This short video (4:30) was shot and edited by videographer Paul Budline from New Jersey, and it encapsulates short clips from many of the speakers at the conference. It is a good summary and worth your time. There’s a bit of a “Friday Funny” on “big oil” that follows too.
For the purpose of full disclosure, Budline in an email to me noted that:
“I pitched the idea to Heartland because I have been following this for so many years. But I can not afford to do anything that has to do with those dreaded Latin words pro bono, so I gave them a very reasonable budget. They [Heartland] provided no guidance on who to interview or on any of the writing or editing or anything else…”
It should also be noted that Heartland did not pay the speakers, including yours truly, but did cover our travel expenses. I think “low budget” would be the best way to describe the conference compared to say, the Fall 2013 AGU conference I attended, but I think the “bang for buck” factor was pretty good.
One notable difference between ICCC9 and the AGU 2013 Fall conference were the sponsors. On the left is the AGU sponsors, on the right, Heartland’s (click to enlarge/read).
For those that don’t believe the AGU sponsorships, note that I covered this at WUWT last fall, and of course you can still see the page at AGU here http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/general-information/thank-you-to-our-sponsors/
…where they thank “big oil” for the money to put on their science extravaganza.
It’s worse than you thought. Clicking thru to look at the list of AGU sponsors reveals that not only are half of the top sponsors from “Big Oil” but Schlumberger, one of the Big Oil service companies that provides fracking services and fluids, is also a major sponsor.
If there’s a clearer indication than this that these guys are just in it for the money, I can’t imagine what it would be — their hypocrisy is blatant.
The sinful oil is washed clean by the purifying caress of Green virtue.
It’s a miracle.
Can you imagine the level of hate the AGU would issue against big oil if big oil actually refused to buckle under to the green shakedown? Big oil is cutting their losses and passing the expense on to their customers. When your customer base is the global population the burden on each customer is spread thin, so it becomes a matter of principle to insist they stop paying ransom to Big Education.
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
A big thanks to Heartland for making the whole thing happen. What a wealth of knowledge that was on display!
the speakers are working on this computer so if I want to really watch this have to do on another computer.
Did you see Varney and Tom Steyer go at this morning.Steyer stated he wast against the minimum wage, wants lower spending and lower taxes. He did not seem to accept that things he wants and does not want are the opposite of Obama for whom he hosts fundraisers.
Also I saw that Huckabee came out for the RINO running for re-election in KS.
Charles
Paul Budline did a great job!
the Heartland Institute you say? Hmmm…that brings back memories-
https://www.google.com.au/search?newwindow=1&site=&source=hp&q=wayback+machine&oq=wayback&gs_l=hp.1.0.0l10.1798.8114.0.12002.8.8.0.0.0.0.384.2083.2-7j1.8.0.crnk_qsra.1..0…1.1.49.hp..1.7.1697.0.jDUmTBL9dss
oops here-
http://web.archive.org/web/20130408215829/http://www.pacinst.org/publications/20th_anniversary/page2.html
Anthony, I was reading arstechnica where I found this link: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/las-vegas-climate-change-denial-brendan-montague-101. I gather you had the unfortunate experience of meeting this AGW zealot, who doesn’t really say anything other than make personal attacks on “climate change deniers”.
REPLY: yeah, I met him. Not impressed. – Anthony
Excellent capsule of the conference, in my mind at least. I’d like to make a comment about AGU and “big oil.” You have to understand “big oils” true point of view. They really don’t want to use petroleum as an energy source. That IS there position, thus the “green wedding” makes real sense. They would rather use the oil to create recyclable items where they can make money on oil more then once. They envision there future in recyclable plastics, not gasoline, thus they will support the green agenda up until the agenda starts to truly attack plastics – and you may have noticed that “big green” doesn’t discuss the plastic masses in the oceans nearly as much as they used to, and you also can understand why – “thanks big oil for your contributions to our anti-human positions.”
I’m guessing the closest thing to “Big Oil” at the Heartland conference was a rental car leaking a bit in the parking lot or maybe one of the attendees still uses Brylcreem? I’m sure there’s a connection in there somewhere.
Green indulgence payments to the high priests of former science process
Yet they still scream “well funded denialist machine.” It’s a myth perpetuated to mask their own failures to enact action faster than they are.
http://americablog.com/2014/05/erring-side-least-drama-climate-scientists-inherently-conservative-video.html
The well funded machine is the Global Warming machine ( now known as climate change) The Us government as spent 165 billion dollars on it, 35 billion toward the “science” The Apollo project cost 130billion, which is why there is no moon base and NASA smartly so ran to where the money is.
If its the US, then its the taxpayer. And what have we got.. almost 20 years of no temp change, and a list of excuses rivaling the Dog ate my homework, and a bunch of people screaming that there is a well funded big oil denial machines.
Given the world of the parasitic climatic ambulance chasers this ilk really is, if you want to fight it a quote Sheriff Ed Bell in No Country for Old Men has to be considered:
” A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He’d have to say, “O.K., I’ll be part of this world.”
Geophyics (seismic surveys) is the main tool in exploring for gas and oil, hence the presence of so many oil companies as sponsors.
‘Big Oil’ is like any company, even ‘small pool installers inc’. They want to make money.
Since 1970 the share of the US economy devoted to energy has gown down a lot. The only way to make more money if you are an energy company is to charge radically more for the same product. Since people don’t want any more energy in the developed world, rising prices is the only solution.
Green energy projects are perfect as they create very little energy and are very expensive, and are protected by govt subsidies and laws.
They are protected at least until the govt gets sick of it all and does what Spain did – claw back.
Note: All of the recorded presentations at the conference are available for viewing here. Hopefully they will make their way to their YouTube channel so they can be shared and embedded more easily.
http://climateconference.heartland.org/
I think some of the commenters here are somewhat misguided about AGU and its being sponsored by Exxon, BP Chevron etc. AGU is not only about climate change. AGU covers all sorts of geophysical science, and some of that is related to oil and gas exploration and production.
It is not that surprising that oil and gas companies sponsor a meeting of AGU because they are interested in geological, geophysical, mathematical and computing science as it relates to the science that goes into hydrocarbon exploration, production, data processing, drilling and so on. They are also interested in research undertaken by universities, sometimes paid for by consortia of oil and gas companies. Finally they are interested in graduates and where they are taught well.
(This comment from a long-time visitor to WUWT who enjoys this blog tremendously)
Tom O-
Your statements are unsupported by the facts, and quite frankly they don’t make a lot of sense.
Firstly Big oil does not make plastics, that would be chemical companies such as Dow and Dupont.
Secondly plastics are mainly made from natural gas, not oil.
Keith 11.04: What you say makes a great deal of sense. The other factor is that “big Oil” KNOW that the CAGW narrative is false and unsustainable and that “renewables” cannot conceivably replace fossil fuels to any extent. The developing nations will not, under any circumstances, buy in to an emission reduction agenda. In other words, the demand for their products is unassailable.
The current targets of the greenocracy are coal and nuclear – Big Oil’s only challengers. Of course they are happy to fund the environmental delusion. How much funding have they provided any “sceptical” player in this game? The allure of “renewables” is rapidly fading in those entities (i.e the EU) who have committed big time. What can replace those failing resources but Oil and Gas?
ossqss says:
July 25, 2014 at 11:02 am
Note: All of the recorded presentations at the conference are available for viewing here. Hopefully they will make their way to their YouTube channel so they can be shared and embedded more easily.
http://climateconference.heartland.org/
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All but seven of the presentations have been uploaded to YouTube. The rest (bringing the total to 79 vids) will be up next week. A good place to seek out and view presentations by speaker is at the Climate Conferences Archive Page, which now has ICCC9 added to the eight previous conferences.
http://climateconferences.heartland.org/
Jim Lakely
Director of Communications
The Heartland Institute
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A nicely produced video. But where will it be distributed? If it only appears on the Heartland web site or here on wattsupwiththat then you are just preaching to the choir.
Mumbles McGuirck,
Nothing is stopping anyone from sharing the video themselves. Between the article and the comments, there are several buttons that can be clicked on to share the video with whomever you wish. Alternatively, you can click on “Youtube” at the bottom of the video window to open the video on its native youtube page. From there you have many avenues for sharing the video. I sent a link to the video on youtube via email to everyone on my normal email list. I also shared it on my facebook page.
For a list of 20-plus things that would be happening (but aren’t) if climate contrarians were actually well-organized and well-funded, see my WUWT guest-thread, “Notes from Skull Island” at
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/
That really was an excellent video. Not a word wasted, topics varied and with perfect length. Leaves you wanting more.
Eugene WR Gallun