All Entries in the "Conferences" Category
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The power of forecasting
by Jacob Arfwedson
In the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt asked his administration to undertake a vast exploratory study of future technologies. A group of researchers eventually produced a voluminous report with fascinating insights. There was only one little glitch: the document did not foresee television, plastics, jet planes, organ transplants, laser technology, or even ballpoint pens.
As Ludwig [...]
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Climate Change Reconsidered
Join CFACT for an International Conference on Climate Change
Friday December 4, 2009, Hotel Melia Berlin
On the Eve of COP15, the UN Conference in Copenhagen, scientists and policy experts will gather at Berlin’s Melia Hotel to discuss the science, politics, economics and impacts of climate change.
Almost daily new evidence arises that challenges the IPCC’s [...]
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 [...]
CFACT Co-Hosts Climate Conference in Berlin
Event marks second gathering of climate realists in a year
On 17 April, an audience of 80 assembled in the Parliament of the State of Berlin, Germany, to listen to the latest findings of climate science. Under the patronage of the FDP-group, supported by the European Climate and Energy Institute and CFACT Europe, a range of [...]
CFACT Co-Sponsors 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York
“This is a truly historic event, the first international conference devoted to answering questions overlooked by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” said Joseph Bast, President of the Heartland, a Chicago-based think tank, at the opening of the event.
And he continued: “We’re asking questions such as:
how reliable are the data used to document the recent [...]
CFACT Europe at the Capitalist Ball
What better to celebrate than individual freedom? For the third year in a row CFACT Europe joined conservative and libertarian leaders to raise a glass to liberty at CNE’s Capitalist Ball on 12th October at the usual venue, the Concert Noble, in Brussels.
CFACT Europe presents its new book in Brussels
On October 11, CFACT Europe’s Executive Director Dr. Holger Thuss presented Edgar Gaertner’s new “Eco-Nihilism. A Critique of Political Ecology” (Öko-Nihilismus. Eine Kritik der Politischen Ökologie) at a private reception in the Brussels Renaissance Hotel.
The many invited guests, mainly from the media, like-minded think tanks and assistants of MEPs, were able to listen to some [...]
