{"id":139625,"date":"2024-01-02T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139625"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:09:06","slug":"climate-realists-un-talk-postponed-indefinitely-despite-past-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/climate-realists-un-talk-postponed-indefinitely-despite-past-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate realist’s UN talk \u2018postponed indefinitely\u2019 despite past promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018I suspect that people don’t like being told and or having it said that they have made trillion-dollar errors, which is effectively what I\u2019m saying\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The International Monetary Fund has not followed through on its promise to reschedule an event featuring a physicist critical of its positions on climate change.<\/p>\n

It appears now the talk is officially \u201cdead\u201d according to the canceled climate change skeptic.<\/p>\n

Nobel prize-winning scientist John Clauser was originally scheduled<\/a> to speak on July 25 via virtual meeting on the predictions of the United Nations\u2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IMF, a UN agency, \u201cpostponed\u201d the event and said it would instead host a panel discussion with Clauser after the summer.<\/p>\n

An official with the IMF contacted media outlets, including The College Fix<\/em>, to ask them to clarify the event had not been canceled. That official did not respond to requests for comment sent in the past several months.<\/p>\n

Clauser (pictured<\/em>) won his Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 for his 1972 experiments on the \u201centanglement\u201d of quantum particles, which helped \u201cpave the way for quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum encrypted communication,\u201d according to the Nobel Prize website<\/a>. He won<\/a> three other prizes in 2011, 2010, and 1982 for quantum physics research.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we have not been able to reorganize it, and, at this stage, the seminar has been postponed indefinitely,\u201d the IMF\u2019s Independent Evaluation Office informed The Fix<\/em> in a December 18 email.<\/p>\n

It is not because of Clauser, however.<\/p>\n

Clauser was initially told the panel would involve a debate but doesn\u2019t expect to be invited back, he said in a phone interview with The Fix<\/em>. \u201cAs far as I know, that\u2019s all dead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The IPCC believes the world must eliminate 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 to prevent a projected rise in global temperatures, as noted in a flier<\/a> for the proposed July talk. The panel currently has 195 member nations<\/a>, including<\/a> the United States.<\/p>\n

Clauser planned to \u201cexplain why the science on global warming is far from settled and argue that extreme caution may be warranted\u201d regarding the IPCC\u2019s analysis, according to the flier. The Nobel laureate has frequently criticized claims that carbon emissions threaten humanity and what he sees as politicized scientific institutions. He also developed his own climate model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nicoletta Batini, the former IMF employee who invited Clauser, told\u00a0The Fix<\/em>\u00a0she hoped to promote diversity of thought as part of her watchdog position as lead evaluator at the IEO.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI coordinated a seminar series where I liked to feature experts with a variety of views,\u201d Batini said in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can verify this by looking at the other seminars I managed to stage. Dr. Clauser seemed to me a good choice in that spirit,\u201d Batini said. \u201cI could not however arrange a discussant \u2013 although I [do] not always have discussants \u2013 and in this particular case[,] the director of the IEO preferred to rearrange as a panel but this turned out to be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Batini and the IEO declined to answer why it was impossible to host Clauser. The physicist thinks he knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IMF essentially has to set up policies involving trillions of dollars and these are all based on the assumption that the IPCC predictions are correct,\u201d Clauser told The College Fix<\/em>. \u201cI suspect that people don’t like being told and or having it said that they have made trillion-dollar errors, which is effectively what I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The flier for Clauser\u2019s IMF speech event noted that he would scrutinize \u201coversimplified views of the Earth\u2019s climate system like the IPCC\u2019s\u201d and \u201ccalibrating economic risks based on the scientifically-question assertion that extreme weather events have intensified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clauser suspects his speech at Quantum Korea 2023 in Seoul, South Korea in June was a factor in the cancellation. He described his remarks as an \u201cinspiration talk to young scientists\u201d to help them \u201cbe good scientific fact-checkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” he said<\/a> at the quantum technology event. “The world we live in today is filled with misinformation. It is up to each of you to serve as judges, distinguishing truth from falsehood based on accurate observations of phenomena.”<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> ‘Diversity of thought’ event lacked conservative views<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGE: JohnClauser.com<\/p>\n

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