It’s BACK! The 16th International Conference on Climate Change

The 16th International Conference on Climate Change, organized by The Heartland Institute, will be held April 8-9, 2026 at the Hotel Washington in Washington, DC. It will feature the world’s leading scientists, energy experts, and those making policy in the second Trump administration.

The only climate conference dedicated to the examination of data rather than the propagation of dogma is back! Regular Climate Realism writers, Anthony, Linnea, and Sterling, will be there as speakers and moderators, plus, given how close the venue is to the White House, President Trump has been invited.

Although the program is still coming together, Heartland is planning six plenary sessions and 14 panel presentations – with two concurrent tracks – featuring some 40 speakers.

Space for attendees is limited, so GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! This special “early bird” rate ends on January 31.

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strativarius

January 6, 2026 7:05 am

So, no [Amazonian] trees were felled to make a highway to Hotel Washington in Washington, DC

And toilet paper will not be banned…

UN demands no toilet paper in toilets! Urges delegates ‘not to flush toilet paper…in the toilets at the COP 30 venue …Please use the bins provided for disposal’

There will be no emotional outbursts and disturbances…

Indigenous protesters on Wednesday defended charging the gates of Brazil’s COP30 climate summit and clashing with security a day earlier, saying the action was aimed at demonstrating the desperation of their fight for forest protection.

That’s the benefit of separating science from politics and political handouts based on a non crisis.

Joseph Zorzin

Reply to strativarius

January 6, 2026 8:10 am

Who gets the fun job of emptying the bins? 🙂

JonasM

Reply to Joseph Zorzin

January 6, 2026 8:51 am

Same people who do it in Greece.
I learned during a recent visit that much of Greece has sanitary plumbing using 1″ or 1 1/2″ pipes rather than the more usual 2″ that we use here. Thus the restrictions. It was not fun.
COP30 location had the same issue, so I assume their cleaning people were used to it.
Yuck.

bnice2000

Reply to JonasM

January 6, 2026 12:53 pm

“the more usual 2″ that we use here”

Being Aussies.. we use 4″ pipes 😉

bnice2000

Reply to Joseph Zorzin

January 6, 2026 12:59 pm

Bet they didn’t use plastic bin bags, either. !!

Sparta Nova 4

January 6, 2026 8:01 am

Story tip (somewhat off topic)

Second front: How a socialist cell in the US mobilized pro-Maduro foot soldiers within 12 hours
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-front-how-socialist-cell-us-mobilized-pro-maduro-foot-soldiers-within-12-hours

The article gives a minute by minute timeline of actions and events all coordinated for maximum effect.

One has to wonder if this same network of professional protesters (I am being kind) will descend on the upcoming conference or how many “Just Stop Oil” protests will appear in 100+ cities all coordinated.

The protests today, he warned, “are a harbinger of what’s coming.”

Joseph Zorzin

Reply to Sparta Nova 4

January 6, 2026 8:12 am

12 hours? Gotta do much better than that! More like 12 minutes.

Sparta Nova 4

Reply to Joseph Zorzin

January 6, 2026 8:29 am

Some of the people had to get up in the middle of the night, shower, dress, eat, then travel to the protest site. So there is that.

Also, if one looks at the times for the protests, most of the first day protests were set for maximum coverage, which would be 10-12 hours after the call to arms was initiated.

https://www.answercoalition.org/venezuela
List of protest locations and times

2hotel9

Reply to Sparta Nova 4

January 6, 2026 9:29 am

Checked them out, appear to be weekend protests only, scrolled through posts and Saturday/Sunday is quite prominent.

Sparta Nova 4

Reply to 2hotel9

January 6, 2026 12:20 pm

Honestly I did not look at the days, only the time of day.

bnice2000

Reply to Sparta Nova 4

January 6, 2026 12:56 pm

What makes you think they “showered” ??

Sparta Nova 4

Reply to bnice2000

January 7, 2026 9:41 am

Good question. I have no answer.

2hotel9

Reply to Sparta Nova 4

January 6, 2026 9:23 am

Video and photograph all of these enemies and identify them to the entire world, shine the light on these cockroaches and their organizers and financiers.

Harold Pierce

January 6, 2026 9:08 am

This conference is waste of money and time because there is no such phenomena such as “climate change”. Most of the earth’s uninhabited climates are mostly water, rocks, sand, soil, ice and snow. Activities of humans will have no effects on the vast Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, the Andes, Alps, Rocky and Himalaya mountains, or the Sahara, Gobi, Atacama and Mojave deserts.

The climates of oceans under the surface should include studies and surveys of the various geophysical features, all the plants and animals, currents, volcanoes and thermal vents, etc.

Activities of humans can effect local climates of cities due to the UHI effect. In some countries the stripping of the land of plants for food and feed for animal has resulted in desertification, which will probably be a topic for discussion.

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Sparta Nova 4

Reply to Harold Pierce

January 6, 2026 12:26 pm

This conference is waste of money and time because there is no such phenomena such as “climate change”.

I respectfully disagree. The many climates of earth change all the time and have throughout history.

“The only climate conference dedicated to the examination of data rather than the propagation of dogma”

It needs to be done. We need to put the “AGW” and “Climate Crisis” into the history books and the only way to do that is with science.

Otherwise the results will be akin to Iran.

2hotel9

January 6, 2026 9:31 am

Retirees?!?! Time to go “tour” some landmarks in various cities and video/photograph some “gatherings” nearby. Time to build a database and make social media work for America for a change.

Joseph Zorzin

January 6, 2026 11:02 am

Wow, I’d love to attend but not sure if I can afford it. Hotels in the DC area are expensive. Last time I was in DC was— uh… in 1974. I’ve been wanting to go back to see the Smithsonian, etc. in the city, and side trips to Washington and Jefferson’s homes. I can get there by Amtrak from here in Wokeachusetts. Somebody told me that there are some decent hotels just outside DC and within easy walking distance to the subway into DC but they didn’t give me the names of those hotels. Some people warned me to avoid hotels in DC. If anyone has any hotel suggestions, let me know- then I’ll call them and see what it would cost/night. Maybe they have discounts for geezers. 🙂

Joseph Zorzin

Reply to Joseph Zorzin

January 6, 2026 11:05 am

Now that I just read the article as I should have before- I presume many will stay at the hotel where the event is held. I suspect that’ll be very expensive. I’ve never gone to such a conference ever- maybe people attending such a conference at a hotel get a discount to stay there?

Sparta Nova 4

Reply to Joseph Zorzin

January 6, 2026 12:38 pm

Hotel Washington: $250 per night for a standard room.

No clue if there is a discount.

Try the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Just across the beltway in Maryland.
0.2 miles from Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan station (metro rail).

Google Maps will give you other options.
The further from D.C., the less expensive.

Might want to look in the vicinity of Baltimore, but be sure to be close to a metro rail station.

KevinM

January 6, 2026 11:24 am

Bags of rainforest woodchips for smoking brisket would be a fun door giveaway. For barbeque that tastes fresh from the Amazon.

Bob

January 6, 2026 1:44 pm

Good luck to you guys. Concentrate on informing the average guy that CO2 can’t cause catastrophic runaway global warming, that fossil fuels and nuclear are the clear choice for power generation, that wind and solar can’t support the grid or a modern society, that wind and solar are painfully expensive, that CO2 is critical for life as we know it on earth and that pre industrial levels of CO2 were conerningly low. We don’t give a damn about Michael Mann and his kind and shouldn’t waste our time trying to show them they are wrong.

Edward Katz

January 6, 2026 5:42 pm

AS I’ve already said on this site few weeks ago, I’m curious to see how much coverage that this conference and its revelations get in the mainstream media. It’s a safe bet that there won’t be much, and any information that refutes the climate alarmism narrative will be carefully suppressed or omitted entirely.

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