Guus Berkhout is at it again ...
1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, declare climate ’emergency’ a myth
Some Background:
Augustinus Johannes "Guus" Berkhout (born 1 April 1940) is a Dutch engineer who has worked for the oil and gas industry, and as a professor.
Berkhout started his career working for Shell. Between 1976 and 2007, he served as professor of acoustics, geophysics and innovation management, at Delft University of Technology.
"The declaration, put together by the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL), was made public this month”
“Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) is an ‘independent’ foundation that operates in the fields of climate change and climate policy. CLINTEL was founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok. CLINTEL’s main objective is to generate knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of climate change as well as the effects of climate policy.”
Guus does this every few years:
More background:
Berkhout founded the Netherlands-based organization Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL). Mid 2019 plans of CLINTEL and Berkhout were leaked showing that they were organizing a campaign against political commitments to net zero carbon emissions being made into law. The campaign features a number of academics and industry figures with ties to climate change sceptics groups, as well as members from oil and gas companies. Berkhout claimed the ideal of the organization was to provide an alternative to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[9]
In late September 2019 the group produced an open letter which presented a European Climate Declaration, stating that there was no climate emergency and repeating a number of claims that were inconsistent with the scientific evidence on climate.[10] A fact check performed by climate scientists for Climate Feedback gave the letter an overall scientific credibility of "very low", and tagged it as "Biased, Cherry-picking, Inaccurate, Misleading". The analysis also added that, out of the roughly 500 signatories, only 10 self-identified as climate scientists.[11] The document was later rebranded as the World Climate Declaration.
The two “Nobel Laureates” listed in this declaration are:
Ivar Giaever: “the “measured” average temperature increase in 100 years or so, is 0.8 Kelvin.”
Well, in fact the temperature increase in the last 100 years is over 1ºC and much of that has happened in the last 20 years.
John Francis Clauser : In May 2023, Clauser joined the board of the CO2 Coalition, a climate change denial organization.
Just randomly looking at the background of other signers comes up with more non-climate scientists with ties to energy companies and denial “think tanks.”
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Given that my 2019/2020 Post-Apocalyptic climate game’s “unlikely” and “alarmist” scenarios have happened (massive uncontrolled wildfires) or are really close (just 1 or 2ºF Wet Bulb temps from the 95ºF “we die” levels) I’ll have to call this more denialist nonsense.