Climate Skeptics gather in Washington, D.C. for #ICCC10

By Alan Caruba

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On Thursday and Friday, June 11-12, there will be a gathering of some of the nation’s and the world’s leading climate change “skeptics” in Washington, D.C. and joining them will be members of Congress and their staffs. The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change will occur and the odds are that the mainstream media, as it has done for all the previous conferences, will do its best to ignore it.

In attendance as well will be scores of scientists, economists, and policy experts for a conference being held just two blocks from a White House in which the President of the United States resides while lying about “climate change” as the greatest threat to the planet.

In March, the Gallup Poll revealed that “Although climate scientists have been in the news describing this winter as a strong signal that global warming is producing more extreme weather, Americans are no more likely today (55%) than in the past two years to believe the effects of global warming are occurring.”

The Conference is sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free-market think tank and, while most of us have heard of the Rand Corporation or the Heritage Foundation, Heartland is one of the those power houses that labors without the “image” accorded others.

Founded in 1984, it has a full-time staff of 31 with approximately 235 academics and professional economists who participate in its peer-review process, plus more than 160 elected officials who serve on its Legislative Forum. In addition to the environment, its scholars also focus on education, health, budget and tax issues.

I have been a Heartland policy analyst for so long I can’t recall when I joined. Approximately 8,300 supporters contribute to its annual budget of $6 million. It does not accept government funding.

Without your knowing it, the nine conferences that preceded the current one have had a dramatic impact on your life and wallet. For one thing, you’re not being robbed by a “carbon tax” aimed at “reducing greenhouse gases.” On the other hand, you may be at risk of losing a coal-fired plant that provides your electricity if the Environmental Protection Agency is allowed to continue its vile attack on our energy resources.

It has been Heartland and a handful of other think tanks that labored to inform the public about the science that utterly debunked the lies about “global warming” and now works to do the same for those applied to “climate change.” Heartland’s power is seen in its conferences.

The problem for Heartland and the rest of us is that we are up against the U.S. government whose Obama administration is completely committed to the lies; agency by agency within the government have budgets and programs to continue to telling the lies. Beyond them is the entire system of government schools and, beyond them, much of the higher education community.

In early June the Daily Caller reported that “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year ‘pause’ in global warming: They ‘adjusted’ the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record.” This is what Heartland and others have been fighting against and exposing since the global warming hoax began in the late 1980s. And we are beginning to see the Congress respond.

As reported by CNS News, appropriators in the House of Representatives have let it be known that they are taking aim at one of the Obama administration’s most cherished priorities—international climate change funding. An appropriations bill for the State Department and foreign operations excluded the Green Climate Fund, the Clean Technology Fund, and the Strategic Climate Fund, while also removing funding for the U.SN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That’s millions in U.S. taxpayer funding that will not be wasted on the climate change hoax.

The Conference will honor some of the world’s leading “skeptics”—the alarmists call them “denier.” They include Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) as the winner of the Political Leadership on Climate Change Award, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. My friend, Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. will receive Heartland’s Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science award. Others whom you may not have heard of include William Happer, Ph.D., David Legates, Ph.D., and Anthony Watts, all of whom have been on the front lines of the battle for the truth about the planet’s climate.

An entire generation has grown up and graduated from college since the first lies about global warming were unleashed. That’s how long Heartland and others have labored to present the truth. If the media fails to take notice of this week’s conference, you will know that the battle will continue for a long time to come.

© Alan Caruba, 2015

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Pamela Gray
June 10, 2015 4:42 pm

Given that we are about to change our executive branch from liberal to conservative (unless of course the voting public decides to vote for the liberal mafia Clinton female), the media will look collectively stupid if they don’t cover this.

Yirgach
Reply to  Pamela Gray
June 10, 2015 7:32 pm

Pamela,
While I sincerely hope that your political forecast is correct, unless there is some kind of game changing event before the election, then I think the free sh*t army wins.
Mebbe next time…

pat
June 10, 2015 4:42 pm

looking forward to the podcasts, as always. always informative.

June 10, 2015 4:48 pm

I attended the 2nd ICCC in 2009, NY, and 4th ICCC in 2010, Chicago. My disbelief of “man-made” CC grew leaps and bounds, big thanks to Heartland Institute, http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/2014/03/4th-iccc-in-chicago-may-2010.html

Pamela Gray
June 10, 2015 4:54 pm

Before Anth+++ retires, I have got to attend one of these.

Editor
Reply to  Pamela Gray
June 10, 2015 8:19 pm

Please pick one I get to also! What’cha doing next year?

June 10, 2015 5:55 pm

I was at Las Vegas last year and it was wondereful meeting the great figures of climate skepticism and hearing the presentations. I’m still reviewing my notes. It is amazing to me that MSM shows disdain. They truly are lame.

Dave Wendt
June 10, 2015 8:20 pm

I congratulate and envy all those who are able all those who able to attend this valuable event, but no matter how clearly and undeniably the real science of climate is presented here, we are still fighting a losing battle because Obama and his corrupt minions will never allow themselves to be dissuaded from their destined course by anything so irrelavent as facts. As a case in point our new overlords at the EPA have just launched this.
http://www2.epa.gov/ejscreen
EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
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As you may or may not know, whenever a fascist true believer hangs Justice off the end of anything, it’s just their way of saying you’all are so screwed and there is not a single thing you can do about it and if you even try to question anything that we are doing we will see that you are flushed down the memory hole as a hater of humanity and especially children, driven entirely by bigotry, racism, greed, and lust for destruction.
It will be at least a year and a half before there will be even the possibility of deflecting the giant bureaucratic Battleship HMS Obama from it’s charted course and unless there is a near complete repudiation of the Obama and his whole sick crew in the coming election small deflections are probably the best we can hope for. Given the long history of the complete impossibility of doing away with government programs, rules, and regulations once they have achieved any kind of dependent constituency, we are probably looking at decades of constant and concerted effort to get to anything like a reversal.
Sadly, I see nothing on the horizon which suggests that kind of effort is forthcoming. It took thousands of years for the fortuitous gathering of exceptional individuals who fought and sacrificed to give us the chance to live in a country where the government was subject to the people rather than the people being powerless subjects of the government, as had been the almost unanimous rule for all of human history. It took less than a decade of cowardice and greed for that exceptional dream to be completely forsaken and I weep in eternal shame that I didn’t do more to at least try to stop it.

Joe Bastardi
Reply to  Dave Wendt
June 10, 2015 8:25 pm

spot on Dave

Reply to  Joe Bastardi
June 11, 2015 1:13 am

dave, many, many upvotes!

pat
June 10, 2015 8:58 pm

don’t wake them up!
11 June: BBC: Helen Briggs: Alarm sounded over progress towards key climate summit
BONN: International talks regarded as a key milestone towards a new global climate deal are due to end on Thursday, amid concern that progress has been slow.
Negotiators have been accused of spending too much time on detail and ”not getting around to any actual homework” at interim talks in Germany.
Countries are working towards options to limit greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 ahead of a crunch December summit.
Christian Aid said there was a danger of ***”sleepwalking into Paris”…
”Negotiators have acted like schoolchildren colouring in their homework timetable and not getting round to any actual homework.”
He said negotiations must deliver ”a robust text soon otherwise they will cause further unacceptable delays and result in countries sleepwalking into Paris”…
Key sticking points include finance to help developing countries adapt to climate change and agreeing on immediate and binding targets for carbon emissions.
But negotiating time is running out with only around 10 days’ worth of negotiations remaining after the Bonn talks close…
Delegates will return to Bonn in August for another round of climate talks, before the summit in Paris at the end of the year.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33088868

dmh
Reply to  pat
June 10, 2015 10:38 pm

Delegates will return to Bonn in August for another round of climate talks, before the summit in Paris at the end of the year.
Paris is toast. China and India are all signed up to grow their emissions as fast as they want for a couple of decades, and then start cutting… maybe. The G7 just devoted all of 30 minutes (THIRTY!) out of a 2 day summit to climate change and came away promising to do something by 2050. Even more hilarious, they gave themselves very nearly an entire century to get to zero emissions. A CENTURY!
So who is left that is going to be stupid enough to sewer their economy when everyone else is just lip syncing? Russia? Iran? Saudi Arabia? Brazil? Venezuela? Greece? Spain? Climate Change is finished, it just seems like it is still alive because history is written in slow motion, and it is still thrashing about in its death throes.
With apologies to the bard:
Climate Change is but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Reply to  dmh
June 11, 2015 7:40 am

Just so.
But Macbeth did become king and generated civil war, bloodshed and end tragically.

June 11, 2015 4:02 am

“Climate Skeptics gather in Washington”.
I think the whole title is wrong and feeds into the alarmist meme. I’m not particularly skeptical of “climate” or that it will change, but I am very skeptical of man-made global warming being a real threat or a primary driver of “climate change”. We need to stay on point that the issue is alarming global warming and the science of such, not whether or not the climate changes.

Mervyn
June 11, 2015 4:15 am

It is simply astonishing how these Europeans are desperately trying to find a way for Obama to sign a Paris agreement in December without the oversight and approval of Congress. In other words, the leaders of these countries that America saved from German tyranny in WWII, and reinstated democracy in these countries, now want to manipulate a process to specifically undermine the process of democracy in the US.

Eliza
June 11, 2015 5:05 am

As usual no link to the actual conference

Scott Saturday
June 11, 2015 1:33 pm

Hi Alan and thank you for Heartland’s continued role in combating agenda driven science across several disciplines. Between the flawed government grant system, the new ‘pal review’ pioneered by the IPCC, and the relentless name calling and smug assertions that any scientist who has the audacity to disagree is either senile or not credentialed enough to comment, one has to wonder what kind of lasting damage is being done to science itself.

Editor
June 12, 2015 7:01 am

It is unseemly for WUWT to publish a screed that repeatedly calls the scientific opinions and political opinions of responsible intelligent people “LIES” …. that they may be wrong, they they may be self-serving, that they may be simply band-wagoning a politically popular meme is certainly true… but very very few can be said to be intentionally lying.
Grown-ups do not throw around such language freely….Heartland should dump this guy as a spokesperson until his communication skills grow up.

Scott Saturday
June 12, 2015 12:25 pm

I’d have to politely disagree Kip. What do you call it when a scientist intentionally truncates proxy data, then splices it with real world temperature data without mentioning it when their work is published? An ‘oversight’? Even the team refers to it as ‘Mike’s Nature Trick’. Politicians are well known for lying – there is no insult there. Scientists, not so much. All the more reason that when these guys are caught manipulating data to fit the storyline, it is called out for what it is – a big fat lie.

Reply to  Scott Saturday
June 15, 2015 4:36 am

New graphic on temperature and CO2 levels over the 6 billion years of earth history. see my blog http://scientificqa.blogspot.co.uk Professor Jan Veiser. Both temperature and CO2 levels much higher than today.

Scott Saturday
Reply to  Terri Jackson
June 15, 2015 2:56 pm

err Terri? …the Earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

June 12, 2015 3:50 pm

There’s no need to be ‘sceptical’ – the IPCC is quite clear on the subject. I still believe everything the IPCC is saying – once you know where to look. Why are telling voices from the IPCC itself so widely ignored in spite of being publicly available?
Prof. Dr H. Stephen Schneider, lead author in Working Group II of the IPCC (said in 1989): “For these reasons we have to announce terrifying scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements with no mention of any doubts whatever which we might have. In order to attract attention, we need dramatic statements leaving no doubt about what is said. Every one of us researchers must decide how far he would want to be honest rather than effective.”
Research funds promptly flowed to those ‘researchers’ resulting in what must be the largest example of pure Lysenkoism ever, considering the combined multibillion-dollar research and public relations funds to achieve an unprecedented Gleichschaltung of this manufactured consensus in politics and the media.
As Schopenhauer wrote: “There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.” But the Brothers Grimm also wrote their “Die Sonne bringt es an den Tag” which idiomatically translates to “Truth will out”. Much as in the case of FIFA – which is only a storm in a teacup compared to the purely political AGW public relations smokescreen.
To leave no doubt, in an interview published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on 14 November 2010, Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, said “The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War…. one must say clearly that de facto we redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy…. One has to rid oneself of the illusion that international climate politics have anything to do with environmental concerns.”
When further prompted by Bernhard Pötter, the interviewer: „So far, when discussing foreign aid, people usually equate it with charity“, Edenhofer replied: „That will change immediately as soon as global emission rights are distributed. …“
Estimates of the carbon trading market were reported by Joanne Nova quoting Commissioner Bart Chilton, head of the energy and environmental markets advisory committee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with his prediction that “I can see carbon trading being a $2 trillion market,” which other quoted sources describe as “the largest commodity market in the world.”
Edenhofer continued: “…When that happens on a per capita basis, then Africa is the big winner, and large sums will flow there. This has enormous consequences for foreign aid policy. And, of course, the question arises whether these countries would at all be capable of using so much money wisely”.
While not the only recipient region in the world where dangers might lurk, Africa is a whole continent teeming with countries and fiefdoms where gene, meme, and resource based reasons fuel internecine power struggles, which copious large sums flowing there will only intensify while the distribution wadis would ensure that these sums never actually reach those in need.
I think it is the political climate that needs spring-cleaning.