Author Archive for Holger Thuss
Satellite Data Shows CO2 Not the Main Cause of Warming
Dr. Roy Spencer in Helsinki
Recent satellite evidence shows that computer climate models project too much future warming according to Dr. Roy Spencer who gave the first talk at a yearly meeting of climate realists in Finland coordinated by Dr. Boris Winterhalter. Dr. Spencer is a resercher in meteorology and former Nasa climate scientist. [...]
The Solar Cycle, Climate, Carbon and Crop Yields: EIKE Berlin
On April 17th and 18th members of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) gathered at Humboldt University in Berlin for their annual meeting and to discuss the latest developments in climate research and policy. Participants agreed that the current climate debate serves the interests of energy companies and the makers of solar panel [...]
CFACT's Presentation to the Paneuropa Youth Conference in Vienna
HOLGER J. THUSS (Jena)
On February 6th an audience of 80 assembled in the Miller Aicholz Conference Center in Vienna, Austria, to discuss the upcoming European Elections, and to listen to various prominent speakers addressing this year’s key event of EU politics. Most of the attendees so called PanAlp09 conference were students and young academics from [...]
Will the U.N. Chill Out on Climate Change?
10,000 people from 86 countries have descended upon Poznan, Poland for yet-another United Nations meeting on climate change. This time, it’s the annual confab of the nations that signed the original U.N. climate treaty in Rio in 1992. That instrument gave rise to the infamous 1996 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, easily the greatest failure [...]
Germany Cancels Biofuel Plans
Fears repercussions from angry motorists
HOLGER J. THUSS (Jena)
“ production may go down as one of the biggest blunders in history. An unholy alliance of environmentalists, agribusiness, biofuel corporations and politicians has been touting ethanol as the cure to all our environmental ills, when in fact it may be doing more harm than good. An array [...]
The Truth About Organic Foods
CFACT is proud to offer its German translation of Alex A. Avery’s The Truth About Organic Foods
Two years ago, the the most talked about book on organic foods in over a decade was issued in English – now, with the support of CFACT Europe, it is available to the 100 Million or so German speaking consumers: Alex [...]
CFACT Europe issues new book – "The Climate Catastrophe – What Is It All About?"
Continuing its growth as an important resource on environmental issues, CFACT Europe recently released its latest publication entitled The Climate Catastrophe – What Is It All About? The Nairobi Report on Climate Change, Climate Madness and Climate Hoax. Click to purchase (German)
This provocative booklet examines the latest political developments surrounding the issue of climate change [...]
Report: Berlin Climate Conference
On May 30, CFACT Europe, together with the European Institute for Climate and Energy and the German Free Market Institute (GFMI), hosted a conference on current climate affairs in Berlin (Germany). The high profile event was hosted by GFMI-Executive Officer Wolfgang Mueller and CFACT Europe’s executive director Dr. Holger Thuss and included presentations given by [...]
12 Reasons The EU Emissions Trading Scheme is an Environmental and Economic Failure
HOLGER THUSS (Jena)
In 2005 the EU created an ambitious EU-wid
e Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to tackle the alleged growing threat from global warming.
The idea of a market-based solution to pollution control is appealing.
Brussels: EPP Energy Seminar Shows Divide Between Old Europe & New
Majority of participants disagree with panelists
The timing was perfect. With much of Europe in the middle of a heated public debate regarding energy security and global warming, the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) — Europe’s largest alliance of political parties — together with the think tank European Ideas Network (EIN), jointly organized an important, high [...]
Potatoes to Diapers
Transgenic Potatoes Yield Sustainable Diapers
HOLGER THUSS (Jena)
A simple way to kill small talk (or exit a Christmas card list) is to declare that you’ll serve your guests genetically modified food and then explain your affection for biotechnologists work with transgenic plants.
Many have heard that “dangerous” “gm” crops will allow killer tomatoes to escape Frankenstein’s laboratory [...]
