© Clintel Foundation/Saturday 28 December 2024
2024 annual overview: breakthrough for Clintel
The year 2024 was quite successful for Clintel. Especially in The Netherlands we gained momentum. The premiere of Climate: The Movie attracted 600 people (see picture above), which was - to use a favorite IPCC term - unprecedented.
Tom Nelson and Martin Durkin asked us to take over their movie website climatethemovie.net to further promote the movie around the world. With the help of our international network we arranged subtitles in around 30 languages and there are now even spoken versions of the movie in German and Spanish. We organised a German premiere in Hamburg in September and who knows can we organise a Spanish premiere in 20205.
Frozen IPCC
Our book The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC has been translated this year into Dutch, German and Danish. These books can be bought in the Clintel webshop. The Danish version can be bought directly in Danmark.
Andy May and Marcel Crok used some of the main conclusions of the book in a peer reviewed paper, published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. The title of the paper is: "Carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems". The paper is causing quite a stir. Please follow the blog of Andy May to read all the responses to the paper and our replies.
Events
Clintel organised lots of events in The Netherlands. Most events were national, but in June we also organised our five year anniversary conference with some excellent international speakers such as Willie Soon, Gregory Wrightstone and Jacob Nordangård. All these talks are available on the Clintel Youtube channel.
Marcel Crok, director of Clintel, spoke at several international events, in Vienna (EIKE Conference), Budapest, Gothenburg and Prague. The event in Prague was very special and organised by Clintel Czechia. Clintel also organised a workshop in Athens. Many of the talks given in Athens and Prague will be online in the near future.
Wind turbines
Clintel published a large report (in Dutch) about the mostly negative effects of wind turbines on people and the environment. The report is titled The Windmill Tragedy and the first copy was received by Henk Vermeer, member of Parliament for the farmers party BBB, which is in the government. Two political parties in the government are openly critical about the net zero agenda, BBB and the biggest party in Parliament right now, the PVV of Geert Wilders. The times are changing.
Benny Peiser
Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation for the last 15 years, gave a talk for the Clintel Foundation in The Netherlands in late November. Peiser gave examples from around Europe showing how the Net Zero agenda is crumbling down. He also talks about international climate policy after the Trump election. And who is going to pay for the promised 300 billion a year at the COP29 in Baku?
This is a must see talk. As Benny said to me: “This is the first time in all those years that people start listening to us. ” Is the Net Zero agenda really nearing its end?
The talk can be watched on the Clintel Youtube channel.
Plans for 2025
Clintel has very ambitious plans for 2025. The Global Warming Policy Foundation is quite successful with their website netzerowatch.com, showing the costs of mainly the UK net zero agenda. We plan to copy this initiative for Europe at a new - still to build - website greendealwatch.com. For this website we are going to make lots of analyses of the EU net zero agenda and everything related to it. For that we need lots of experts from all over Europe. Please contact us at office@clintel.org if you think you can contribute (as a volunteer or as a paid freelancer) to this ambitious new Clintel project.
In the meantime we keep making content for both the clintel.org and the clintel.nl website, which btw we plan to combine in one corporate website clintel.org.
We are ready for another challenging but also exciting year. We keep striving for an open society in which dialogues are possible about important issues such as climate change and energy security.
We wish you a happy and healthy 2025
Guus Berkhout, president of Clintel
Marcel Crok, director of Clintel
In
Memoriam Eduard Harinck
● On 21 December we received the sad news about the passing of Eduard Harinck. We received dozens of emails from around the world sending their condolences. Eduard was more famous abroad than in The Netherlands. He was literally the spider in the Clintel web. On a daily basis he would receive dozens of emails with news from around the world which he then passed on to selected people in his large database. The picture above was sent to us by Case Smit from Australia who visited Eduard in his house in 2022. Case wrote:
● "Yes, Eduard’s passing is a sad and significant loss.
● Thought you might like this photo that I took in 2022 of Eduard in his typical activity. (No, that bird is not sitting on his head)."
Willie Soon sent us the picture of him and Eduard during the Clintel conference in June. Eduard, as always, was dressed as a real gentleman. Below some other reactions we received:
Eduard has been tiresome in sharing all the latest news on climate science and fiascos pulled by various alarmists and groups.
Willie Soon
Please allow me to extend my deepest condolence Eduard's family. I will always remember him as a kind-hearted person, always ready to commit himself to bringing out the truth, and ready to wo tirelessly to achieve it. It's a great loss for us too. his family be proud of him and of what he tireless did.
Patrice Poyet
Very sad to read about Eduard. Never met him, from his e-mails he seemed very youthful and ful energy - got the impression he was a newly eager enthusiastic Phd graduate. will miss my inbox receiving messages from him was brilliant at keeping us together and smoothin and cooling heated debates.
Robert
I join so very many others around the world who deeply saddened by Eduard’s passing. I never met Eduard but by virtue of my dozens of communications from, to, and through him, he is friend, and a very meaningful one at that. Eduard will be greatly missed by people on all the continents. Rest in peace, my friend.
Russ Babcock
We all agree that it will be impossible to find someone who can succeed Eduard in his task of coordinating the international news distribution Clintel. If there is someone who wants to give it a please contact us at office@clintel.org.
We will all miss him.
Guus Berkhout
Marcel Crok