I am very pleased to welcome you here in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic for an international scientific conference organised by the CLINTEL (Climate Intelligence) Foundation. Our conference follows on from previous ones held in Pribram-Prague (2015), London (2016) and Porto (2018). Unfortunately, there will be no further meetings during the pandemic, i.e. in 2020-2022.
The aim of CLINTEL is to provide unbiased and well-founded scientific information, especially to the public, governments and parliaments of European countries, as a counterweight to politically manipulated organisations, especially the IPCC. The conference venue in the House of Deputies is perfect for this purpose, because members of all political parties, the professional public, as well as students of natural sciences, engineering and social sciences can get true, well-founded, scientific information, so to speak, “first-hand”, i.e. from experts who have worked in the given fields for a very long time. As you will notice, most of the lecturing professors are already retired and have left their Alma Mater. They can therefore now say everything they have to say without being hounded, thrown out of their jobs or losing their grants, as is commonly the case with tenured scientists today. Of course, they also get out, but it is often more about extra work in their spare time.
Among the lecturers, some personalities such as Professor Nils-Axel Mörner or Professor Murry Salby, who left us a few years ago, are missing. However, the results of their work will be presented in two lectures by J.-E. Solheim and P. Kalenda (mine).
Our conference will be a purely professional conference, and since it will be aimed primarily at the audience in the Czech Republic and then at the audience around the world, the conference languages will be Czech together with English, so that in the individual expert blocks, speakers from the Czech Republic and the world will alternate in their lectures on similar or identical topics. Since many of the speakers are from far away (Australia, Canada, Chile, USA), the speakers will be linked online via the ZOOM conference platform with the whole world and the lectures will be projected on screens in the Chamber. At the same time, the entire conference will be streamed online to the world via YouTube channels. The videos of the individual lectures, taken at the conference, will be translated into a second language (from English into Czech and vice versa) so that they are understandable to non-experts in the Czech Republic and over the world.