‘No scenario where a complete transition is remotely feasible’
Source: Shutterstock In this recent presentation, as speaker of the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), Prof Simon Michaux does the math on what’s required, on the mineral side, to completely phase out fossil fuels. He presents an actual picture, taking the latest developments and future-tech scenarios into account, such as battery backups, [...]
Six years later, New York Times mentions that the Maldives is not sinking
By Jo Nova A little tiny delated backdown from extreme climate hype begins In 2018, a study of aerial photos of 700 Pacific Islands showed that 89% were the same size or growing. This rather destroyed the idea that sea levels were swallowing small nations. The New York Times said nothing. Indeed, the only [...]
Clintel Five-Year Anniversary Convention: “IPCC practices cartoon science”
Willie Soon More and more people realize that the standard climate narrative, as told by most experts, media and politicians, is, at best, much too simplistic. Furthermore, a lot of people are starting to feel the negative consequences of the rash, unfeasible and thoughtless energy transition in person. At the Five-Year Anniversary Convention [...]
We can still avoid the Net Zero trap
Essay by Kees de Lange and Guus Berkhout Former politician prof. Kees de Lange and Clintel co-founder prof. Guus Berkhout state in a new essay that there is no reason to swim further into the Net Zero trap. In the first part of their essay they show extensively that there is no [...]
All things Equal
By Andy May In an interesting linkedin debate between Tinus Pulles and me, two subjects came up that are related to one another and too complicated for a comment. First is Tinus’ question, “Will more atmospheric CO2, all other variables being equal, lead to a higher surface temperature.” The second question arose when I quoted [...]
Tinus Pulles Critique of May and Crok, 2024
By Andy May Tinus Pulles critique of our paper begins by admitting that, at present there are no adverse effects from climate change, but that we ignored possible future climate change effects. This was deliberate, as we wanted to deal only with established and observed facts and data. Climate model projections of the effects of climate change are highly [...]