The political narrative that humans are causing most or all climate change, and the claim that the scientific justification for this is settled, has been dealt a heavy blow with the publication of the World Climate Declaration (WCD), which has been signed by more than 1100 scientists and specialists. The authors, who include representatives from various countries around the world and are led by the Norwegian Nobel laureate in physics, Professor Ivar Giaever, explain that there is no climate emergency. In their view, climate science has devolved into a discussion based on beliefs or agendas rather than sound, self-critical scientific inquiry.

Given how difficult it is in academic circles to secure funding for climate research that deviates from political orthodoxy, 1100+ represents a significant scale of opposition in modern climate science. Another co-author of the declaration, Professor Richard Lindzen, has called the current climate narrative absurd, acknowledging that trillions of dollars and the relentless propaganda of grant-dependent academics and journalists currently signal that it should be taken seriously.

The WCD is particularly fierce in its opposition to climate models. To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model creators have put into it. Climate models have become the central element of modern climate discourse, and scientists consider this to be a problem. "We should free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models," states the WCD. "In the future, climate research must give significantly more weight to empirical science."
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