Posted by Dee Norris
Mark your calendars.
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change returns to New York City on March 8th, 2009.
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will serve as a platform for scientists and policy analysts from around the world who question the theory of man-made climate change. This year’s theme, “Global Warming Crisis: Cancelled,” calls attention to new research findings that contradict the conclusions of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Last year’s conference was reported to be a great success and you can access the audio and video recordings of presentations made at the 2008 conference Web site.
Distinguished scholars from the U.S. and around the world have addressed these questions seriously and without institutional bias. Their findings suggest the Modern Warming is moderate and partly or even mostly a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age; that the consequences of moderate warming are positive for humanity and wildlife; that predictions of future warming are wildly unreliable; that the costs of trying to “stop global warming” exceed hypothetical benefits by a factor of 10 or more; and more.
Often, these scholars have been ignored, and often even censored and demonized. They have been labeled “skeptics” and even “global warming deniers,” a mean-spirited attempt to lump them together with Holocaust deniers. The truth of the matter is that these scholars dissent from a false “consensus” put forward by a small but politically powerful clique of government scientists and political allies.
Actual surveys of climate scientists and recent reviews of the scholarly literature both show the so-called “skeptics” may actually be in the majority of the climate science community. They do not lack scholarly credentials or scientific integrity, but a platform from which they can be heard. Their voices have been drowned out by publicity built upon the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an entity with an agenda to build support for the theory of man-made catastrophic global warming.
This year promises double the attendance as in 2008 and the esteemed Anthony Watts is a confirmed speaker.
I plan on attending. Do you?
Confirmed Speakers
| Name | Affiliation |
| Dennis Avery | Hudson Institute |
| Joseph Bast | The Heartland Institute |
| Robert Bradley | Institute for Energy Research |
| Bob Carter | James Cook University (Australia) |
| Frank Clemente | Penn State University |
| John Coleman | KUSI-TV – San Diego |
| Joseph D’Aleo | International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project |
| David Douglass | University of Rochester |
| Myron Ebell | Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| Michelle Foss | University of Texas – Center for Energy Economics |
| Fred Goldberg | Royal School of Technology (Sweden) |
| Laurence Gould | University of Hartford |
| William Gray | Colorado State University |
| Chris Horner | Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| Craig Idso | Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change |
| David Legates | University of Delaware |
| Jay Lehr | The Heartland Institute |
| Marlo Lewis | Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| Richard Lindzen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Ross McKitrick | University of Guelph |
| Christopher Monckton | Science and Public Policy Institute |
| Jim O’Brien | Florida State University |
| Tim Patterson | Carleton University |
| Benny Peiser | Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom) |
| Paul Reiter | Institut Pasteur (France) |
| Arthur Robinson | Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine |
| Joel Schwartz | American Enterprise Institute |
| S. Fred Singer | Science and Environmental Policy Project |
| Fred Smith | Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| Willie Soon | Science and Public Policy Project |
| Roy Spencer | University of Alabama at Huntsville |
| James M. Taylor | The Heartland Institute |
| Anthony Watts | Surfacestations.org |
Perhaps we can get Al Gore to speak so we are assured of cold weather.
Just an afterthought: As many of you know, Anthony does not receive funding for his work at www.surfacestations.org or here at WUWT. The funds to attend this conference will most likely come out of his pocket. Look to your right and you will see at little yellow Donate button under the SHAMELESS PLUG heading. WUWT gets over 10,000 views a day and if just 0.5% of this traffic contributes ten dollars apiece, we can entirely fund Anthony’s conference expenses. How about it? Do we walk the walk or just talk?
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The question is why? The fact this conference seems to be the only platform where scientists can express their disagreement with IPCC claims is astounding.
How does this situation come about? Why can’t it be corrected?
Congratulation Anthony,
I see your name on the list of speakers. You are among the name of many great speakers who will be treated favorably when history is written.
If things keep going like they are (temps, ice ect) this meeting will probably be redundant by then… I’ve spoken to quite a few AGW’ers lately, their argument is that it is good for people to believe in it even it ain’t happening because of pollution, overpopulation ect.. I tend to agree. I think the whole C02 versus temps will just die out anyway…
By March 8, 2009 under the new administration, CO2 will have been outlawed, other legislation will have been passed, and the attendees of this conference will all be arrested under the ‘improved’ Patriot Act. Mark my words.
I’m piggy-backing on the “Mark Your Calendars” subhead.
Today is another “Black Friday.”
Stock index futures markets are currently “Limit Down,” meaning that they have reached their price limits and have been halted. The limit for ‘pre-market’ trading (before the opening of the NYSE and NASDAQ) is 5%.
When the NYSE and NASDAQ open, the limit becomes 10% The percentage limits are set at the beginning of each calendar quarter, so the 10% limit for the Dow is 1100 points. That could be reached in the first few minutes of trading. When the limit is hit, trading will be halted for 1 hour.
Oil prices have also crashed, based on the expectation of economic slowdown and reduced demand, in spite of the fact that OPEC just approved a 1.5 million barrel-per-day “emergency” production cut.
One thing I suggest is publicity, a lot of publicity, at the level of that pulled by the Public Relations people in CERN. You all remember the huge promotion around turning on the LHC, last September 10th. Even Google made a special logo for this event, and most newspapers opened up with its coverage. Many slogans were repeated constantly, like “LHC is its own prototype”, “the biggest scientific event since Man was sent to the Moon”, and the like. In the end it was a great victory for the CERN direction: the world was moved, at least for a few days, towards that event. The public relations people of this event should try to trigger the global interest at that level, learn with CERN and push the right buttons to, at least, get the people to realize the alternative to the Gore dogma exists and is strong. Some mystery, mysticism, and other things that make people should be input to the promotion. The message would be more widespread than in the last conference. And if the media create resistance to pass the message, the internet can be a more fluid medium, as it was during the time preceding the LHC day.
I also want to note again my strong belief that the recession will be used by global warmers to “prove” man-made global warming.
Cooler global temperatures are already occurring and will continue through (at least) this winter.
Oil use will also decline, in readily verifiable numbers.
Ipso facto, the decline in oil use caused the decline in temperatures.
Obviously, recession is good for the planet, prosperity is bad.
So if you’ve had your home foreclosed, and if you lose your job, THANK YOU for doing your part to stabilize the climate.
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I think it would be a good idea to install a windowed crying room like in the back of Catholic churches. The warmers could go back there and get all that grief out without disturbing others. You could have pillows and blankets available, and maybe snacks. Make sure you have an extra heater available. Those crying rooms are notoriously cold.
Vincent: If things keep going like they are (temps, ice ect) this meeting will probably be redundant by then… I’ve spoken to quite a few AGW’ers lately, their argument is that it is good for people to believe in it even it ain’t happening because of pollution, overpopulation ect.. I tend to agree. I think the whole C02 versus temps will just die out anyway…
It’s a huge mistake to think that the AGW/CC movement is in any way about truth or science. It is non-falsifiable, and therefore pseudo-science. It is never good for people to believe a lie, as lies are the foundation for fascism. The ends, whatever they may be, never justify the means.
Hitler was right -“the great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victim to a great lie than a small one’’.
“What if you held a conference and no (real) scientists came?”
I wonder if SurrealClimte will run that again.
I hope this conference will attract converts. One strategy should be to entice scientists who are sitting on the fence, or are retired AGWers to convert and join the sceptic side. I’m happy this conference has taken root, and I’m ready to make a contribution. Where can one contribute?
Still, look for the Climate Czar in Obama’s Admin to throw serious sand into this conference. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went so far as to try to shut it down using lawsuits.
It would be nice if Roger Pielke would present as well. Le’ts draft him. I would even think Lucia with her analysis rejecting IPCC AR4 models would be a good paper:
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2008/santer-method-applied-since-jan-2001-average-trend-based-on-38-ippc-ar4-models-rejected/
Remember, CO2 is a pollutant, and soon to be regulated by the EPA.
Vincent, I think you’re absolutely correct that this will be the tact that AGWers take. The first evolution was from Global Warming to Climate Change. Now it will be all about sustainability and what’s good for the earth. But what won’t change will be the concessions the AGWers want everyone else to make. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t want people telling me (or taxing me, based on) how much I water my lawn or how many pieces of toilet paper I should be using.
FYI, it’s “etc.” not “ect” 😉 Pedantic, I know, but I figured people would want to use the right word.
I agree with George M. The US will look more like the USSR (United States Socialist Republic) next year. People who think that the world depends on everyone “believing what they believe” are irrational, and I don’t think there is any limit on the damage Obama/Gore/Pelosi/Reed can and will do to free speech.
The courtship phase is almost over. Now we descend into the reality of some dark core beliefs.
Hey Anthony, why are the most important speakers at the bottom of the list 🙂
I note one of the Mc’s is there but not the other, shame.
Should be a great conference shame that the main media groups won’t be there, they never are for the realists/scientists.
REPLY: Actually, NYT was there last year, as was ABC and CNN. I appeared live on CNN last year on the Glenn Beck show to show the surfacestations project. – Anthony
This important conference will likely get zero coverage in mainstream media. All major news outlets that the general population accesses daily are tacitly or openly endorsing AGW as irrefutable fact. Even abnormally cold weather is attributed to global warming (“AGW makes the climate crazy”).
Each major media outlet has at least one dedicated eco-journalist who regularly hammers the AGW message.
The turnaround in public opinion can’t come until some of the general media first comes around. As it is now, it seems only a little less likely we will see CNN, Time or Newsweek say “SCIENTISTS ESTABLISH THERE IS NO MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING – IPCC DISCREDITED ” as you will see them say “THERE IS NO GOD”
BernardP (07:37:20) :
‘As it is now, it seems only a little less likely we will see CNN, Time or Newsweek say “SCIENTISTS ESTABLISH THERE IS NO MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING – IPCC DISCREDITED ” as you will see them say “THERE IS NO GOD”’
COMMUNISM WINS COLD WAR IN SURPRISE REVERSAL – USSR ‘POSSUM’ STRATEGY SUCCESSFUL IN DEFEATING FREE ENTERPRISE
It would be great if videos of the presentations were made available online.
Preferably of high enough quality to be pleasant to watch.
Here’s an idea to put out early… how can we compile a list of anonymous but verifiable scientists who would attend but cannot owing to discrimination against skeptics…
“THERE IS NO GOD”
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm
As for “COMMUNISM WINS COLD WAR IN SURPRISE REVERSAL – USSR ‘POSSUM’ STRATEGY SUCCESSFUL IN DEFEATING FREE ENTERPRISE”
see any current stock market feed….
If the conference organizers plan on a video feed, they might want to consider including a Swarmplayer (streaming Bit Torrent) feed. Less bandwidth, and a big Swarmplayer test may attract the attention of the “early adopter” crowd.
FYI, it’s “etc.” not “ect” 😉 Pedantic, I know, but I figured people would want to use the right abbreviation. 🙂
Vincent Guerrini Jr (05:51:23) :
“…. their argument is that it is good for people to believe in it even it ain’t happening because of pollution, overpopulation ect.. I tend to agree. I think the whole C02 versus temps will just die out anyway…”
Surely your many visits to Anthony’s house have taught you one thing above all others.
Most of what we are told is fact, settled or beyond question is exactly (and usually diametrically) the opposite.
The big lie of “CO2 causes warming” has alerted me to other big lies and your post reminded me of at least two – overpopulation and, the often linked, lack of resources.
There is plenty of room and resources for three times the number of sharing caring folk than that currently gracing the face of the Earth. Discounting technological advances.
As it happens I think next year’s “Not the IPCC” meeting will garner a bit more publicity than this year’s for one reason. The coming bitterly cold NH winter. Go Heretics.