by James Murphy November 20, 2024 ( November 20, 2024 )
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The Climate Intelligence Group (Clintel), composed of European and North American researchers and scientists, declared in a communique last week that the “imagined and imaginary ‘climate emergency’ is at an end.”
The group met at the International Scientific Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, even as the UN’s COP29 climate conference was talking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. Clintel in August of 2023 had boldly declared “there is no climate emergency.”
Seventeen scientists and researchers, including CO2 Coalition Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone, signed the communique, which was a rhetorical poke in the eye to the COP29 gathering.
Warming Is Good
While acknowledging some warming since the Little Ice Age ended, the group noted that the warming and the increased CO2 in the atmosphere were a good thing for the planet: “The modest increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide that has taken place since the end of the Little Ice Age has been net-beneficial to humanity.”
In addition, they found that “foreseeable future increases in greenhouse gases in the air will probably also prove net-beneficial.”
Clintel further claimed that the Sun, not greenhouse gasses, was the main reason for any warming of the atmosphere: “The Sun, and not greenhouse gases, has contributed and will continue to contribute the overwhelming majority of global temperature.”
Despite all the fearmongering over extreme weather events such as hurricanes, there is no reason to believe that an apocalyptic climate collapse is imminent, the signatories claim.
According to the document, “There is broad agreement among the scientific community that extreme weather events have not increased in frequency, intensity or duration and are in future unlikely to do so.”
Wasted Effort
In addition, the scientists declared that the obscene amount of global wealth being spent on the so-called climate crisis is wasteful and unnecessary and won’t do much, if anything, to lower global temperatures. “Even if all nations, rather than chiefly western nations, were to move directly and together from the current trajectory to net zero emissions by the official target year of 2050, the global warming prevented by that year would be no more than 0.05 to 0.1 Celsius,” the communique states.
Wind and solar power are not only incapable of meeting global power needs, but also potentially environmentally hazardous:
Since wind and solar power are costly, intermittent and more environmentally destructive per TWh generated than any other energy source, governments should cease to subsidize or to prioritize them, and should instead expand coal, gas and, above, all nuclear generation.”
The scientists further declared the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) an unfit agency to oversee scientific inquiry into climate change and called for its dismantling:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which excludes participants and published papers disagreeing with its narrative, fails to comply with its own error-reporting protocol and draws conclusions some of which are dishonest, should be forthwith dismantled.
As COP29 attendees demand that the nations of the world devote more treasure and time to solve the imaginary climate crisis, it’s good to know there are still honest scientists and researchers out there who are willing to reject those fanciful notions and state facts instead of propaganda.
