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 [...]
Name: David E. Thompson Residence: Sandia Park, NM Country: USA What is your background? My degrees are all mechanical engineering, which serves as a spectacular springboard into almost any interest. My doctorate at Purdue was on modeling blood flow in the kidney and comparing my math model of this to experimental data [...]
Name: Allan MacRae Residence: Calgary Country: Canada What is your background? I have two engineering degrees related to the Earth Sciences and have done major business on six of the world’s seven continents, including significant business in the Former Soviet Union. Some of my achievements are outlined below: Dr. David Devenny, P.Eng., P.Geol., [...]
Name: Ronald Stein Residence: Country: USA What is your background? As an Engineer, I have had the opportunity to work as a Project Manager for a few decades with an international Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) firm designing and building large energy projects around the world. I founded PTS Advance in 1995 [...]
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 [...]
Name: Dušan Bižić Residence: Zagreb Country: Croatia What is your background? My first love was (and still is) music, but at the age of eighteen at the last minute I changed my mind and, instead of studying piano at the academy, I started studying physics, with wholehearted approval of my neighbours. For [...]
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 [...]
