I’m about to leave for ICCC4, which is predictably being billed as “denialpalooza” by our friends in alarmist world. Heh. Maybe smearapalooza might be a good label for their response.
This year, the conference is in Chicago, and it appears to be the biggest yet. I’ll try to have some on the scene reports posted when I can, but I’ve got a pretty full schedule.
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I’ll be having dinner tonight with some very special people.
I hope that the restaurant won’t be so noisy that I’ll miss hearing most of the conversation. I look forward to seeing many friends there and at the conference.
I should note that Willis Eschenbach has been invited to make a presentation. Good for him! Steve McIntyre will be giving a keynote address, and Lucia and Jeff Id will be joining as guest bloggers, which is easy for them since they both live within driving distance of the conference.
Here’s a list of speakers, including yours truly. Here’s the program (PDF) Roger L. Simon at Pajamas Media also has a short summary.
A number of people with opposing views, including Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Phil Jones and William Schlesinger, were invited to the ICCC4 conference. They all declined.
PJTV is providing an important service. Live video coverage (streaming and otherwise) will be at the PJTV CLIMATEGATE 2010 MICROSITE. I thank them for doing this.
Oh, and I want to sincerely thank Evan Jones, he’ll know why.
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Thanks for all you do Anthony and have a great time.
I’m heading out tomorrow PM, hope I’ll get there in time for the reception, I’m not sure how long it will take to get there from Midway.
Not much free time during the event, I hope there will be enough to shake your hand!
The tyrants of AGW would never stoop to consorting with mere mortals. Nevah! Just shows how open these so-called “scientists” really are. A pox on their egos.
Give ’em what for, Anthony. I was going to say “Wish I could watch from the gallery.” but then realized I have access to live video coverage as Anthony mentioned. Kudos for technology!
I hope at least one of these speakers points out that on geological time scales the Milankovitch cycles would appear to have much more impact upon the climate of this planet than anything other than a large impact or super vulcanic eruption. Man’s contibutions would be relatively immeasurably small in any event and there is absolutely nothing we can do about the natural causes of climate change other than adapt, if at all possible, given the magnitude and speed of that change.
That would be a dinner I would love to be part of, Anthony!! I’m certain all the regulars on this site would love to be there as well. Judging by the hit count on WUWT? you have a LOT of people behind you Anthony. I wonder if the MSM can afford to ignore this one as the tsunami of public opinion has changed direction. I think it will be a very different conference than the threee preceding. Kick butt, chew gum, and take down names !!
I’m surprised that Phil Jones declined. As a prime assembler of raw data, he is in a position to make a better name for himself, more so than many.
That’s too bad.
Anthony – WUWT is my favourite website. I thank you for your dedication and your integrity. I look forward to reports from the conference.
Jack
“A number of people with opposing views, including Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Phil Jones and William Schlesinger, were invited to the ICCC4 conference. They all declined.”
And when they have a conference they prohibit opposing views.
That pretty much sums up the state of the establishment’s current brand of science and academia.
Too full of themselves and intolerant.
Anthony, good luck and by all means have some fun while you are there. Chicago is a fun town, and with plenty to see and do. YOU HAVE EARNED SOME FUN .
should be a very biased meeting given the list of speakers. I do believe they should have worked harder to engage climate scientists to speak. There are MANY others besides the few Anthony mentioned in his post. And I believe this for the climate scientists who believe in GHG-induced warming as well. A real debate between the climate experts from both sides is needed (and I mean between the PhD scientists directly working in the field, not TV weather folks or political folks). That is something I’m pushing for the next annual GSA meeting (Geological Society of America).
Wish I could be there, lots of very interesting and informed people attending.
I really do hope that the USA is tuned in.
Hope this time the world msm give it more and due attention – about goddamn time.
Make lots of noise Anthony…… .
Eventually by some strange twist (and if enough hell is raised); it may percolate into the ears of our dullard political ‘elite’ – who all reside in the AGW believers’ bunker aka Notting Hill lalaland, over here in Blighty.
Anthony, have a good time and pass on our best regards to all those like you who are fighting the good fight.
Also pass on a big thankyou from us as well.
From the article:
These climate alarmists are always afraid to interact with scientific skeptics. They never invite anyone to their conferences who has not drunk the catastrophic AGW Kool Aid, and now they tuck their tails between their hind legs and run for the hills when they are invited to share ideas and make their case with the hated and feared skeptical scientists [who, being skeptics per the scientific method, are the only honest kind of scientists; the alarmists are SINO’s]. Their absence says it all: CAGW pseudo-science cannot withstand falsification, so they hide out.
No doubt Michael Mann has been furiously agitating behind the scenes as the enforcer of orthodoxy within his alarmist clique, threatening anyone who showed the slightest interest in attending this conference with having their future papers blocked from peer review journals.
They really should have sent at least one emissary to avoid the appearance of their childish embargo, and to demonstrate to the public that some of them can think for themselves. Now, any critique of the conference will come from the ignorance of absence: they stayed home instead of having skin in the game.
I just informed (i think) a controversial columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times about the conference. It is one of the major Chicago newspapers.
Worth a try I guess.
I wonder if Judith Curry will manage to visit, I didn’t see her name on the list, but I hope so.
It is nice to be able to put Faces to the Names from the Conference Program.
You would have thought that the proponents of AGW would have enjoyed such an opportunity to tell all these mis-guided souls where they are going wrong (Sarc off)
But then again maybe the questions would be too awkward to answer.
Anthony
Please don’t forget to tell the unskeptics that Global Mean Temperature is CYCLIC!
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/orssengo3.png
Cheers to all
nednead says:
May 15, 2010 at 10:35 am
should be a very biased meeting given the list of speakers. I do believe they should have worked harder to engage climate scientists to speak. There are MANY others besides the few Anthony mentioned in his post. And I believe this for the climate scientists who believe in GHG-induced warming as well. A real debate between the climate experts from both sides is needed (and I mean between the PhD scientists directly working in the field, not TV weather folks or political folks). That is something I’m pushing for the next annual GSA meeting (Geological Society of America).
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Reply: Beg your pardon? Some of us “real scientists” actually went on to get real jobs. How’s that for an equivalent condescending attitude?
Since two-thirds of the public now disbelieve AGW, wouldn’t it be logical for the AGW crowd to attend? Oh, I forgot–there’s the operative word “logical”. Really though, it does show how anti-scientific the annointed in the AGW cult really are. Smokey hit it on the head by calling them SINOs.
But good luck with your GSA siege (an organization I dropped long ago); come crowing back if you’re successful.
nednead says, May 15, 2010 at 10:35 am:
“Should be a very biased meeting given the list of speakers.”
“Biased” is an inappropriate word in this context. Invitations were sent out, and there was an ad for the conference running for the last month or two on the WUWT home page [and we know they read WUWT – they can’t help themselves].
The blame must be placed entirely on what is obviously a concerted effort to keep anyone from the Hokey Stick Team from attending. Many of them no doubt wanted to attend; can you imagine the intense behind the scenes pressure to keep them away? And if Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Phil Jones, William Schlesinger or any other well known alarmist had expressed any interest in making a presentation, they would have been accommodated with alacrity. But since their conjectures are scientifically untenable, they had no choice but to hide out.
Those people are not interested in science. Their actions are 100% politics. And it is the SINO’s loss; now all they can do is snipe from the sidelines after the fact, having forfeited their opportunity to speak at the conference.
A number of people with opposing views, including Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Phil Jones and William Schlesinger, were invited to the ICCC4 conference. They all declined.
Completely understandable. That would require either having a vertebral column or cajones. Or, some actual science.
Happy conferencing, Anthony.
“Denialpalooza?” Lame-O. On the other hand, we might call the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico in Nov. “Alarmalot”, assuming there’s a round table.
Hope you enjoy the conference, but in all honesty these sort of things nearly always turn out to be a “preaching to the choir” kind of event on both sides of the aisle.
Are they still offering a discount on registration fee if you sign a petition? I think it was this same conference that did so last year, and I tried in vain to get them to reconsider. Such a discount lessens the value of the petition and I was shocked the organizers couldn’t see that.
As an opponent of alarmism, I am always disappointed to see other opponents do things which are counterproductive. Still, it’s important to call them on it. Helps one to avoid getting a tribal mentality. If only more mainstream scientists realized this, alarmism may not have become so rampant.
Seems to be the perfect opportunity for the supporters of AGW to present their science and convince the ‘sceptics’. I wonder why they declined the invitation.
Have a good time, Anthony.
Curiousgeorge,May 15, 2010 at 11:15 am:
And whose fault is that??
These conferences should all have people with different points of view attending and speaking. But the climate alarmists would rather cancel a conference than allow a skeptical scientist to speak. And then they boycott these conferences, rather than attending and discussing the issues. No wonder they’re losing all credibility.