Shocking
and look at the weather they had!
Peter Foster writes: It will be fascinating to see how the proceedings of The Heartland Institute’s conference on Climate Change, which is currently taking place in New York, will be covered both by the media and the climate change industry. That’s because, unlike 99% of such conferences, this one is designed to address “issues and questions not answered by advocates of the theory of man-made global warming.” In other words, it’s a conference of skeptics, who are trying to gain a reasonable hearing for the “other side” of the debate.
...Before facing major surgery, wouldn’t you want a second opinion?
When a nation faces an important decision that risks its economic future, or perhaps the fate of the ecology, it should do the same. It is a time-honored tradition in science to set up a ‘Team B,’ which examines the same original evidence but may reach a different conclusion. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) was set up to examine the same climate data used by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
...The public’s fear of anthropogenic global warming seems to be at a fever pitch. Polls show most people in most countries believe human greenhouse gas emissions are a major cause of climate change and that action must be taken to reduce them, although most people apparently are not willing to make the financial sacrifices required [Pew 2007]. While the present report makes it clear that the scientific debate is tilting away from global warming alarmism, we are pleased to see the political debate also is not over.
...We regret that many advocates in the debate have chosen to give up debating the science and now focus almost exclusively on questioning the motives of ‘skeptics,’ name-calling, and ad hominem attacks. We view this as a sign of desperation on their part, and a sign that the debate has shifted toward climate realism.
...Global warming ‘skeptics’ in the policy arena include Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic...
...We stand ready to defend the analysis and conclusion in the study that follows, and to give further advice to policymakers who are open-minded on this most important topic.
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