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
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(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
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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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