Skeptic Conference Ends with Discussions of Latest Science Challenging UN Reports, Recognition of Professional Courage and Honesty
LAS VEGAS (July 9, 2014)— Today, the last day of the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change(ICCC9), will include the presentation of the “Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science Award” to Dr. S. Fred Singer, as well as 29 more presentations from leading “skeptic” scientists and policy experts of a human-caused climate crisis.
The live stream with full coverage of ICCC9 will begin at 8 a.m. PDT today (Wednesday, July 9.) The last of 70 total presentations at the conference will conclude 4 p.m. PDT.
Singer was among the first and is still the most prominent scientist in the world speaking out against global warming alarmism. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of many books, including Climate Change Reconsidered (several volumes), a comprehensive critique of the assessment reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.
Click here for much more information about Singer’s long and distinguished scientific career. See bios of all presenters at ICCC9 at the speakers page for the conference website, and click here for a full list of award recipients at the three-day conference from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
“Fred Singer is the most amazing and wonderful person participating in the global warming debate today,” said Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, sponsor of the award. “Fred was one of the original ‘rocket scientists’ who helped put satellites and eventually men into space in the 1960s. He is a brilliant scientist and a pioneer in many fields, and one of the most recognized scientists of his generation.
“Fred could have accepted the awards and honorary degrees and settled into a peaceful retirement. Instead, he began writing books and articles exposing errors and corruption in climate science,” Bast continued. “As a result, this kind and patient man, a true American science hero, is slandered and vilified by environmental activists and journalists who couldn’t make it through a high school chemistry class.
“We are very proud to recognize Fred Singer’s lifetime achievements in climate science with this award,” said Bast.
A run-down of the day’s events, which will stream online here:
8:00 AM PDT Plenary Session
Keynotes: Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. Jay Lehr
Awards: Art Robinson receives the “Voice of Reason Award” from The Heartland Institute; Roy Spencer receives the “Outstanding Evangelical Climate Scientist Award” from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
10:00 AM PDT Panels
Climate Change, Water, and Human Well Being: Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, and Dr. S. Fred Singer (Moderator: Dr. John Dunn)
Weather and Climate Change: Dr. Madhav Khandekar, Joe Bastardi, and Stanley Goldenberg (Moderator: Paul Driessen)
How Reliable Are Temperature Records? Is Global Warming Rapid and Dangerous?: Anthony Watts and Richard Keen (Moderator: Norman Rogers)
11:30 AM PDT Panels
NIPCC versus IPCC: Biological Impacts: Dr. Craig Loehle and Dr. Craig Idso (Moderator: Craig Rucker)
Peer Review, Herding, and the Reliability of Climate Science: Dr. Patrick Michaels, Dr. Tim Ball, and Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (Moderator: Tom Harris)
New Estimates of Climate Sensitivity: Robert Armstrong, Dr. Anthony Lupo, and Dr. Olavi Karner (Moderator: Norman Rogers)
1:00 PM PDT Plenary Session
Keynote Address: Lord Christopher Monckton
Awards: Fred Singer receives the “Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science Award” from The Heartland Institute; “Surprise” Award to mystery recipient
3:00 PM PDT Panels
Looking Ahead: Future Climates: Dr. Don Easterbrook, Willis Eschenbach, and Dr. Terrence Flower (Moderator: Marlo Lewis)
The Global Warming Debate in Australia: Hon. George Christensen, Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, and Dr. William Kininmonth (Moderator: Dr. Robert Carter)
Global Warming as a Social Movement: Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Paul Driessen, and Peter Ferrara (Moderator: Rep. Pat Garofalo)
Global Warming Debate
The debate over the causes and consequences of global warming (or “climate change”) is one of the great controversies of the modern era. While environmental activists and some politicians claim “the debate is over” and call for immediate action to reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact – too small to warrant concern – and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.
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Forgot to add something I’m seeing again in a replay – sometimes it takes many minutes of someone referring to slides before those slides are finally shown in the video.
Well, title or no title, he certainly behaves like an engineer. (Is there such a thing as a Climate Mechanisms Engineer? If not, maybe there should be.)
I got to meet Dr. Singer once and shake his hand. It was all I could do to not say, ” I am not worthy! I am not worthy!”
At http://climateconference.heartland.org/ list of archived videos, the panel 17 link plays Tuesday’s panel 11 video. I don’t see a website problems link to report this. Every website should have a link to report problems, but far too many don’t.
Winston, after you select Panel 17 and it launches a new USTREAM window, on the right bar select Panel 11 and that video will play.
All the speakers have been informative, some inspiring and entertaining. I am puzzled by Lord Monckton’s presentation. I was laughing, smiling and nodding along with the audience until the very end. He recommended we all write our representatives to make sure they include a “Freedom” clause in the Kyoto treaty allowing the country to withdraw after three years. He then jumped on the freedom band wagon pointing out that the US is all about freedom, etc, etc. Did anyone else find this odd? It was a very sour note out of tune with the entire rest of the conference. If I write to my congressman or senator it will be to demand they do not under any circumstances enter into the Kyoto treaty. I will be watching Lord Monckton very carefully henceforth.
At last the final version! In poetry less is often more.
PROFESSOR PHIL JONES
The English Prometheus
To tell the tale as it began —
An ego yearned
Ambition burned
Inside a quiet little man
No one had heard of Phillip Jones
Obscure to fame
(And likewise blame)
The creep of time upon his bones
Men self-deceive when fame is sought
Their fingers fold
Their ego told
That fire is what their fist has caught!
Such want to feel, not understand!
Jones made it plain
That Hell must reign
In England’s green and pleasant land
What demon in him came to birth?
In mental fight
Against the light
Jones raised the temperature of earth!
And with his arrows of desire
In sneak attacks
He shot the backs
Of those who questioned — where’s the fire!
Raw data which was burning gold
He threw away
So none could say
It falsified what he foretold
East Anglia supports him still
The truth denied
Whitewash applied
Within that dark Satanic Mill
The evil that this wimp began
Will go around
And come around
Prometheus soon wicker man
Eugene WR Gallun
Eugene WR Gallun,
You have a real talent! Thanks.
==================================================================
Well said.
How many warmist attack Hayhoe because of her religion(s)?
I am still completely puzzled by what Anthony is doing and why, referring to his latest presentation at Heartland, but also the first draft of the paper from 2012.
Anthony Watts from the Press Release on the paper from 2012: “U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments.”
Anthony Watts from the paper itself 2012 p.24 “These large differences demonstrated between regional and CONUS trends accomplished by removal of airports and choosing the rural subset of stations to remove any potential urbanization effects suggests that rural MMTS stations not situated at airports may have the best representivity of all stations in the USHCNv2”
The only problem is that the press release and the paper are in complete contradiction, because the MMTS compliant stations that Anthony himself says are the best have only 0.032 S per decade of warming, not 0.155. And consequently the “spurious” warming is not by adding a half but rather a 9/10 to the correct trend. Why did Anthony had chosen and still continues to advertise obviously irrelevant and incorrect figure of the warming trend for ALL of the compliant stations, majority of which are urban and thus artificially warm, instead of emphasizing the flat trend at good, rural stations that he himself claims represent the true climatic trend? In his presentation at Heartland he did not even mention the rural MMTS! What’s going on?
[” 0.032 S per decade ” ?? .mod]
it’s 0.032 C, sorry for the mistake.
Did they recognize Fred’s contribution about cancer risks of passive smoking when presenting him the award?