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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist IMF Speech Cancelled
[Epoch Times] Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Clauser isn’t afraid to go against the flow. "I am, I guess, what you would call a ’climate change denialist,'" Mr. Clauser told The Epoch Times.The physicist, who also won a third of the Wolf Prize for his quantum mechanics contributions, shared some of his views on climate during a recent speech in South Korea soon after his election to the CO2 Coalition’s board of directors.  "I believe that climate change is not a crisis," Mr. Clauser told the audience at Quantum Korea 2023. He also described the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as "one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation."He argues that climate is primarily set by what he refers to as the "cloud cover thermostat," a self-regulating process whereby more clouds start to enshroud the Earth when the temperature is too high and vice-versa. Although he accepts observations showing that atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, he said he believes that gas’s effect on heat transfer is swamped by a great natural cloud cycle. The physicist said he believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics. The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate initiatives. But there is so much more to be taken from the rubes! "We’re talking about trillions of dollars," he said, adding that powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made "trillion-dollar mistakes." How can you make a mistake when the science is settled? Concerns about such mistakes may have been relevant after Mr. Clauser was slated to speak before the U.N.’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 25. In recent years, the international economic and monetary agency has focused heavily on the climate. Officials have laid particular stress on international carbon taxes.  "The latest IMF analysis finds that large emitting countries need to introduce a carbon tax that rises quickly to $75 a ton in 2030," the agency’s website on climate mitigation states.Can someone figure out what that does to a kilowatt-hour or an average home heating bill or the cost of a gallon of gasoline? Mr. Clauser told The Epoch Times he had received an email indicating that the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) director didn’t want the talk to go forward that day. In an email, an IEO senior official told The Epoch Times that Mr. Clauser’s speech "has been postponed to reorganize it into a panel discussion. We are working to reschedule it after the summer." For now, the physicist doesn’t sound likely to yield. "We are totally awash in pseudoscience," he told The Epoch Times. I'm sure he meant 'settled science'. Related: John Clauser: 2023-07-17 Nobel Winner in Science Dr. John Clauser: There Is No Climate Crisis Threatening the Planet John Clauser: 2023-07-14 Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don't believe there is a climate crisis' John Clauser: 2022-12-11 Nobel Prize Physics- 2022 proved Einstein wrong Posted by: Bobby 2023-08-02 |
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