[Federalist] A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic claims about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate "emergency" is a myth.John Clauser, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in physics, became the second Nobel laureate last month to sign the document with 1,607 other scientists rebuking the idea of a climate crisis.
"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," the declaration organized by the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) reads. "Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures."
Last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) debuted a roadmap to net-zero emissions that became the model for corporate bishops of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. A June report from the Energy Policy Research Foundation criticized the initiatives outlined as a "green mirage." The IEA roadmap, researchers wrote, "will dramatically increase energy costs, devastate Western economies, and increase human suffering."
"The aim of global policy should be ’prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times," reads CLINTEL’s World Climate Declaration. "There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm."
Norwegian-American engineer Ivan Giaever, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1973, is also a signatory to the declaration.