climate change

Vijay Jayaraj, Climate Scientist, Contributor to Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation: Despite its many scientific and structural failings, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world’s most influential, though not the most credible, source of policy on climate change. For over two decades, this has enabled it to persuade governments around the world to implement global climate policies that are harmful to nearly everyone in the developing world. The developing world requires massive amounts of reliable, affordable energy, especially electricity, for power-hungry industries and cities. Without it economic engines will stall causing a large-scale disruption of growth and development, trapping billions in poverty and pushing hundreds of millions back into it.

IPCC, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change writes about Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming. It encourages the world to drastically reduce use of fossil fuels to attempt to keep atmospheric CO2 near or below 400 ppm. The Science Advisor to the White House says that most National Academies of Science across the world agree with IPCC reports. People need to study summaries of actual data and listen to scientists who challenge the IPCC. If IPCC recommendations are forced on us, the results may be a return to life before the 18th century, many on tenant farms, manual and animal labor, slavery, a significant involuntary reduction in population worldwide. No war has accomplished such things on so large a scale with terrible consequences for people and the environment.

Don Bogard, research scientist and member of The Right Climate Stuff, TRCS, team, website: http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/. This is a clearly written discussion of atmospheric sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. It explains the contributions of CO2 by activities of mankind (cement, land use, fossil fuels).

Douglas Lightfoot, Mechanical Engineer, Founder, Lightfoot Institute, http://www.thelightfootinstitute.ca: A new study by H. Douglas Lightfoot and Orval A. Mamer finds that the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) on atmospheric temperature and climate is so small it is negligible. The study titled Back radiation versus carbon dioxide as the cause of climate change presents an original graph by the authors showing the concentration of water vapor plotted against back radiation. This is an important contribution to the discussion about CO2 because it allows an accurate comparison of the warming effect of water vapor with the known warming effect of CO2.

Kelvin Kemm is a nuclear physicist and Chairman of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation and Nuclear Africa: The whole global warming and climate change social phenomenon going on around the world is an interesting occurrence in human psychology. It is a mixture of science; psychology; mysticism; politics; and group adherence. The challenge is to separate one from the other.

Professor Philip Lloyd, Energy Institute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, provides his summary of the Paris, COP21 Agreement.

Professor Philip Lloyd, Energy Institute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, provides his summary of the Paris, COP21 Agreement.

John Shanahan, President of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA explains the purpose of presenting all sides of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming, CAGW, / Climate Change debate along with comments by scientists on all sides of this discussion. Support for nuclear energy must be by sound science, i.e. following the Scientific Method. One of the sides in the CAGW debate is not following the Scientific Method. The readers of the efn-usa.org website can decide for themselves.

Paul Dorian, Meteorologist at Vencore reports that in early June, 2016 the sun had no sun spots. He explains the general significance for climate on Earth when there are prolonged periods of no sun spots. The sun is the dominant influence on Earth's climate, no carbon dioxide from use of fossil fuels.

Ed Berry, Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics, summarizes for general readership a detailed scientific report by Willie Soon, Ronan Connolly and Michael Connolly that shows that the sun, not CO2 causes climate change.

Ronald Barmby, M.Sc. in Engineering with major in Geoscience, Author of 'Sunlight in Climate Change: A Heretic’s Guide to Global Climate Hysteria', Our planet has nót to be saved from CO2, but it has to be saved from the green ideology.

The book, Sunlight on Climate Change.. .. .." describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and significantly increase food costs for the very poor.

It explores why declarations of a climate emergency are based on a political agenda, not scientific facts, and invites the reader to reconsider this belief system in the light of science.

John Holdren, Science Advisor to President Barack Obama: Climate change is a straightforward issue. “We are seeing increases in the frequency and intensity of a wide variety of weather extremes, again, through mechanisms and in patterns that fit the fingerprint of the human influence on climate.” This belief has led Dr. Holdren, over the course of his career, to work to drive the nation’s shift toward clean energy policies and sustainable development, and boost cooperation with nations such as India and China on energy issues. That mainly meant using less energy, using a lot less fossil fuels, advocacy for wind and solar and hardly anything for nuclear. He sometimes rides a bicycle to work.

Survey by John Shanahan, civil engineer, Environmentalists for Nuclear - USA, EFN-USA, website: efn-usa.org and John Droz, physicist, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions, website: wiseenergy.org: This survey has ten questions about fossil fuels, man-made global warming, and nuclear energy. Understanding the roles of fossil fuels and nuclear and the debate about man-made global warming are essential to making a better world. It was sent only to the Board of Advisors for EFN-USA. There were 13 responses from members in Chile, France, India, New Zealand and the United States. While the number of responses is very small, they come from people, most of whom have lots of experience in these fields. The survey presents their answers and most importantly their comments - all anonymously. Finally, one respondent offered an additional comment, beyond the scope of the survey. We considered it very valuable and posted it on the last page of this report.

Seth Wynes, Kimberly Nicholas: Current anthropogenic climate change is the result of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, which records the aggregation of billions of individual decisions. Here we consider a broad range of individual lifestyle choices and calculate their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries. We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and substantially reduce annual personal emissions: having one fewer child, living car-free, avoiding airplane travel and eating a plant-based diet. These actions have much greater potential to reduce emissions than commonly promoted strategies like comprehensive recycling or changing household lightbulbs.

Rich Lowry, Editor of National Review: The youthful climate activists claim they’ve been sold out by their elders. Greta Thunberg put it with her usual accusatory starkness at the U.N.: “You are failing us, but young people are starting to understand your betrayal.” This is laughable. By no global measure of social and economic well-being have we failed kids. According to HumanProgress.org, the global poverty rate fell from 28 percent in 1999 to 11 percent in 2013. Life expectancy increased from 63.2 years to 71.9 years from 1981 to 2015. The completion rate for primary school increased from 80 percent in 1981 to 90 percent in 2015. The same benign trends hold for hunger, child labor, literacy.

Greta Thunberg thinks it is wrong for Germany to shut down its current nuclear power plants and burn coal instead.

Burning more coal is definitely not a good idea to reduce CO2 emissions. But that is exactly what the traffic light government is doing at the moment and will do it even more in the future when more stable power generators such as nuclear power plants are taken off the grid. Even floating oil power plants in the North Sea are seriously under discussion.

Christopher Booker: The UK may soon face major blackouts due to the impending closure of 14 nuclear and coal-fired power stations which currently supply nearly 40 per cent of our peak electricity needs. This disaster would be unique in Europe, because of the blindness of successive governments’ energy policy. But it now seems that Germany may get there before the UK following its government’s decision, in the wake of Fukushima, to shut eight of its 17 nuclear power plants immediately, with the rest to follow.

Greta Thunberg, Swedish high school student leading global campaign against fossil fuels: Greta Thunberg has excoriated world leaders for their “betrayal” of young people through their inertia over the climate crisis at a United Nations summit that failed to deliver ambitious new commitments to address dangerous global heating.In a stinging speech on Monday, the teenage Swedish climate activist told governments that “you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal.” Comments by energy and environmental specialists around the world have been added.

Jane Orient, MD, President, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness: Greta Thunberg and her followers must not be allowed to silence or drown out scientists who challenge their apocalyptic scenarios. Or those such as Tony Heller, who expose the fraud. As she herself says, Greta should be in school. And the politicians should be confronted with all these questions. How dare they presume to destroy the world’s economy and our freedoms based on a false apocalypse?

Greta Thunberg, Swedish high school student leading global campaign against fossil fuels: Address to the United Nations, To those wielding power, the activist said, "You are failing us, but young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you." "We will not let you get away with this," she added. "Right here, right now is where we draw the line." Thunberg concluded her remarks by saying, "The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."