USA
Jerry Katell
Civil Engineer, business principal, leadership education, Member The Right Climate Stuff Research Team
To: John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate July 31, 2021 Dear Mr. Kerry, I graduated in the top 10% of my class with an S.B. in Civil Engineering and then third in my class at Stanford Business School where I earned an M.B.A. I know how to research a subject. I began studying global warming/climate change eighteen years ago and have read a great number of articles and continue to do both. I moderated a panel on this subject for the Chief Executives Organization at their bi-annual Global Leadership Conference nine years ago. I arranged for panel members Prof. Richard Lindzen, climatologist, from M.I.T. and James Hansen. About 4 days before the conference Hansen pulled out and embarrassed himself terribly by doing so - no deaths in the family or other problems, strictly because he knew that his unfounded, unscientific conclusions about manmade global warming would be met and destroyed by the true facts that would be presented by Prof. Lindzen. So, I ran the panel with Prof. Lindzen only and presented him with all the positions about global warming that were being presented in the media. We received a 9 out of 10 rating from the CEO audience. CEO is a graduate organization of the most active members of the worldwide Young Presidents Organization. I admire that the propaganda efforts have been amazingly successful by the mainstream media, schools at all levels and word of mouth to create the unfounded and proven erroneous assumption that CO2, the source of all life on earth, and a tiny percentage of the atmosphere, is a pollutant that plays a major role in climate change. The truth is that CO2 levels have been 10 and 20 times greater than today, and some of those have been hot periods and some cold. There is little or no correlation between these levels and climate change. The efforts today to dramatically reduce CO2 by eliminating the use of fossil fuels and replace it with undependable wind and solar power will not only massive hurt the economies of the countries that adopt these rules and will relegate the developing countries of the world to continuing poverty and the inability to utilize reasonably priced energy to move their economies forward. All for no good reason. Not to mention the need to mine special dangerous materials utilized in the production of solar panels and wind turbines. It is far behind time to bring out the true facts. One of the things that need to be explored is the possibility that due to changes in the generation of energy by the sun, the strongest determinant of climate on earth, that we may be entering into a cold period that would be far more deleterious to the people on earth than the type of extremely minor warming that has occurred in the last century and for which there is no evidence whatsoever that any significant warming will occur. In fact, recent winters have set cold and snow records around the world, rarely reported in the
mainstream media. Lastly, the headlong rush to electric powered cars needs to be analyzed carefully. It appears that the production, transportation, and storage of the electricity for the cars would not end up with any net benefit in CO2 production, a goal which, in any event, will do nothing to change the climate. Before we spend trillions of dollars we don't have in this quest, the true facts must be presented, using real science and actual climate facts, to make the proper decisions on how we will produce economical energy for all the inhabitants of the world. Jerry Katell