​HerE, we are going to share Some selected texts/PPTs/Videos ​


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5 de Maio de 2021: Palestra na Associação Bento de Jesus Caraça:

Assuncão Araújo
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https://www.facebook.com/1144047477/videos/10224697918172379/


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Here is one of the last pictures I have from

Professor Mörner.


It was taken at Berlenga island


(central Portugal), the 19 September 2019.



Unfortunately, Nils-Axel Mörner passed

away 16 October 2020.


This photo is my last homage to one of the

persons with which I learned more in my

entire life.

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His lessons will be unforgettable: here you

​have the last ones I could get.

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Evidence-based sea level changes versus

​Scaremongering violating science and ethics


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​. A new article summarizing the interview of Nils-Axel-Mörner
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​. Activists Admit They’re Failing To Scare The Public About Climate Change. Here’s Why: Climate change Dispatch

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​​. The coming cooling: Usefully accurate climate forecasting for policy makers: Norman J. Page
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​. Premissas falsas=más políticas relativamente ao clima. Crítica ao relatório SR15 do IPCC
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​. Faulty Premises = Poor Public Policy on Climate: ​rebuttal report to the IPCC SR15
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​. The impacts of Climate Change, Prof. Philip Lloyd 
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​. International Conference on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Food Security: Albrecht Glatzle
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​. Global warming for the two cultures: Richard Lindzen

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​. On Some Pseudo-Religious Connotations of the Climate Issue: Claus Rieth
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​. Climat Environnement & Énergie: le site des climato-réalistes
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​. A very nice synthesis of the conference: Claus Rieth

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Global Green Airbag versus Global Greenhouse

The Porto Climate Conference – It’s all natural

Basic Science of a Changing Climate – the topic of the Conference that took place at Porto University in Porto, Portugal on Sept. 07. – 09. 2018.
Attended by leading scientists in many domains, experts of engineering and critical thinkers of meteorology, oceanography, mathematics, geophysics, geology, chemistry and geography they confronted a very competent audience of about 80 people all over the globe from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, US, GB, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Portugal.
The primary focus of the conference was on basic climate science, nevertheless along the proceeding of the topics questions of communication to the public audience arose.
Opened by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts ans Humanities (Faculdade de Letras), from Porto University, there was a broad consensus that freedom of research is the absolute necessary basis for the progress of science.

The speeches and discussions concentrated on four aspects:
1. Changes in Climate and Weather
2. CO2, Climate Sensitivity and Greenhouse Effects
3. Forcing Functions in Climate Change
4. Observational Facts, Interpretations and Geoethics.

Nils Alex Mörner, former head of Paleophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University moderated the course of the conference that was hosted by the Faculty of Letters and represented by Maria Assunção Araújo of the Department of Geography and member of the Portuguese Sea Level Project together with Pamela Matlack-Klein. Eventually some demonstrators turned up to protest against this conference without even trying to talk to the audience.
Drivers and fare dodgers
Unanimously all the assembled scientist put the human-emitted CO2 on the back seat of the climate-mobile. NO one supported in any way the “hysteria” in media and politics to reduce this assumed “threat” propelled by IPCC political papers and lobbies behind dominant media releases. Considering the quantity of water vapor in atmosphere which is the most dominant “greenhouse” player on earth with about 20% of the present gases, CO2 - representing roughly only 7% - is 94% of natural origin and only 6% out of anthropogenic (Veyre) – “anthropo(n)” meaning “human” and “genic” meaning origin. Consumption of fossil energy and other consumptions contribute only 18 ppm (parts per million) of 410 ppm of all CO2 in the atmosphere (from sea level up to 24000 feet) or 1 out of 2500 particles of the atmosphere!
The main driver of atmospheric gases is water vapor, and CO2 of human consumption is negligible, thus the consensus (Gervais, Harde). Same observations and conclusions for the already passed so-called “greenhouse gases” like ozone and FCKW.

Global Green Airbag

Compared to Venus and Saturn the Earth luckily developed a so-to-say “airbag” or “Global green belt” as security features for our life. Water vapor and CO2 have minimum three very beneficial properties: they protect the earth from cooling – otherwise temperatures on earth would drop to a unlivable around minus 20 degrees Celsius. They act as a thermal cushion. Second, they protect our life and that of the plants and animals from solar and cosmic over-radiation like polaroid sunglasses. Third, they assure proper growing of all the green plant life on earth. Without CO2 no photosynthesis, no growth of plants below 150 ppm (Veyre, Gervais, Harde)! Global greening progressed thanks to CO2 – more growing of veggies and fruit and cereals and algae for an ever-growing population on earth that will soon arrive at
10 billion people. Without this Global Green Belt there will soon be more hunger and more starving instead.
Thanks to the Oceans
Oceans not only define the face of the earth from outer space as “blue planet”, as all astronauts observe full of emotions. Oceans are the heat tank with an enormous capacity – 2,7m water below surface contains the same energy as the air column of 8000m over it. Oceans produce 50% of the oxygen by the algae they contain, as an ad in the streets of Porto tells. And Oceans absorb 70% of the CO2 and stock it, transport it into the deep blue and there it is transformed into Calciumcarbonate and other carbonates and sinks to the ground as sediments. CO2 is also stocked in the waters as gas. Oceans contain 50 times the quantity of all naturally and in minor quantity humanly emitted CO2. Their role is still very much underestimated as there are only few measuring points and the quantity of them is tiniest compared to the surface of the oceans.
Deep cold water-currents move slowly from the north to the south pole. This thermo-haline (“thermo” means “dependent on temperature, “haline” from “hals (gr.)” for salt (concentration) circulation takes about 140 years (!) and is one of the major drivers of climate besides water vapor and the sun (Mörner, Corbyn). The Ocean blues goes on – slowly and surely as its musical sister.

Moon, Sun and Stars

Everybody knows the tides controlled by the moon. At least also all main-landers that passed vacations at the coast of the ocean. Water level changes by influence of the gravity of the mass of the moon, more precisely said. But in space there is also the sun and the planets and their moons and the far-away stars. Mass effects add to another like the more people are in a bus the longer the distance to accelerate or to slow it down. Like this also the planets: if they are all in a line this makes the earth bump and slow or accelerate. (Tattersall, Zeller) Same the sun: the more energy it sends by magnetic and light radiation, and energy is mass by speed to the square as Einstein told us the more the rotation of the earth speeds up. And like in a merry-go-round the seats fly higher and more distant to the center with more speed – water rises at the equator the faster the planet turns. Follows the effect that as the amount of water is fix in the oceans the sea level is rising in the equatorial zone and decreasing in the higher latitudes. And the same when solar activity is low then sea levels rise in northern and southern high latitudes near the poles and water level decreases in a medium range of time in the equatorial zone. (Wysmuller, Mörner, Corbyn, Assunçao) Sea-level change comes and goes like the tide.
Suntan desperately needed
Like anybody is getting cold at night when sun is down and sky is clear – the same the earth. Without the sun radiation earth would freeze down to the temperature of Mars, nobody would like to live there. As the earth is a net-receiver it depends on the sun as net-donor. When sun gives much, earth is getting warmer than usual – a warm period, when sun is avaricious, earth temperature goes down and we can do ice-scating on rivers and lakes like in the 15th century in London, Amsterdam and Rome! This was the last little ice age. (Solheim, Yndestadt, Scafetta). The sun radiation is the prior clock of the climate, the highs and lows of the radiation – observed also by the number and length of the sunspot-number per
period) makes the difference of our terrestrial sages. The sun activity is the main direct climate driver – the Mayas and Incas knew well!

Complexity, Chaos and Climate

In 16th century people burnt witches as a drought devastated Europe and emptied wells and Lakes like the Lake of Constance -as reported from Wittenberg 1540 where Martin Luther probably assisted. People do not like weather chaos, climate chaos, they want it orderly and cyclically like everything else. And if it comes worse, they want to “do” something instead of waiting for heaven or hell. Either someone has to “pay” or “confess” or “burn”. And people like it simple and hate complicated matters, in politics as in a lot of other dimensions like education, alimentation, relationships, work and fun. Nobody likes fatality today without a chance to turn it around, be it cancer or Parkinson. (Rieth) This is the time for “healers” and “quacks” and gurus. Climate is a complex affair – like a love affair sometimes – and we like it simple. We seek simple recipes for tricky matters. Who falls in love for maths and quants? And nonetheless this is the only way to tell the real story (Essex, Gervais, Rittaud, Monckton). Simple suggestions like take this and avoid this – like methane and CO2, avoid to eat meat and go vegan(so opposed to by Glatzle), stop inhaling, pay compensation for flying to Bali, confess your energy consumption, … is like a part of the simple messages of some guru-trip with the buddy driving a Rolls and people worshipping like mad for “his Highness”.
Porto Conference was about that – finding a sober and evidence-based message for a complex climate issue. Honest scientific research meeting blunt degradation in a time where middle-age thought-climate seems to regain power on enlightenment driven research. Gut versus head, fear versus sovereignty, panic versus coolness. The message of the second Porto Climate Conference – after the Obama decorated in June – is: Keep cool, no fear. Climate is fine, no need to save it and no means to do it either. Maybe it’s even getting cooler, the history of the sun-cycles may tell it.

Enjoy life in the Global Green Airbag!


Claus U. Rieth
MBA, M.Div., phil.bot.
Director CRConsult, Rev.
Mulhouse France
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This has been the most ferocious atack we have suffered, among many others.
From our colleagues from different universities - Some of the people are known and important in Portuguese cultural environment.
The inquisition is not so far away as we might expect!

We think it is the main cause of some retard we still have... and of the 48 years of Salazar  dictatorship....

             
Open Letter to the Rector of the University of Porto
(translated by Google translator)

The University of Porto must scrutinize the events it organizes and promote knowledge based on in Science.
As announced on the website of the University of Porto and reported in the press, September 7 and 8 at the Faculty of Arts of entitled "Basic science of a changing climate: how processes in the sun, atmosphere and ocean affect weather and climate ".
Under the cover of this interesting title that suggests a scientific field recognized, this conference is ultimately organized by a well-known climate change, the so-called "Independent Committee on Geoethics", and will gather Denialists from various countries, and is presided over by Maria Assunção Araújo, of that faculty. In her own words for the press Maria Assunção Araújo is explicit: "I do not care to listen to people that considers that the only cause of climate change is CO2."
The term 'climate change' now has different meanings.
While not ignoring large temporal scale it has its own meanings, it is not possible today to deny the consensus the scientific community that the current climate change to watch, are caused by actions with human origin. It is a scientific consensus that areas of expertise, and encompasses scientists from all continents. There is a unambiguous of the planet, not just simulated or predicted but measured. The emission of gases with greenhouse effect, the most relevant of which is carbon dioxide, is main reason for this warming and comes mainly from the use of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), but also from other sources such as deforestation and
agriculture. This assertion was made clear in the last IPCC report (Panel Intergovernmental Organization for Climate Change).
1. Global warming is changing all kinds of climates, with varied and burdensome effects in all ecosystems of the planet and impacts on virtually all human organizations as we know them today. To this set of changes was agreed to be called climate change. International Organizations such as the IPCC, which integrates 195 countries as members and counts on the collaboration of thousands of scientists around the world, have warned of the urgency of adopting measures to combat global warming, and it is extremely important to raise awareness and mobilize all sectors of society.
The signatories of this open letter, scientists and workers in Science, come to express their protest against the fact that the University of Porto, preside, to hold a disinformation conference, giving credibility to political ideas aimed at if it can achieve the climatic stabilization of the planet during this century. These ideas scientifically unfounded - to which the name of negacionismo is given -, instead of clarifying and awareness of climate change, are no more than foundation or scientific method. We are not oblivious to the tactics often used by this denialist organizations, which use the space of democracy to try to polarize the society and gain media space, creating an artificial and wrong polemic, invoking censorship and victimizing themselves in the process. We are also not surprised that this event coincides with the date of the World March of the Climate, to be held next September 8, in which demonstrations will take to the streets all over the world, and in Portugal as well, to demand concrete action to the last decades in terms of extreme weather events and warming of the planet.
Being a public university and one of the largest producers of Science in Portugal, the University of Porto is required to scrutinize the events it hosts. This institution, for the responsibility to disseminate informed knowledge, should not lend the name and give credibility to the denial of Science and Knowledge, but rather to promote knowledgeclimate change, following good international scientific practice.


Subscribers
1.     Adélio Mendes, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto
2.     Alda de Sousa, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto
3.     Alexandra Monteiro, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Universidade de Aveiro
4.     Ana Monteiro, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto
5.     Ana Pinheiro, CIBIO, Universidade do Porto
6.     Anabela Carvalho, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho
7.     António Piedade, comunicador de ciência
8.     António Gomes da Costa, Associação Portuguesa de Comunicação de Ciência (SciComPT)
9.     Bruno Pinto, Centro de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, Universidade de Lisboa
10.  Carla  Amado  Gomes,  Faculdade  de   Direito,   Universidade   de   Lisboa
11.  Carlos Borrego, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Universidade de Aveiro
12.  Carlos Fiolhais, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra
13.  Carlos Sousa Reis, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
14.  Catarina Pereira, Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa (COMCEPT)
15.  David Marçal, Agência Ciência Viva
16.  Diana Barbosa, COMCEPT
17.  Eduardo Ferreira, Universidade de Aveiro
18.  Fernando Lima, CIBIO, Universidade do Porto
19.  Filipe Duarte Santos, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
20.  Francisco Ferreira, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
21.  Gil Penha-Lopes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
22.  Helena Freitas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra
23.  Helena Martins, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
24.Inês Farias, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
25.  Isabel Ribeiro, Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Ambientais, Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona Ivone Fachada, SciComPT
26.  Joana Lobo Antunes, SciComPT
27.  Joana Lourenço, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Universidade de Aveiro
28.  João Camargo, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
29. João Monteiro, Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Universidade de Lisboa e Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
30. João Peças Lopes, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto
31.  Joaquim Sande Silva, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
32.  Jorge Paiva, Centro de Ecologia Funcional do Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Coimbra
33.  José da Silva, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
34.  José Manuel Mendonça, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto
35.  José Pissarra, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
36.  José Saldanha Matos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
37.  José Vítor Malheiros, SciComPT e consultor
38.  Júlia Seixas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
39.  Leonor Abrantes, COMCEPT
40.  Luís Carvalho Pereira, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
41.  Luís Ribeiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
42.  Luísa Schmidt, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
43.  Manuel Carlos Silva, Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho
44.  Manuel Sobrinho-Simões, IPATIMUP
45.Margarida Robaina, Departamento de Economia, Gestão, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Universidade de Aveiro
46.  Maria Eduarda Gonçalves, ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
47.  Maria Isabel Amorim, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
48.  Maria João Santos, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
49.  Marta Daniela Santos, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa Nuno Fragoso Lopes, COMCEPT
50.  Nuno Ferrand de Almeida, CIBIO, Universidade do Porto
51.  Paula Tamagnini, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
52.  Paulo Talhadas Santos, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
53.  Pedro Bingre do Amaral, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Pedro Esteves, CIBIO, Universidade do Porto
54.  Pedro Macedo, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
55.  Pedro Matos Soares, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
56.  Pedro Nunes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
57.  Pedro Prista, ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
58.  Pedro Russo, Department of Science Communication and Society, Universidade de Leiden
59. Rodrigo Proença de Oliveira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
60.  Rui Cortes, Centro de Investigação e Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas, Universidade de Trás-os- Montes e Alto Douro
61.  Sílvia Castro, SciComPT
62.  Susana Freitas, Departamento de Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade de Lausanne
63.  Susana Pereira, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
64.  Teresa Lago, Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
65.  Victor Vasconcelos, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
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