The writer is in Australia

ON NOVEMBER 30, 2023, three eminent American climate scientists – Richard Lindzen Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, William Happer, Professor of Physics, Emeritus Princeton University and Steven Koonin, University Professor, New York University – made a submission to the Court of Appeals in The Hague, the Netherlands, to support Shell against an organisation called Milieudefensie which claimed that the oil giant would be breaking the law if it failed to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45 per cent by 2030. Mileudefensie lost the case, appealed and lost again. The scientists’ 27-page submission can be read here. It is cogently and lucidly written and not loaded with jargon, charts and graphs.

The amazing feature of this judgement is that it was made at all. In my 15 years (at least) of studying everything I can lay my hands on about climate change, I have never come across a climate change discussion where any sceptical viewpoint was even permitted, let alone discussed.

That this has happened is because the judges in The Hague had no choice but to do their job properly and pay attention to the defence argument. This meant that they had to read the submission, which proved beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was innocent.

It is reasonable to expect that this ground-breaking case result would catch the attention of the mainstream media and given wide exposure. But no, the MSM is entirely captive of the man-made global warming scam. So it never appeared anywhere except in the mostly silenced organisations that reject the scam.

More recently, on January 26 this year an organisation called Climate Change Dispatch published the results of scientifically valid experiments that proved beyond doubt that CO2 cannot cause global warming. This is another clearly written article blowing away the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) catastrophe scare. But of course it can be found only in online publications. Reports such as these would never be accepted for publication by so-called authoritative journals such as Nature or Scientific American.

There are a great many organisations, website producers and podcasters who constantly reject the AGW scam: the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) founded by the late Lord Nigel Lawson; the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT); The Heartland Institute; Watts Up With That; TCW’s own weekly columnist Paul Homewood, and many more.

But in spite of the best efforts of these think tanks, the scientists and the few brave sceptical politicians who support them, the Western world remains in thrall to the AGW crisis narrative and largely uncritical of ‘renewables’.

On March 28 the Australian revealed one such project that will occupy 20,000 square kilometers of prime agricultural land in New South Wales hosting 11 wind farms, 27 solar farms, six battery storage units and a camp for 6,000 non-local workers. The project works started by bulldozing 650 trees that lined a road to the site during the bird-nesting season, ignoring an alternative route that had been proposed.

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