All Entries in the "CFACT EU" Category

Allègre vivace!

Claude Allègre is a courageous man, besides being a former government minister and a scientist. And unlike most public figures in France, he is not afraid to speak his mind on the climate issue.
His new book, L’imposture climatique is a more than welcome diatribe against the ecologically correct and constructivist establishment.

The Pandit, the pundits and the bandits

The IPCC got another knock
recently, perhaps from an unexpected corner. In its 2007 report, the predictions for the Himalayan glaciers indicated that they would entirely disappear by 2035.
In late 2009, at the request of his government, the Indian geologist V.K. Rania (retired) looked into this, and concluded in a White Paper that glaciers (in [...]

Have you met Mr. Jones?

We all suffered at the COP-15 meeting Copenhagen last December, especially from the cold: president Obama had to leave early because of a blizzard in Washington DC. No matter; as we all know cold or heat share a common culprit, namely man-made activities.
If (some) climate scientists were a little less intent on seeking politicised funding [...]

This is not an Avatar

It remains to be seen whether Copenhagen was indeed a watershed; but at least the French mainstream media seem less apologetic in past months. It is comforting for instance to read the columns by Claude Allègre in the weekly Le Point. (He was sacked from competitor L’Express in 2008, presumably for speaking out against the [...]

You ain’t seen nothin yet

If you thought that the Copenhagen jamboree moderated the ambient hysteria, the following items may reassure you that worse is yet to come.

JACOB ARFWEDSON (Paris)
According to researchers at King’s College (London) future natural disasters are bound to increase strongly stress levels and anxiety among our fellow citizens. The authors did demand that these concerns be [...]

Climate Policy’s Third World Threat

Barun Mitra and Manuel de Araujo Address CFACT’s International Climate Eco-Summit (I.C.E.) in Copenhagen

Thanks to Jody Clarke and the Atlas Foundation for their sponsorship of Barun Mitra’s and Manuel de Araujo’s Presentations in Copenhagen.

Merry Christmas my Polar Friends

A Christmas card from Einar Du Rietz, CFACT.EU
After the Copenhagen farce, it’s finally time for joy and for good news.
So let me, as a seasons greeting, send a small reminder about he situation for the cute polar beers.
According to, among others, the international WWF the population is currently around 22-25 000 individuals, a stable population [...]

Crashing a Greenpeace Protest in Style

It used to be that protesters knew what they were protesting. But Greenpeace, not being a weather bureau, feeds its activists a feelgood lifestyle instead of scientific, testable information.  That’s why Lord Christopher Monckton had such an easy time debunking the protester’s prejudices about the global climate. Enjoy the next three minutes as his Lordship [...]

Water seeks its own level: here comes that sinking feeling

What’s the difference between the climate jamboree and the Titanic? At least the latter had an orchestra. Numerous groups are eager to grab the headlines in Copenhagen; the smaller you are, the more original the initiatives. But dressing up as a polar bear is a tiresome business. Better try for direct appeal to bleeding hearts [...]

Activists without concern: how to use the climate for your own purposes

As Noël Coward put it in a song, “Why do the wrong people travel?” It should not come as a surprise, yet the cheerful way in which some groups exploit international events to hijack the agenda is quite astounding (just imagine for a second free-market groups doing the same thing, and the reaction that would [...]

Denmark Trades Dalai Lama for Climate Treaty

Ends Inconvenient Friendship With Tibet

By Einar Du Rietz, Copenhagen
Maybe these guys are serious about the Copenhagen treaty after all. Wednesday evening it became clear that Denmark has reversed its policy on China and Tibet by abruptly recognizing Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. Denmark promised to act with “caution” in future contacts with the Dalai [...]

CFACT meets Greenpeace

If you follow CFACT you probably have seen Lord Christopher Monckton’s speech the Second International Climate Conference in Berlin. If not, you can see it here, or over at CFACT.TV. But there’s more juice from that day.
A Lifestyle and Ideology supplier called Greenpeace sent its members to protest against the conference. Some Greenpeace activists held banners [...]

Making Some Sense in Copenhagen

CFACT.EU reports from the climate summit in Copenhagen
The party, and the – doubtless – costly chaos is on in Copenhagen. During Tuesday and Wednesday, CFACT co-sponsored a well attended seminar on Climate Sense, featuring knowledgeable and often eloquent speakers, including Professor S Fred Singer and world leading oceanographer Professor Nils-Axel Mörner. Both print and TV media often [...]

Pascal’s Wager, Gore’s Wages

“- Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?
- Supposing it didn’t, said Pooh after careful thought.”
(The House at Pooh Corner)
The Economist in its special report argued that the world needs a new climate treaty as an “insurance policy against a catastrophe that may never happen”. A curious statement, especially in [...]

Monsanto, mon amour

In truth, there is no such thing as absolute safety; but this fundamental human need may explain the excessive search for certainty in particular as the world seems awash with a constant flow of disconcerting events.
It seems obvious then to assume that risk is the opposite of safety. But it isn’t: as inaction also entails [...]