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By the year 2032, Irish and European historians will wonder as to how the Western World in the early 2020’s unquestioningly believed that there was an “existential climate emergency”, predicated on exaggerated IPCC models and unbalanced media myopia.

They will also wonder how the associated costly drive towards intermittent renewables did not take into account the fundamental electrical engineering imperative of maintaining power grid reliability, in the then absence of any viable grid-scale storage technology.

We are committed to identifying and disseminating the latest climate science to all with an open and enquiring mind, driven by the imperative of objectivity without vested interests. We seek a sustainable future for Ireland and its people.

Roy Spencer, meteorologist. While 2020 will be at or near record-warmth globally, this is not something we should be particularly alarmed about. The recent claim of the first 100 deg. F temperature reading above the Arctic Circle in Siberia is incorrect; it was 100 deg. F in Ft. Yukon, Alaska way back in 1915. The town in Siberia measuring 100 deg. F (Verkhoyansk) is notable for its exceedingly cold winters and hot summers, holding the Guinness World Record for the largest observed seasonal temperature swing: an astonishing 189 deg. F.

Japan's government has big ambitions. It wants to be the world's first "hydrogen economy". This is where the carmaker Toyota comes in. The Mirai (which means future in Japanese) is Toyota's first zero-emissions electric car. Unlike other electric cars, the Mirai doesn't have a huge battery under the floor. Instead, it has a fuel cell under the bonnet, and hydrogen tanks under the back seat. The hydrogen is passed through the fuel cell, where it's converted to electricity, which runs the electric motors. It's the same technology that was used to power the Apollo spacecraft on the Moon missions.

David Wojick, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, CFACT, Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Philosophy of Science and Mathematical Logic, B.Sc. Civil Engineering:: First it was AOC and the Sunrise Movement versus Pelosi and the moderate Democrats in Congress. Now it is Greta Thunberg and the so-called youth movement versus the UN and the world’s major governments. Between the moderates in power and the new radicals, climate alarmism has split wide open. As things stand now the climate alarmist movement is coming apart at the seams.

Thomas Wysmuller, Meteorologist. Chair, Oceanographic Section, 2016 World Congress on Oceans. Founding member of NASA's TRCS Climate Group in Houston, Texas: This is a video presentation asking the question, "Is CO2 a Driver of Temperature, Weather or Sea Level?" The answer challenges the alarms by all of the extremists and school children skipping school on Fridays to demand stopping using fossil fuels.

Thomas Wysmuller, Meteorologist. Chair, Oceanographic Section, 2016 World Congress on Oceans. Founding member of NASA's TRCS Climate Group in Houston, Texas: This is a video presentation asking the question, "Is CO2 a Driver of Temperature, Weather or Sea Level?" The answer challenges the alarms by all of the extremists and school children skipping school on Fridays to demand stopping using fossil fuels.

The average US citizen considers crude oil vital for transportation and does not realize that large amount of this production is used for feedstock in the petrochemical industry. US total crude oil and natural gas liquid production as of December 30, 2021, was 13.4 million barrels per day. About 15% of the 13.4 million barrels becomes feedstock for the petrochemical industry.

Americans should be concerned about energy supplies, as well as the amount of crude oil and natural gas liquids available for manufacture of everyday products vital to maintaining our standard of living. America’s proven oil reserves (38.2 billion barrels) are minuscule when compared Venezuela (297 billion barrels), Saudi Arabia (268 billion barrels) and Canada (173 billion barrels). In short, our ability to maintain high production rates is temporary at best.

POWERLINE, John Hinderaker: In the debate about serious man-made global warming, there are two types of evidence. The first is the raw material of science, observation. The second is climate models created by alarmists for the purpose of generating scary scenarios. Anyone with the slightest acquaintance with science understands that observation (type 1) trumps theory (type2). Which is a serious problem for the warmists, since temperature records show that their models are wrong.

Calvin Beisner, Cornwall Alliance: This is a review about carbon dioxide concentrations for people and nature with historical notes and photos. The change from 180 ppm to 410 ppm in the last two centuries is small compared to historical variations and easily tolerated by nearly all people. Some people may have trouble with higher levels of CO2, but some people have trouble with more cold, more heat, more humidity, more dryness, etc. It is treacherous for alarmists to claim they can control Earth's climate by raising taxes, carbon dioxide sequestration, stopping use of fossil fuels.

realclimatescience dot com: Proposing to calculate a single number for global temperature is useless, especially to a tenth of a degree Celcius and using it as proof of catastrophic man-made global warming etc. Then artificially manipulating this data to support false claims of climate catastrophes. They want to force stopping use of fossil fuels, impose climate taxes, force carbon dioxide sequestration. This is one of the worst crimes against humanity. It will not save the world, but put it in unimaginable misery and suffering.

David Wojick, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, CFACT, Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Philosophy of Science and Mathematical Logic, B.Sc. Civil Engineering: There is little to no CO2 warming in the entire satellite record! Just a step up warming due to the super El Niño 20 years ago. We may now have a second super El Niño step warming but it is too soon to tell. In any case there will still be no evidence of any CO2 induced warming. The gradual increase in atmospheric CO2 has nothing to do with super El Niños.

David Wojick, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, CFACT, Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Philosophy of Science and Mathematical Logic, B.Sc. Civil Engineering: Back when the climate “crisis – emergency – catastrophe – existential threat” stuff emerged, the October 2018 IPCC report was routinely cited as the source, although that seems to have faded. But the standard milestones, like net zero by 2050 and 12 years for decisive action (to 2030), are from that report. The problem is that there is no support in that report for the crisis narrative, none at all. The so-called crisis is a gross misinterpretation.

Jonathan Lesser, Economist, President, Continental Economics: Nuclear power provides valuable benefits. It is highly reliable, emissions-free, and offers far greater power densities than renewable resources. It has proved its value in extreme weather events, when fossil-fuel generation has been unable to deliver because of supply constraints and operational issues. It also provides additional diversity, which can reduce the adverse impacts of fuel price shocks. At this time, the best hope for the nuclear industry appears to be SMR technology.

English translation of original text. Italian scientists submit a petition to not go along with alarmist claims that the world is undergoing catastrophic man-made global warming from fossil fuels. They claim that there is no proof nor evidence of that. Fossil fuels are essential for a modern world. So many people in Italy, across Europe and around the world (excluding China and Russia where extreme green dogma is not tolerated) have been taken in by these false alarmist claims.