The co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Physics prize has launched an excoriating attack on the ‘climate emergency’ narrative, calling it a “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people”. Dr. John Clauser notes that misguided climate science has “metastasised into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience”.
Dr. Clauser is one of the world’s leading authorities on quantum mechanics, the study of matter and light at a sub-atomic and atomic level. In 2010 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics, considered the second most prestigious physics award after the Nobel. His comments will help cast further doubt on the obvious falsehood that 99% of scientists believe humans cause all or most climate change. Physicists along with chemists play a dominant role in investigating the science surrounding climate, which at its core focuses on heat exchange and the behaviour of atmospheric gases.
In turn, continued Clauser, the climate pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies and environmentalists. “In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s largest population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science,” he added.
Dr. Clauser is not the first Nobel physics prize-winner to challenge the ‘settled’ scientific and political narrative of climate change. The World Climate Declaration has been signed by around 300 climate professors, and declares: “There is no climate emergency.” The lead signatory is the Nobel laureate Professor Ivar Giaever. Climate models are said to be “not remotely plausible as global policy tools”. They exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, but ignore any beneficial effect, the Declaration states. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science, it says.
Professor Antonino Zichichi is the holder of Italy’s highest merit order, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, awarded for a lifetime of distinguished scientific work including several discoveries in the field of sub-nuclear physics. In 2019 he led a group of 48 Italian science professors in stating that human responsibility for climate change is “unjustifiably exaggerated and catastrophic predictions are not realistic”. In their scientific view, “natural variation explains a substantial part of global warming observed since 1850”.
Recently, four Italian scientists, including three physics professors, undertook a major review of historical climate trends and concluded that declaring a ‘climate emergency’ is not supported by the data. Over many meteorological categories there was “no clear positive trend of extreme events”. Of course, cherry-picking single bad, or ‘extreme’, weather events provides the main fire power for convincing populations that a global and collectivist de-industrialisation must take place within less than 30 years. Last September, the leading nuclear physicist Dr. Wallace Manheimer warned that Net Zero would end modern civilisation. He observed that the new wind and solar infrastructure would fail, cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment “and be entirely unnecessary”. The ‘Climate Industrial Complex’ had “somehow” managed to convince many that CO2 in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on Earth that is exhaled in every breath, “is an environmental poison”, he added.
Dr. Clauser has recently been elected to the board of the Virginia-based CO2 Coalition, a group of around 120 scientists and researchers representing a broad range of climate science disciplines. Welcoming Clauser to the board, the distinguished atmospheric scientist Dr. William Happer, Emeritus Professor at Princeton, said his studies of climate provided strong evidence that there is no climate crisis and that increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world. Dr. Happer is a leading proponent of the ‘saturation’ hypothesis of warming gases such as CO2, observing that at certain levels such gases become saturated in small bands of the infrared spectrum. As a consequence, their warming ability diminishes on a logarithmic scale, an observation that helps explain the 600 million-year geological record, where CO2 measurements have been up to 20 times higher than current atmospheric levels.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Pah! Us climate activists only said 99% of scientists agree with a manmade climate catastrophe. This guy Clauser is obviously in the 1% fringe of nutters in the pay of Big Oil. And he’s not even a climate scientist… (etc etc) </sarc>
Funny———————I often try to be funny like that and end up with 10 red thumbs.
You’re holding the hammer wrong.
Emoji are your friend in that situation! ‘😉🤷♂️😂’ for example!
Speaking of the climate, can we just take a moment to appreciate and admire the demonstrably high intellect of the warriors on the ground, fighting for the future of our planet? Actually they’ve become very attached to that particular piece of ground…
https://twitter.com/AmiriKing/status/1679428780505350145
Oh the irony of them using two extremely environment-unfriendly products as concrete and cyanacrylate glue.
Uh-oh…had a curry last night, I need the loo, can you, er, wipe….er…
Sorry couldn’t resist. Luckily these fine intelligent young examples of humanity obviously only have our and the WEF’s best interests at heart and much greater retentive skills than most…
Just put a few bollards around them so they’re less likely to be run over and leave them there.
Speaking of running them over…Actually it’s a shame the clip cut off where it did. I feel the need to see how it ended!
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1679675778525544448
Well there’s plenty of evidence the truck driver went to considerable trouble to ensure he would not run over anyone. I observed him physically move the obstruction out of the way.
That truck driver is a true gentleman. 👍
I always carry hydraulic snips in the car just in case I run into such an emergency situation and someone needs cutting free.. snigger-snigger.. 😉
Eugypius has just posted on this, will probably appear here tomorrow!
What I want to know is – where are these bright young things going on their hols – sorry travels – this year and will it involve flying, d’you think?
The thing is, one does not even need to be a Nobel Prize Winner to know that Man-Made Climate Change is bunkum. One need merely use the senses your mother and father gave you. As the planet spins on its axis, as it has done since forever, the temperature changes by many degrees centigrade, every 24 hours.
The reason? Sun (or lack of Sun).
Are we all dead yet?
The idea man could do more than this is arrogance in the extreme.
Yawn… Downvoters… Care to elaborate… Or go home, stay safe, please.
It reminds me of the debate on whether masks work against Covid or not.
The gaps are 100x larger than the virus’ size. For anyone with an IQ above room temperature and/or not having other motives it must follow that they cannot possibly work.
CO2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere (ask a believer friend of yours and they often answer 4% or even 40%!), humans and cows emit a % or so of the total and it actually has some important benefits as well.
For anyone with an IQ above room temperature and/or not having other motives it must follow that it cannot possibly be the cause of any global warming but even it it was, humans and cows output of it is irrelevant.
So the real problems are that too few people have an IQ above room temperature and too many have other motives to believe, participate or peddle these obvious falsehoods and lies.
CO2 weighs more than air. Molecular weight of CO2 is 44, that of air 29.
People shouldn’t throw lies in greenhouses, the effect could turn out a little different than they bargained for..
And still some people wear them, including on this year’s Tour de France.
Agreed. We all learned in school that trees need C02 …that was in the days when there were no ‘climate scientists’…..
Incredible, isn’t it, how far down the levels of what I thought was basic knowledge have sunk.
Kids – listen – plants take water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow and the “waste product” is oxygen.
More carbon dioxide equals more plant life. And more oxygen.
Nature’s amazing, isn’t it?
I saw an image of the Milky Way recently with an arrow point to Earth saying “You are here – Do you really think you can control the temperature of the Earth?”
Many commentators here are already aware of all this stuff and we make many comments about it. But the Daily Sceptic is not reaching millions of people like BBC, SKY News, and other major media does. It isn’t going to change minds or awareness on this highly politicised issue by us all agreeing with each other in here.—– How can we get vital information that does not just repeat climate change orthodoxy as if it were all ultimate truth to the general public, in the way that say, the Martin Durkin film “The Great Global Warming Swindle” did in 2007. Because currently the climate change excuse that is presented as fact by major media and politicians for a whole raft of policies pertaining to social justice and other progressive causes is misinforming the public. When the public think there is a climate emergency, they are more likely to accept losing their car, their central heating, their flights abroad and their meat, than they would be if they had a more balanced view of the issue presented to them, which reminds me of a remark made by I think “Schneider” many years ago who said that they have to conjure up scary scenarios or no one will listen. ———–So that is the challenge for you Chris Morrison and all the other regular contributors here. ———Get the message out there somehow. Not just in here.
I agree we need to get the message out even in the face of the Trusted News Initiative. On this (and other) platforms we are permitted to share the arguments and information that we will need in challenging the narrative elsewhere.
Chris Morrison and others do sterling work in bringing us good and bad news about climate alarmism but it is up to all to spread it further as we see fit. We need to challenge TNI and the like.
You’re right of course, Varmint. We do more or less exist in our own echo chamber of outrage and indignation but it’s a good place to vent and share info. Where I live, we have been going to our local council – 3 times now – and demanding they tell us why they declared a climate emergency in 2019, along with just about every town, district and county council around the country. They don’t know. They mumble IPCC and UN but essentially they haven’t a clue and it’s this level of compliance, ignorance and apathy that is leading the climate emergency charge. I will continue to go to these meetings, each time armed with more facts. We are beginning to call them out on this and also for their attempts to appear greener than green like swapping fleets of council vehicles for EV – have they heard about the whole dirty process of lithium mining that requires vast quantities of fossil fuel? No, of course they haven’t. Will they ensure that all new builds have sufficient charging power to power up an EV overnight? Of course they haven’t. It’s alarming to say the least but carry on we must.
Excellent! Thank you.
The Group think means that individuals in positions of authority and in local councils, in teaching positions etc don’t need to know things. They simply follow where they are led from above. Most of these people would have great difficulty explaining anything about climate or energy to a 5 year old. Yet all over the general population where people are often too busy with work and family life to investigate issues such as climate change, people know very little more than what they see on their 6 O’clock News on BBC and SKY every night, and you and I know that these channels have simply become climate change activists rather than investigative journalists.
I do. To everyone I meet, sooner or later.
Thank you, Chris, for a very good summary of recent “statements” by highly credible people against the climate catastrophe narrative.
This is an excellent 2min clip. Love how he puts that CNN dingbat in his place too. You tell ’em, Mr Coleman!
“I am a scientist, and I am the founder of Weather Channel. Science is not about votes, it is about facts. And the facts are clear: climate change is not happening, and there is no man-made global warming.”
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1679605483127095297
Well that story is a bit of a pfizzer 😀
Another Nobel Prize winning physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, gave a more succinct put-down to the sort of unfalsifiable rubbish that is “Climate Science”: It’s not even wrong.
Unfortunately, 100% of politicians and MSM think otherwise. Next week the BBC is treating us to Chris Packham telling us the world will end very soon.
Any scientist downplaying the ‘climate emergency’ is ignored by most of the media.
It shows that too much of the media is pushing an ideology and is not impartial.