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Notes for Clintel

English Pages, 2. 12. 2025

Ladies and Gentlemen,           

Let me start by saying – with all my respect and recognition – that I am extremely honored to be selected as the new President of Clintel. To accept this role after the Clintel Founder, Prof. Berkhout, is both difficult and binding for me. There is no way to thank Prof. Berkhout for his work and achievements sufficiently. We do owe him a lot. 

He founded this initiative at the right moment, when the ambitious, evidently destructive, scientifically unsupported global-warming doctrine seemed to stand almost unchallenged and unopposed, when politicians, the major media, and arrogant green activists looked like the justified and authorized owners of eternal truth and of practically all important institutions in the current world. 

It was a time when the strength and power of this one-sided propaganda successfully indoctrinating practically all generations, all social groupings, all countries in the developed world seemed unstoppable. When distinguished opponents of this nihilistic doctrine, who had been trying for years and decades to oppose it, became tired and some of them, due to age, ceased to be active in their public presentations. When some of them were repeatedly attacked personally, and their undisputed academic careers and achievements were caricatured and discredited. When the green activists seemed to be undefeatable. 

In that situation, in 2019, Prof. Berkhout, a distinguished Dutch physicist came with the idea of Clintel, prepared and published its Declaration, invited similarly thinking scientists to sign it, and started the inevitable organizational work. Many well-known opponents of the official doctrine of men-made global warming signed the declaration. I have to repeat my and our gratitude to Prof. Berkhout for all of this. 

I was among the first to sign the Declaration. I have been engaged in the climate debate already for at least two decades. I already belong to the veterans of this debate. I have written dozens of articles, made speeches all over the world (on all continents) and published three books on this topic. One of them has been translated into 18 languages. I am convinced that it is our duty to oppose the irrational, populist, and evidently  non-scientific  climate alarmism. The general public should be informed that the hypothesis that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming has not been scientifically proven. I also wanted to help. 

I was and am fully aware of the fact that we are not on the winning side. We should admit that. We have to search for new ways to make a change – each of us individually and all of us together. We should overcome the widespread feeling of loneliness that some of our friends and supporters experience these days. Not everyone is robust enough, not everyone is sufficiently self-assured to be alone with his or her views and to be able to stand by them. That’s one of the reasons for Clintel. 

We plan to expand our activities both in individual countries and on the global level. We plan to be more active in public debates. We plan to find new supporters. In this respect, we don’t intend to centralize our activities. We will give independence to national groupings and initiatives, and we will welcome their activity. 

We will keep our secretariat in the Netherlands, where it all started. I would like to thank Director of Clintel, Marcel Crok, for his relentless work. I hope he will continue. I will try to do my best to use my experience and knowledge to make Clintel more efficient. And I look forward to our cooperation. 

Václav Klaus, Press Club Brussels Europe, Brussels, December 4, 2025