16th International EIKE Conference on Climate and Energy
in Cooperation with CFACT and The Heartland Institute
Vienna 14 – 15 June 2024
The exact location will be announced at a later stage
Friday, June 14
9:00 h Registration
10:00 h Welcome and introduction
Dr. Holger Thuß
President, Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie (EIKE)
10:15 h How climate policy affects the weakest members of society
Craig Rucker
Executive Director, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
11:00 h What climate alarmists don’t tell you
James Taylor
President, The Heartland Institute
11:30 h The truth about ‘decarbonization‘ – Who really benefits from ‘saving the climate’
Marc Morano
Publisher of ClimateDepot, Author
12:15 h Experimental falsification of the “climate CO2 experiments” and CO2 sensitivity field measurements by ICR (Independent Climate Research)
Dr. Martin J.F. Steiner
MSc Sprecher ICR, Energie - Klima - Umwelt
13:00 h – 14:30 h Joint lunch
14:30 h Do we have to win the climate wars in court?
A response to activist climate litigation
Marcel Crok
Science journalist and co-founder of CLINTEL
15:15 h The ‘art’ of calculating the total solar irradiation (TSI) since 1700
Dr. Willie Soon
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
16:00 h Empirical assessment of the role of the Sun in climate change
using balanced multi-proxy solar records
Prof. Dr. Nicola Scafetta
Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
16:45 h – 17:15 h Break
17:15 h How science helped to invent the climate crisis
Dr. John F. Clauser
Experimental physicist
18:00 h How much? What is how much?
On the necessity of quantitative studies in climate and energy science
Prof. Dr. László Csaba Szarka
Geophysicist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
19:00 h Joint Dinner
Saturday, June 15
9:00 h Climate propaganda in Austria - We hold against it
Legal proceedings, alternative media, politics, education of the population
Dr. Bernhard Strehl
Physicist and Entrepreneur
9:45 h Full speed ahead on the reef with the energy transition ship of fools
Manfred Haferburg
Nuclear energeticist and publicist, former shift supervisor at Greifswald NPP
10:45 h – 11:15 h Break
11:15 h Impacts and risks of ‘realistic’ global warming projections for the 21st century
Prof. Dr. Nicola Scafetta
Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
12:00 h Radiation transfer in clouds
Prof. Dr. William Happer
Department of Physics, Princeton University
13:00 h – 14:30 h Joint lunch
14:30 h Quantifying the role that the sun has had in climate change. Why do with think it is cosmic rays, and what does it imply?
Prof. Dr. Nir Shaviv
Racah Institute of Physics - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Understanding the cosmic ray climate link using experimental and empirical evidence
Prof. Dr. Henrik Svensmark
Centre for Sun-Climate Research des Danish National Space Centre
16:15 h – 16:45 h Break
16:45 h How extreme is the global average temperature developing?
Dr. Roy Spencer (via Zoom)
Head of research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and leader of the US scientific team for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
17:30 h Electricity costs and CO2 emissions in the presence of renewables -
How renewables hinder CO2 emissions reduction and increase the cost of electricity
Douglas Pollock, Industrial Civil Engineer, University of Chile
18:15 h The attempt by the climate alarmists to avoid simple benefit/cost analysis
Dr. Benjamin Zycher
Economist and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
19:00 h Closing remarks
Wolfgang Müller
General Secretary, Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie (EIKE)
followed by the Reception (19:05 h)
We reserve the right to change the program at short notice.
The conference will be interpreted simultaneously: English-German and German-English.
