500 Scientists to UN: ‘There is NO Climate Emergency’
More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.
Just as 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York accusing world leaders of robbing her of her future, scientists were begging the United Nations to keep hysteria from obscuring facts.
“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” the declaration states. “Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation.”
The scientists underscored the importance of not rushing into enormously expensive climate action before fully ascertaining the facts.
“There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent,” they declared. “However, CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. For instance, wind turbines kill birds and bats, and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests.”
The signatories of the declaration also insist that public policy must respect scientific and economic realities and not just reflect the most fashionable frenzy of the day.
“There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm,” they note. “We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050.”
“If better approaches emerge, and they certainly will, we have ample time to reflect and adapt. The aim of international policy should be to provide reliable and affordable energy at all times, and throughout the world,” they state.
In particular, the scientists criticize the general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is currently founded as “unfit for their purpose.”
“Therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions on the basis of results from such immature models,” they propose. “Current climate policies pointlessly, grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, continuous electrical power.”
“We urge you to follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation,” they declare.
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Carbon Bigfoot
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As a signer of the Petition Project where 31,000 + scientists, engineers, geologists, meteorologists, real climatologists, physicists, earth & space experts, MDs, etc., 9000 of which were PhDs was submitted to the Congress (and it is on the Federal Register) in 2007?. Why is that not reintroduced to add scale and reinforce this letter?
https://oism.org/pproject
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Holger Gronwaldt
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” Why is that not reintroduced to add scale and reinforce this letter?”
Maybe, because the petition is a load of rubbish and the process as a whole was fraudulent?
Since when are Mickey Mouse and the Spice Girls climate experts? As a matter of fact, no one was required to provide any proof of identity or scientific qualification, so besides one person sending multiple signatures it would have been – and most likely was! – fairly easy to swell the numbers of signatories far beyond that of persons who really had any sound knowledge on the subject. Your claim “31,000 + scientists, engineers, geologists, meteorologists, real climatologists, physicists, earth & space experts, MDs, etc., 9000 of which were PhDs” is not only preposterously wrong, it’s a downright lie!
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Big Ter Guy
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Some pranksters added a few dozen names to create the impression the list is illegitimate. But I know about 100 of the signers to be respected, legitimate PhD level scientists in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and computer science. I recognize another 100 or so names. as legit. My estimate is that 90% are legitimate.
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Carbon Slut
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I like your handle. You’ve inspired me.
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Ziya
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How much did the oil tycoons pay you? It is a shame not to notice that natural disasters have become more frequent on the planet. Putin paid you? He just recently also said that windmills are bad for birds and moles.
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shane
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Show me some stats that prove natural disasters have become more frequent on the planet. Please
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Obo
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