All Entries in the "Climate" Category
Vaclav Klaus to the UN: We Should Not Make Big Mistakes
Politicians know that they have to act when it is necessary. They know that their duty is to instigate public-policy responses to issues that could pose a threat to the people of their countries. And they have to form partnerships with colleagues from other countries when a problem cannot be “confined” within national boundaries. To [...]
CFACT's "Eco-Nihilism" Reviewed by Deutschlandfunk: "Global Warming Is Not the Greatest Problem"
Every Monday, Deutschlandfunk (DLF), Germany’s national information radio station rewiews what it considers the nation’s most important political literature. On June 16, between Czech President Vaclav Havel’s autobiography, and a book by Alice Schwarzer (Germany’s most prominent feminist) Edgar Gaertner’s “Eco-nihilism” was presented and reviewed for the listeners.
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 [...]
CFACT Europe Challenges Environmentalist Orthodoxy with "Eco-Nihilism: A Critique of Political Ecology"
In the 1970s and 80s, environmental policies rose to prominence as environmentalists scored many political victories. But our successes in cleaning rivers and air pollution were unfortunately followed by an environmental populism that led to an intellectual and economic downward spiral, often driven by fears of approaching ecological cataclysm. This devolution of the environmental movement [...]
Berlin Climate Conference: May 30, 2007
On May 30, CFACT Europe, together with the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) and the the German Free Market Institute, is co-hosting a conference on current climate affairs in Berlin (Germany). Key note speakers are Professor S. Fred Singer, University of Virginia, and Ernst Georg Beck, biologist, Freiburg (Germany). The event will take [...]
CFACT Advisor Dr. Hans Penner Challenges Bad Boll Evangelical Academy’s “Mistakes in Logic”
Dear Mr. Kraus, The “Appeal of the Climate Alliance,” drafted by the Evangelical Academy of Bad Boll, contains mistakes in logic that cannot remain unchallenged.
EU-Commissioners Verheugen & Potocnik address EU Liberal Youth Congress
LYMEC calls on Europe to rise to the challenge of globalization Around 150 representatives of various European liberal youth organizations gathered in Berlin this past weekend at the annual congress of LYMEC, their European umbrella organization. Top speakers included EU-Commissioners Verheugen (Enterprise and Industry) and Potocnik (science and research).
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.
UK Channel 4 Documentary Claims ‘Global Warming Is Lies’
Accepted theories about man causing global warming are “lies” claims a controversial new TV documentary. ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ – backed by eminent scientists – is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. The program, screened on Channel 4 will see a series of respected scientists attack [...]
Climate Change Models Aren’t Much Better Than Oracles
PAUL DRIESSEN (Washington) In ancient times, priestesses at the Oracle at Delphi often answered important political questions with enigmatic predictions derived from dreams, signs, casting lots or reading animal entrails. Today, in the realm of climate change, that function is served by scientific priests and priestesses who offer forecasts of dubious value, derived from computer [...]
Dr. Benny Peiser’s Letter to “Science” and Its Rejection
Review Finds Robust Climate Debate Rather Than “Consensus.” Magazine Rejects Corrections. Read and Judge for Yourself. 1. Dr. Peiser’s Analysis of the Oreskes Study e-letter to Science Magazine sent: 4 January 2005
