Reposted from the CLINTEL website.
To: Borge Brende
President World Economic Forum
Professor Guus Berkhout
President of CLINTEL
guus.berkhout@clintelgroup.org
January 20, 2020
Your Excellency,
Despite global warming, the past 150± years has resulted in an unprecedented increase in the quality and duration of human life all over our planet. For example, poverty was never as low as today. And statistics tell us that – thanks to intelligent adaptation policies – the number of deaths from natural disasters has sharply decreased.
There is no planetary emergency, climate or otherwise. The climate crisis only exists in computer models. Yes we can, and will, continue to strive to do better for all people, on multiple fronts — including understanding climate and knowing how to adapt to changes.
One dire consequence of current model-induced panic is that we are abandoning key elements of our successful, low-cost and reliable energy systems. These are the basis for the quality and duration of human lives! The energy erosion will inevitably result in economic decline and increased poverty, particularly in non-OECD countries.
Therefore, the so-called ‘climate mitigation’ is an irresponsible policy. The fundament of social and economic development is adaptation to the climate evolution.
Despite heated political rhetoric, we urge all world leaders to accept the reality that there is no climate emergency. There is ample time to use scientific advances to continue improving our society. Meanwhile, we should go for adaptation; it works whatever the causes are.
We also invite you to organize with us a constructive, open meeting between world-class scientists on both sides of the climate debate. Such an event complies with the sound and ancient principle that all pertinent parties should be fully heard: Audiatur et altera pars.
Letter to the WEF as pdf
Essay Guus Berkhout as pdf
Yours sincerely, ambassadors of CLINTEL,
Nobel Laureate Professor Ivar Giaever, Norway
Professor Guus Berkhout, The Netherlands
Professor Reynald Du Berger, French speaking Canada
John Droz jr, USA
Terry Dunleavy, New Zealand
Viv Forbes, Australia
Professor Jeffrey Foss, English speaking Canada
Jens Morton, Hansen Denmark
Morten Jødal, Norway
Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannes, Greece
Rob Lemeire, Dutch speaking Belgium
Professor Richard Lindzen, USA
Dr. Thiago Maia, Brazil
Dr. Henri A. Masson, French speaking Belgium
Professor Ingemar Nordin, Sweden
Jim O’Brien, Republic of Ireland
Professor Ian Plimer, Australia
Douglas Pollock, Chile
Professor Alberto Prestininzi, Italy
Professor Benoît Rittaud, France
Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, Germany
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, United Kingdom
Dr. Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, explains why there is no climate emergency.
Michelle Stirling, Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society, has good news for Greta Thunberg. She explains where the climate catastrophe notions originate and discusses how things are getting better around the world. She also explains that Al Gore, as far back as 2009, wanted to instill fear in people – but there is no reason to fear as the CLINTEL climate essay explains.
Read Roger Pielke, Jr.’s article in FORBES on how catastrophic climate forecasts became embedded in scholarly works, the media and the minds of business people. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/02/how-billionaires-tom-steyer-and-michael-bloomberg-corrupted-climate-science/#2048cf82702c
“The climate crisis only exists in computer models.”? I don’t think so. The primary source for the climate crisis is uniformed and overheated human minds. Computer models, as they evolve and improve may one day help us better understand climate.
Otherwise, a reasonable assessment of the state of the climate crisis.
we cannot predict the weather with absolute certainty, what to say about the climate involves many factors. it is necessary to take into account internal and external factors.
Thanks to computers and the related activities, airplanes crash, peoples lives are ruined by cyber crime, and as of yesterday, even the political process taking place In Iowa has been messed up. More than ever, there is truth in the saying, “Garbage in – garbage out”