Lecture Series 2022

Date: 
December 7, 2022

LECTURER:
Professor Ole Humlum has had numerous Lectureships and Professorships at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, the Faroese Natural Museum, Faroe Islands, the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway, and at the University of Oslo. Each month he now publishes his comprehensive http://www.climate4you.com/ updates, summarised annually as a GWPF “State of the Climate” publication. In this lecture, Prof Humlum analyses global meteorological and climatological data to assess the real state of earth’s climate and concludes that all these observations reveal that there is no climate emergency and in parallel he comes to a surprising explanation as to possible cause of observed modern warming.

TITLE:  
“The State of the Climate – Based on Real Observations”

Date: 
October 26, 2022

LECTURER:
Professor Wyss Yim spent 35 years until retirement at the University of Hong Kong. At a global level, he was Leader of the International Geological Correlation Programme Project No. 396 Continental Shelves in the Quaternary 1996-2000, Chairman of the Continental Shelf Working Group of the International Union for Quaternary Research 1999-2003, Deputy Chairman of the Climate Change Science Implementation Team of UNESCO’s International Year of Planet Earth 2007-2009 and is currently Science Advisor of the Association for Geoconservation, Hong Kong.

In this lecture, Professor Yim focuses on terrestrial and submarine volcanoes, demonstrating how these profoundly impact natural climate variability. Studies on the release of geothermal heat from volcanism, underestimated and ignored by the IPCC, improve understanding on the real causes of natural climate variability.  

TITLE:  
“Volcanic Eruptions, a Driver of Natural Climate Variability – ignored by IPCC”

Date: 
September 21, 2022

LECTURER:
Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen is Chairman of the US Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP), amongst many other past and present distinctions. He is author of the textbook “Introduction to High Temperature Superconductivity”, andhas authored numerous papers on topics including, for example, infrared Fourier spectroscopy for rocket re-entry instrumentation and harsh industrial instrumentation.  In this lecture, Dr Sheahen focuses on the work of Professors Will Happer and William van Wijngaarden in their pioneering work in calculating the real-world Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) of the five most common Green-House Gases (GHGs), emphasizing how their calculations have now been precisely verified by satellite measurements, thus validating their research. These results verify the actual low GWPs of these GHGs, and, in particular, of the irrelevancy of the impact of Methane on climate. The results have profound implications, particularly for agriculturally-based economies like those of Ireland and New Zealand. He concludes that there is no scientific basis for regressive agricultural policy; on the contrary, global food scarcity should dictate its further development.

TITLE:
”Methane – the Irrelevant Green-House Gas”.

Date: 
June 22, 2022

LECTURER:
Dr. Lars Schernikau, a commodity trader, entrepreneur and energy economist, presents his challenging views, backed up by hard science. He argues that many fail to appreciate that reliable electricity supply is crucial for socio-economic stability and growth, which in turn lead to eradication of poverty. Understanding the true cost of electricity generation is therefore paramount to designing future energy systems. He introduces the concepts of energy return on energy invested and the full cost of electricity, which also can explain why wind and solar are becoming more expensive the higher their penetration. He then makes important suggestions for energy policy, considering the new challenges that come with global efforts to “decarbonise”, to be achieved through increasing energy and material efficiencies. He advocates research into new generation technology, while in parallel investing in conventional generation technologies until that new technology becomes feasible. He suggests that politicians should pay heed before current renewables-focused policies lead to energy blackouts!

TITLE:
”How to Make Future Energy Affordable, Reliable and Sustainable”.

Date: 
May 18, 2022

LECTURER:
In this talk, author, communicator and entrepreneur, David Siegel, explores how the global temperature record is made, what the greenhouse effect really is, and how the sun and the shapes of the continents are mostly responsible for our climate. He challenges us on whether the earth is really warming as much as people think, and if there are "positive feedbacks" that will create runaway death and destruction? He shows that we are now starting to learn more about what really drives our climate, and the more we learn, the more the scary narrative of the IPCC falls apart. This lecture is on the physical basis of climate, not the political nonsense.

TITLE:
“Get to know the real cause of Global Warming – and zap your Eco-Anxiety”

Date: 
April 20, 2022

LECTURER:
Tom Gallagher and Roger Palmer, both Canadians, from Victoria, the capital of Vancouver Island, have life-long complementary careers in the study of the paleoclimate, geology, earth/ocean systems and the related quantifying methods.  Their presentation is a fascinating review of the lessons learnt from the last 67 million years of earth’s history, with its many ice ages and, in particular, from the 11,000 years since the most recent glaciation. Their conclusions debunk the notion of a climate emergency, suggesting rather that we should enjoy the current benign climate before the onset of the next ice age. 

TITLE:
“Lessons from Paleoclimate – Conveniently Ignored by the IPCC”

Date: 
March 23, 2022

LECTURER:
Professor Michael Kelly, FRS, FREng, is Emeritus Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the University of Cambridge. He studied Mathematics and Physics to at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and completed his PhD in solid state physics at Cambridge. Amongst many other distinctions, he is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Academy of Engineering of New Zealand.  Professor Kelly previously addressed the ICSF in December 2019 on “Energy Utopias and Engineering Reality”. Since then he extended his analysis to the practical challenges of the UK’s 2050 Net Zero ambition and concluded that the cost would exceed £3 trillion and that the target was simply unattainable. A parallel study for his home country, New Zealand, led to a similar conclusion. In this lecture, he extends his analysis to cover Ireland, which also aspires to a Net Zero 2050, but without any appreciation of the associated costs and resources. (Apologies for the loss of sound in the first 30 seconds of the video recording).

TITLE:
“The Cost of Achieving Net Zero in Ireland”

Date: 
February 10, 2022

LECTURER:
Dr Patrick Moore describes himself as a “sensible environmentalist” and is internationally acclaimed for his forthright views on fake catastrophe narratives. Raised in pristine Vancouver Island, British Columbia, later with a PhD in Ecology, in the 1970s he campaigned with Greenpeace against nuclear bomb testing and whaling. Having led Greenpeace for 15 years, in 1986, he left them over major differences in policy. In the 1990s, he continuing with several personal campaigns. In more recent times, his thoughts have synthesised into what he calls a unified theory of scare stories. In his lecture, he highlights some of the patent fallacies that are thrust by activists upon society nowadays. He is dedicated to truly sustainable development, and is totally convinced that healthy skepticism is at the very heart of scientific enquiry. 

TITLE:
“Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom”