An online petition against the honorary doctorate for Frans Timmermans at the TU Delft is rapidly gaining signees. After a national newspaper and the national public broadcaster NOS paid attention to the petition the number of signees almost doubled in one day, from 8000 to now more than 15,000. The university weekly newspaper [...]
© Clintel Foundation / Friday December 31, 2021 CLINTEL Annual Review 2021: Accomplished a lot 2022: much more to do Dear readers of the CLINTEL newsletter, friends, donators, In the following, we - Marcel and Guus - look back at 2021 and we reveal our plans for the year [...]
By Dušan Bižić Whole of my professional life I spent as a meteorologist in the field of applied meteorology, mainly convective clouds and related severe weather. After graduating from university my first job was at the airport. Usual routine consisted of analyzing upper air data (TEMPs), weather analysis charts and different forecasting fields. Once [...]
By Andy May It came up in conversation: How much oil and gas goes into plastics and fertilizer production? It turns out the IEA has a 2018 report on this very topic. They have a separate 2020 report on total energy used in 2019. The reports contain some interesting graphs and data. Below is a comparison of total [...]
World leaders, do you realize how disruptive your energy policies are? Do you also realize how disruptive your lockdowns are? In his Christmas message to World Leaders, Guus Berkhout has three wake-up calls: 1. CO2 budgets and total lockdowns are based on fear; they limit human rights, feed extremism and push mankind [...]
The Green New Deal only plans to generate intermittent electricity, but no plans to replace crude oil, the only fossil fuel that is NOT used for electricity. By Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California and signee of the World Climate Declaration of CLINTEL As late as the 1800’s, the [...]
Reposted From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Tornado damage, Courtesy of State Farm Insurance Powerful, long-lived tornadoes struck western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and the vicinity on Friday night. And within hours, major media outlets, national politicians, and several climate activists were claiming that global warming was partly or mainly to blame. [...]
© Clintel Foundation / Tuesday 7 December 2021 Dear readers of the CLINTEL newsletter, friends, donators, Since 2018 we (Marcel Crok and three colleagues are investigating the homogenization of daily temperatures by KNMI. This homogenization - introduced in 2016 - had the result of removing a lot of tropical days (days [...]
Dear readers of the CLINTEL newsletter, friends, donators, Since 2018 we (Marcel Crok and three colleagues) are investigating the homogenization of daily temperatures by KNMI. This homogenization - introduced in 2016 - had the result of removing a lot of tropical days (days with T > 30 degrees Celsius) and heatwaves in the period [...]
© Clintel Foundation / Friday December 3, 2021 William Happer in The Netherlands: "More CO2? Yes, please!" William Happer, one of the most well-known climate optimists/realists in the world, visited The Netherlands on November 15 and 16, on the invitation of CLINTEL. Happer is a physicist, professor emeritus [...]
