about sea level than did Poseidon himself. He wrote more than 650 papers on the subject in his long and distinguished career. He became even more well-known after his retirement than before it, because he decided [...]
Fritz Vahrenholt kindly provided a summary of his and Sebastian Lüning's new book Unerwünschte Wahrheiten. There is no emergency The verdict on CO2 and the industry associated with it has long been made: harmful, dangerous, to be stopped. It is always astonishing that people forget that CO2 is the building material of life [...]
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 [...]
