Paris Climate Challenge

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</font></div><div><article id="post-1" class="post-1 page type-page status-publish hentry" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(246, 246, 246); padding-bottom: 3em; padding-top: 3em;"><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 760px; width: 760px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.333333em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; letter-spacing: -1px; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">about PCC15</font></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 760px; width: 760px;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you would like to contact us please email <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/mailto:info@pcc15.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">info@pcc15.org</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Challenging the groupthink of COP21</font></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stuart Agnew, </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bob Carter, Piers Corbyn,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit;"> Ed Flaherty, Philip Foster, Roger Helmer</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Tom Harris, Donna Laframboise, Viscount Monckton, Patrick Moore, Nils-Axel Mörner, Ian Plimer, </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Murry Salby],</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Roger Tattersall </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">& more …</span></span><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  tba</span></font></p><blockquote style="font-weight: inherit; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 76px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. – </span></span>Gen. George Patton</font></p></blockquote><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Schedule @ 11 rue La Rochefoucauld </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">75009 Paris</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TUESDAY 1st Dec</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10am Coffee/refreshments</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10.30am start</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Philip Foster MA Nat.Sci. (author)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cutting ‘Carbon’ Kills<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/climate-1.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Philip’s talk</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Nils-Axel (‘Niklas’) Mörner</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Launching the</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Independent </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">Committee on Geoethics “When Science becomes disgraced, it’s </span><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">time for a new Independent Committee on Geoethics”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/nils-axel-moner.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Niklas’ talk</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://geoethic.com/" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; line-height: 1.5;">http://geoethic.com<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284508526When_Science_becomes_disgraced_it's_time_for_a_new_Independent_Committee_on_Geoethics" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full paper</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pm</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Viscount (Christopher) Monckton of Brenchley<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Climate of corruption: trahison des clercs by the classe politique</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/christopher-monckton.mp4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Christopher’s talk</a></span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Harris: International Climate Science Coalition<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Progressives should demand a reassessment of climate change concerns – Adherence to global warming dogma violating causes held dear by the left.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tom-harris.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Tom Harris’ talk</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.climatescienceinternational.org</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4.00 – 4.20 pm tea</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Piers Corbyn [Weatheraction: long range forecasting]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">New understanding of the Jet stream and solar activity<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/piers-corbyn-pcc-div-x.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Piers’ talk</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.weatheraction.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.weatheraction.com</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WEDNESDAY 2nd Dec</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10am Coffee; 10.30am start</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bob Carter: Former professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Factual constraints on the DAGW hypothesis<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/bob-carter.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Bob Carter’s talk</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donna Laframboise, internationally respected journalist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">Three Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.noconsensus.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.noconsensus.org</a>    <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.nofrakkingconsensus.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.nofrakkingconsensus.com</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pm</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Tattersall [tallbloke science blog]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The big orange missing variable in the climate debate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/roger-tattersall.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Roger’s talk<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/paris.pptx" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Powerpoint slides</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.tallbloke.wordpress.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.tallbloke.wordpress.com</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr Patrick Moore [Ex-Director of Greenpeace:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ocean “acidification” Alarmism in Perspective<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://www.fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full Paper</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4.00-4.20pm tea</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ed Flaherty -[Senior Partner, Juris Doctor; Schwab, Flaherty & Associates, Geneva, Fribourg, Istanbul, Singapore]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Law, governments, supra-national organisations and NGOs</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7.15pm Invitation from <span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Collectif des Climato-realists</span> at ALEPS premises, 35 av. MacMahon 75017 (Arc de Triomphe), 60 pax: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">multilingual welcome party for our foreign friends present in Paris</span>. RSVP to Marie-France Suivre: collectifdesclimatorealistes@gmail.com</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THURSDAY 3rd Dec</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10am Coffee</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10.30am start</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stuart Agnew MEP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Farmer’s Confession… there is no one </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">more zealous than the reformed sinner!</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Helmer MEP<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EU, energy and climate policy</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prof. Murry Salby –  lecture on the big screen<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Origins of rising CO<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: 0.5ex;">2<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://youtu.be/jZ0R1MCkSOU" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">http://youtu.be/jZ0R1MCkSOU</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pm</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nils-Axel (‘Niklas’) Mörner, [global sea level expert and paleoclimatologist]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The liberation from fear of a disastrous sea </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">level rise – observational facts don’t lie<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284508403_The_liberation_from_fear_of_a_disastrous_sea_level_riseobservational_facts_dont_lie" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full paper</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Prof Ian Plimer, [geologist and paleoclimate expert, University of Adelaide ]<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heaven & Hell; the Pope condemns the poor to eternal poverty<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://geoethic.com/2015/10/21/ian-plimer-comment-on-the-laudato-si-papal-encyclical/" style="font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full article</a></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4.00pm Tea</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; 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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Avoid the </span>ennui<span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> at Le Bourget COP21 – </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Listen to some real science and analysis</span></font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CONTACTS during Conference:</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Harris    +1 613 728 9200</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Philip Foster  +44 7931 592197</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Tattersall    +44 7803 598832</font></span></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—</font></p><p style="font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: 700; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">History<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has yet to acknowledge receipt of either the </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15.org/2007-bali-open-letter/" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">2007 Bali open letter</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, or the</span><b> 2009 Copenhagen Climate Challenge</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> (a postal trace was done on the latter after it was sent a second time and it was confirmed that Secretary General Moon did indeed receive the open letter</span></span><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">). </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">ICSC Executive Director Tom Harris</a><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> announced the Copenhagen Climate Challenge in a special two-day counter-conference held in Copenhagen a few kilometers from the main UNFCCC site. The following video shows his presentation of the Challenge: </span><a title="http://vimeo.com/8647229" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.web.archive.org/web/20110725200050/http://vimeo.com/8647229" target="blank" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>COP21’s Green Gibberish</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Paris climate summit is many things, including a cultural spectacle wrapped in lightweight media fluff.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The back cover of a commemorative edition of edition of Elle magazine, published in France.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The back cover of a commemorative edition of Elle magazine, published in France. Click to enlarge.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve been in Europe for a week. As one might expect following the November 13 Paris terrorist attacks, airports here are now patrolled by soldiers equipped with machine guns.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it’s the holiday season. Lights are twinkling, Christmas trees are being sold on sidewalks, and the shops are crowded. I flew to Paris not to report on COP21, the official climate conference, but to participate in a counter-conference that presented alternative points of view. The slogan for that event is a quote attributed to George Patton: If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the French media, COP21 is receiving the kind of attention associated with the Olympics or a film festival. Politicians have been extensively photographed, and pages upon pages of coverage have been devoted to the proceedings. Whether regular Parisians notice or care is another matter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I stayed at a lovely, three-star hotel in the 9th arrondisement for four nights and saw no indication that global warming was on the minds of the families and shopkeepers going about their lives in that neighbourhood. Paris, the world’s top tourist destination, is suffering financially as a result of the terrorist attacks. There has been a slew of cancellations, and new bookings are down dramatically. It will be a lean holiday season for some some.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speaking of media coverage, special editions of magazines have been published to commemorate COP21. The women’s magazine, Elle, has released a gorgeous edition that costs €10.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">click to enlarge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The front cover of a commemorative edition of Elle magazine, published in France. Click to enlarge.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate Pouliquen, Elle‘s editor-in-chief, obligingly ends her opening remarks by mentioning the COP21 start and end dates, plus the address of the French government’s website for this event. A few pages later, Melanie Laurent (an actress) interviews Sylvie Guillem (a ballet dancer). Described by the magazine as “an uninhibited conversation held against a backdrop of urgency and indignation,” the interview is published a second time in English toward the back.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People familiar with the <b>New Age Bullshit Generator</b> – in which a computer program strings together total nonsense that nevertheless sounds semi-profound – will find similar content in this edition 0f Elle. According to Guillem,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If as human beings we want to continue to stand on our two legs, we have to step on the brakes and shake up polite discussions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a magazine sponsored by Rolex, whose watches sell for tens of thousands a piece, Guillem denounces “senselessness and waste.” Moreover, she appears blissfully unaware of what the New York Times once called the magazine industry’s “dirty little secret” – that millions of copies are destroyed each and every month, unsold and unread. Guillem tells us that</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Consuming less means renouncing a certain degree of comfort. And that’s very hard in a world where politics say exactly the opposite…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to her, humanity is “in the process of massively destroying the planet” and “it’s tiresome to have to convince people that you’re only out to save their lives.” This woman is an archetype, a sublime representative of the highly-emotional, alarmingly misinformed environmental activist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Glacier experts can insist until they’re blue that there’s no scientific reason to believe glaciers are at risk of vanishing this century, that such an idea is preposterous.</b> But Guillem inhabits a different planet, and Elle gives her a platform to spout unmitigated rubbish. “It’s no longer a problem of environmental awareness,” she says, but</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a matter of survival…in 25 years there won’t be any more glaciers. In 50 years, no water or fish. That’s what we’ve succeeded in doing! We can’t wait any longer!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you dare, you can read the whole, incoherent mess here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another COP21 commemorative magazine was published by Air France, and is being tucked into the back of airline seats throughout the fleet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The entire issue may be flipped through online. A premier contender for the ‘Gibberish Posing as Wisdom’ award emanates from the pen of its own editor-in-chief, Aude Revier:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Embrace the earth, watch over its fragile splendour, tend to its melancholia and its joys; and then strive, little by little, to change the course of destiny. Cast aside our doubts. Transform ourselves, to transform our lives. And rethink the future to reinvent the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since this is a French-to-English translation, I suppose one should be charitable. But in a blind test, if presented with the above quote and these ones, produced by the New Age Bullshit Generator, could most people really tell the difference?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My Paris hotel, the Eden Opera, was a gem. The rooms are spacious and well-appointed. The wifi is excellent (and included in the room price). Staff members are helpful, friendly, and speak English. I recommend it highly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My airfare was paid for, in advance, by the counter-conference organizers. Accommodation, meals, and transportation costs in Paris – as well as here in London (where I’ve met with <b>fellow journalists Christopher Booker and Matt Ridley,</b> among others) – have been charged to my personal credit card.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Should you be in a position to<b> help defray these costs via a small donation</b>, my own holiday season will be somewhat merrier.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div>