Lecture Series 2025

Date: 
Feb 26, 2025

LECTURER: Emeritus Professor Kees de Lange

Kees de Lange is an Emeritus Professor of both Universities in Amsterdam, and has written over 200 papers in refereed scientific journals and is a distinguished member of the CO2 Coalition. In parallel, he is also a politician and was elected member of the Parliament of the Province of North-Holland, and of the Senate of the Netherlands where he served for four years. In this lecture, Prof de Lange goes back to the basics, learning from observations rather than models, thereby demonstrating that there is no credible climate crisis, and that there is much more to climate than CO2 alone. He then focuses on cloud composition and the lack of experimental data, now hampering progress in climate science. He finally addresses global future energy supply, and concludes that nuclear, not renewables, will be the power of the future.

TITLE:
"Natural Science and Earth’s Climate – IPCC: Facts or Fiction?"

Date: 
Jan 29, 2025

LECTURER: Dr Benny Peiser

In 2009, as preparation for the Copenhagen COP15, Dr Benny Peiser and former Chancellor Nigel Lawson founded the GWPF, the world-leading non-partisan think-tank, focusing on climate and energy policy; it promotes a culture of open debate, tolerance and learning. Thanks to their determination and endurance, the GWPF became the lighthouse of climate/energy realism. The ICSF was particularly honored to host Dr Benny Peiser’s farewell lecture as GWPF Director. In it, he described that for too long, climate science and energy policy have been dominated by dogmatism, censorship and eco-socialist control. However, overly-liberal political leaders have now lost power and the tide is turning, the Trump 2 era has arrived. Some legal shackles and political constraints for radical policy reforms remain, so Dr Peiser suggested strategies for eager governments to exit from self-destructive Net Zero targets.  

TITLE:
"How can eager governments get off the Net-Zero hook?"