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Climate Change Conference Begins Sunday
AmSpecBlog readers by now should have noticed the frequent advertisements for the Heartland Institute’sFourth International Conference on Climate Change, which begins Sunday evening and runs through Tuesday afternoon.
AmSpecBlog readers by now should have noticed the frequent advertisements for the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, which begins Sunday evening and runs through Tuesday afternoon. Yes, it is heavy on the skeptics (we prefer the term “realists;” you can call the alarmists “modelers”), and my colleague Dan Miller explains why:
James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the sponsoring Heartland Institute and the person who recruited all of the 70-plus presenters at the May 16-18 conference, says many people — Heartland supporters and detractors — have asked why no “warmists” are on the agenda.
In fact, said Taylor, among his first invitations to speak went to those who dispute the predominant views of the global warming skeptics.
“I personally and cordially invited literally dozens of high-profile scientists who disagree with our speakers, including Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Phil Jones, William Schlesinger, and many others,” Taylor said. “I planned to give each side equal time at the conference. Regrettably — and predictably — only two ‘warmists’ accepted my invitation to participate: Scott Denning of Colorado State University and Tam Hunt, a consultant on renewable energy and a lecturer at UC Santa Barbara’s School of Environmental Science & Management.”
All others declined, nearly all of them cordially.
We’ll just leave it to the imagination as to who didn’t decline cordially. Meanwhile, if you are interested in catching any of the keynote speeches (which will be delivered by astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Climate Audit’s Steve McIntyre (the Hockey Stick breaker), Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels, former Virginia Gov. George Allen, MIT’s Richard Lindzen, Heartland’s Jay Lehr, EIB climatologist Roy Spencer, and former Margaret Thatcher adviser Lord Christopher Monckton), PJTV will Webcast them live, in addition to doing interviews with many other attendees.
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Pingback| 5.14.10 @ 4:11PM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Climate Change Conferen links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Marc Jeric| 5.14.10 @ 7:09PM
1) There was first in the 1970's the global cooling scam (see e.g. Newsweek April 28 1975 on the Internet); the government-paid scientists (90% of them are rejects of private enterprise) recommended to fight the new ice age by sending our war planes to cover the polar ice with soot in order to increase solar heat and so prevent crushing of New York skyscrapers by the new glaciers;
2) When that did not work we had the global warming hoax in the 1990's, proclaimed by mainly the same government-paid scientists (Dr. Hansen of the NOAA, for example); to prevent the massive heating, fires, flooding of coastal cities, disappearance of Florida, California, and Caribbean islands, massive hurricanes, global famine, and other catastrophic events we should nationalize oil and gas and coal and electricity companies;
3) after 11 years of considerable cooling we are now faced with the climate change flimflam where whatever happens with our climate we should nationalize oil and gas and coal and electricity companies; and why not our banks, car and insurance companies while we are at it. To prevent this catastrophe the best vehicle presumably is international agreements enforced by the United Nations world government.
As for the influence of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas: on a normal day the atmosphere contains 20,000 ppm (parts per million) of water vapor and about 300 ppm of carbon dioxide. The government-paid scientists say that an increase of 100 ppm of CO2 over the next 50 years will result in a catastrophic warming. The thermal absorptivity of water vapor is 4 times larger than that of carbon dioxide; it follows that the CO2 increase will increase the overall thermal absorptivity of the mixture by about 1/8 of one percent. The production of methane from livestock flatulence and the rotting swamps (called "wetlands" by the environmentalists) vastly surpasses the influence of human-produced CO2.
There is the Global Warming Petition Project (see Internet) where 31,478 US independent scientists declared that there is no anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming; of these 9,029 are scientists with PhD degrees. Our environmentalists tried to sabotage this effort by submiiting phony names with phoney degrees - and then claimed the whole effort by the Petition scientists was a fraud. It took us 3 years and a lot of private money to verify the credentials of all the signatories and clean up the Petition of those saboteurs. See also Manhattan Declaration with more such signatories, plus a large number of scientific groups from other countries who state the same.
I am one of these signatories, MS and PhD degrees from UCLA, with concentration in thermodynamics and heat & mass transfer.
I think to fight this communist attempt to secure a permanent hold on power should not be fought on the narrow grounds of more taxes - that is the losing proposition; where about 50% of the population is on some kind of welfare we will always be outvoted. The battle should be fought and won on the firm scientific basis.
4) And now we have "cap™" power grab.
SCAM - HOAX - FLIMFLAM - POWER GRAB!!!
axbucxdu| 5.15.10 @ 10:31AM
No greenhouse effect:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1161v3
Pingback| 5.15.10 @ 2:43PM
I live in a hot and humid climate and after 7 days, my leather seats were covered wit links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
P C Barnum| 5.16.10 @ 7:22PM
Meanwhile, if you are interested in catching any of the keynote climate science papers this merry crew of 32,000 have produced since the last Heatland Conference, send along a very small postcard - less than a dozen can show as much as a peer reviewed paragraph, producing an event about as statistically attractive to the serious minded as a convocation of snake handlers.
Nick| 5.17.10 @ 1:26PM
That is still better than the IPCC and their merry band of Global Warming Hoaxers.
Choudhary| 5.16.10 @ 9:24PM
There are varying climates in most of the places in the world. Could it be the cause of global warming?
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