Earlier this month, the Heartland Institute sponsored the 2009 International Conference
on Climate Change in New York. The Conference differed from most such events in that
it was devoted to science, not politics or propaganda. Heartland has now made the materials
presented at the conference available online, here. You can review the agenda, watch
videos of the keynote presentations, read transcripts of some of the speeches, and see
the Power Points that were presented by the speakers. More information will be posted
as it becomes available.
Original articleThese are a few of the many slides that I found interesting.
This one, by Dennis Avery, puts the climate swings of the last 12,000 years (i.e., since
the last Ice Age) in perspective; click to enlarge:
This one,
by Syun Akasofu, also takes a long-term view, and compares the politically-driven prediction
by the UN's IPCC with the historical trend as the earth has recovered from the Little
Ice Age:
Don Easterbrook
makes the basic point that, contrary to the hysterical predictions of the alarmists,
the earth is cooling, not warming:
This
one by Dennis Avery shows the lack of any correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperatures
in the atmosphere:
Don Easterbrook
compares the correlations of solar activity and CO2 concentration to temperature. It
seems pretty obvious where the explanation for fluctuations in temperature lies:
Due to the efforts of Heartland and others, the public is beginning to catch on to the
cosmic scam that Al Gore, James Hansen and others--mostly not scientists--have been
perpetrating. Meanwhile, the Obama administration, seemingly determined to inflict the
maximum possible damage on the economy in the shortest time, is trying to ram a cap-and-trade
carbon tax through Congress before opposition can be mobilized. It's easier to do that,
of course, when you know that Congressmen won't read the statute before they vote on
it. So our only hope is an informed citizenry.
