ICSF commenced its ongoing lecture series by distinguished international scientists in 2017, which have attracted wide and diverse invited audiences.
Those with open and enquiring minds on climate science are welcome to apply to attend future lectures at jim.obrien.csr@gmail.com
Date:
April 1, 2026
LECTURER: Dr Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley is a noted British science writer, journalist and businessman. Qualifying with a DPhil in Zoology from Oxford University, he has achieved many distinguished career roles in business and journalism. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books have sold over a million copies, now translated into 31 languages. This lecture is based on his recent leader in the “Spectator” magazine, where he declared that “the global warming craze is dying out.” He also notes that Bill Gates’ recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise”. But the climatastrophe has diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, frightened young people, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. He concludes with fascinating suggestions as to how we now undo that damage and move forward to achieve a truly sustainable future.
TITLE:
"The great Climate Climb-Down is finally here – How can we undo the Damage Caused?"
Date:
February 27, 2026
LECTURER: Dr Javier Vinós
Dr Javier Vinós first enjoyed a distinguished research career in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, leaving academic research for the private sector 15 years ago, since then has been meticulously researching climate science. He has written two climate books “Climate of the Past, Present and Future” and “Solving the Climate Puzzle” and now chairs the Madrid-based climate realist group “Asociación de Realistas Climáticos (ARC)”. In this lecture he clinically the massive 2022 Honga Tonga in terms the multitude of atmospheric and oceanic anomalies of 2023-24, demonstrating this to be the first real climate event in 80 years. The media and scientists have remained silent on this unexplained cooling, as IPCC models could not explain it; he has all the answers.
TITLE:
“The 2022 Hunga Tonga Subsea Eruption – What Effect did it have on Climate?”
LECTURER: Dr Steven Koonin
Dr Koonin is Edward Teller Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and was Under-Secretary for Science in the US Department of Energy in the Obama Administration. He is author of the best-seller “Unsettled? What Climate Science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters”, which advocates climate realism. In recent high-profile interviews, he has argued that the "climate change Armageddon narrative" is starting to unravel as people increasingly question the claims of an existential crisis, instead urging a return to realism. In this key lecture, he first addresses “scientific realism” - the nature and magnitude of the alleged threat from anthropogenic climate change - and then “energy realism” – where the costs and disruption of a rapid energy transition are impacting people’s lives quite visibly and immediately. His conclusions are astounding.
TITLE:
“With climate realism ascendant, what now?”