Lecture Series 2024

Date: 
Nov 29, 2024

LECTURER: Emeritus Professor Ian Plimer

Emeritus Professor Ian Plimer from Australia was recently in Dublin, so we availed of the unique opportunity to arrange an in-person ICSF lecture by him. His lecture comprised two parts, firstly an analysis of antipodean climate change over the last 4.5bn years, which conclusively demonstrated that climate change was driven by many natural causes, nothing to do with CO2 levels, and secondly an overview of Australian climate and energy politics, which demonstrated the highly negative impacts of current policies – a real lesson for us in the face of the unwise parallel policies being implemented in Ireland, Europe and in the USA. The lecture itself was not recorded, but we have pleasure in below linking an independent media review which took place just before the lecture.

TITLE:
"Past Antipodean Climate Change and Australian Climate Change Politics"

Date: 
Nov 7, 2024

LECTURER: Dr Samuel Furfari

Dr Samuel Furfari served for many years as a Senior Official in energy policy in DG Energy in the European Commission. In parallel, he was Professor in Energy Policy and Geopolitics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. A prolific author and commentator, he recently published a critique of the energy aspects of the Draghi Report on Europe’s Energy Future. His incisive analysis shows that European energy policy unfortunately leans too far towards green ideology and decarbonisation, failing to recognize engineering and economic realities; this will regrettably lead Europe into further economic decline. Dr Furfari passionately argues that we urgently need to return to the credo of the EU’s founding fathers of 1955: the EU’s future is contingent on abundant, affordable and truly sustainable energy.  

TITLE:
"European Energy Policy – an End to Competitiveness?"

Date: 
Sept 18, 2024

LECTURER:

Dr Javier Vinós holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from the School of Medicine of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His career included a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, and an Associate Researcher at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He has been researching climate science for the last 10 years & has written two climate books, the first book “Climate of the Past, Present and Future” is ranked in the top 3% of climatology research works in terms of research interest. In this presentation, Javier dissects the best available data from the past using Occam's razor as a scalpel, his scepticism & his no-assumptions approach in the best spirit of the scientific method. What he shows should surprise most, regardless of their previous opinions on the subject.  The inescapable conclusion derived from the evidence should, in due course, shake the foundations of climate science

TITLE:
“CO2 and Temperature – do they have a Cause and Effect Relationship?”

Date: 
June 19, 2024

LECTURER:

Professor Ole Humlum qualified at the University of Copenhagen and he served as Scientific Director at the Arctic Station in Greenland. During his career, he was Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Visiting Associate Professor, Faroese Natural Museum, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, and Full Professor, Physical Geography at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway, and Full Professor, Physical Geography, at the University of Oslo. Post-retirement, he is director of the Arctic HERO (Arctic Historical Evaluation and Research Organisation). Each month he publishes his http://www.climate4you.com/ updates, summarised annually as a GWPF “State of the Climate” publication. In this lecture, Prof Humlum uses the latest meteorological and climatological data to objectively assess the current state of earth’s climate, based solely on real-world objective observations, with no media hype, no spin. His conclusions provide no evidence of a climate ‘crisis’.

TITLE:
“The State of Earth’s Climate 2024 – No Evidence of a Planetary ‘Crisis’”

Date: 
May 08, 2024

LECTURER:

Dr John F Clauser was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments with quantum entanglement, sharing the prize with French physicist Alain Aspect and Austrian physicist Anton Zeilingeris, their experimental tools laying the foundation for a new era of quantum mechanics. In 2023, he achieved global headlines in announcing his disenchantment with the IPCC catastrophe narrative as “a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.” In this lecture, he demonstrates that there are serious faults in the IPCC models of the Earth’s atmosphere and shows that its interpretation of observational data is fatally flawed. He then introduces his original research on the cloud-thermostat mechanism, which he asserts is the dominant climate controlling feedback mechanism that stabilizes the Earth’s climate and thereby actually prevents runaway global warming. He concludes that there is no climate crisis, and that the trillions of dollars being wasted on pointless mitigation measures should instead be put to constructive use for the real benefit of society.  

TITLE:
“The cloud thermostat is the dominant climate controlling mechanism that stabilizes Earth’s climate; the IPCC catastrophe narrative is a myth”

Date: 
March 20, 2024

LECTURER: 

Prof Nicola Scafetta is an associate professor in Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He has held academic positions in the USA in Texas and North Carolina. His wide expertise also covers the fields of astronomy and complex planetary systems, and he has published more than 150 scientific works and several books. In this lecture, he challenges the IPCC thesis through examining the additional solar impacts on climate, leading to the conclusion of only modest warming this century, providing no evidence of a climate emergency and requiring only very affordable adaptation.

TITLE:
“Climate change, solar activity, and ‘realistic’ impact and risk assessments for the 21st century”

Date: 
February 7, 2024

ICSF SPECIAL EVENT TO COMMEMORATE THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF PROF J RAY BATES (1940-2024) RIP:  

ICSF held a special tribute event in memory of Professor J Ray Bates (1940-2024) by Zoom on February 7. It was an outstanding occasion, where Ray, the gentleman and the scientist, was fondly remembered and highly praised by the world’s leading scientists and his colleagues and friends alike. The Bates Family were fully supportive of the event, and were delighted to see that Ray was remembered by so many with great affection and respect.  The event also provided great motivation to ICSF in continuing in its mission to disseminate objective climate science.

TITLE:
“A Special Tribute to the Life and Science of Prof J Ray Bates (1940-2024) RIP”