By the time you read this, I’ll probably already be there, but I’m “Goin’ to Chicago” for the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Conference on Climate Change.
That link to the famous blues song is to the classic Jimmy Rushing/Count Basie version, but maybe it should have new lyrics: “Goin’ to Chicago…. Sorry but I can’t take Al!”
Yes, this is largely a climate skeptics’ event. Not that Al couldn’t have come. A long list of notable climate “alarmists” – among them Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Phil Jones and William Schlesinger – were invited to the Chicago conference, yet declined. Are they “runnin’ scared,” as they used to say in New York City politics? Or maybe Al was too busy fixing up his new nearly nine-million dollar ocean-view manse in Montecito. When you have nine bathrooms, that’s a lot of plumbing to check… and carbon credits to be exchanged.
But not to worry. PJTV and PJM will be there. Starting Sunday evening, we will be live streaming the keynote addresses to the Internet here. And Heartland has lined up some speakers we thought would be quite worth bringing to you live: They include former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the man who started it all – ClimateAudit’s Steve McIntyre, Cato’s Patrick Michaels, former Virginia governor and energy activist George Allen, MIT’s brilliant meteorologist Richard Lindzen, Heartland’s climate director Jay Lehr, former NASA scientist and author Roy Spencer, and last but not least, frequent PJM contributor Lord Christopher Monckton (who needs no introduction).
The times (subject to change) of these keynotes are available at the new PJTV CLIMATEGATE 2010 MICROSITE. This microsite is the same URL at which you can view the streamed speeches themselves. Also available at the site are other PJTV videos and PJM articles on the subject.
We will also be doing our own interviews of the scientists, economists, policy experts and bloggers at the conference, who constitute something of a who’s who of the skeptics’ movement. These interviews will also be available at the microsite, although some will be for subscribers only. It is PJTV/PJM’s aim to be a kind of place-of-record for ClimateGate, although we bow deeply to such blogs as Watts Up With That that have done such important work in the area. I’m not even beginning to mention everyone I think has contributed, because I don’t want to forget anyone. But if they are at the conference, we would be pleased to interview them. And give full credit where due.
Because the fight for an honest scientific evaluation of climate may only be beginning. As they say in The Godfather, just when you think you’re out, they pull you back in. And now it’s John Kerry and (be still) Joe Lieberman doing the pulling with re-upped cap-and-trade legislation coming before Congress, legislation that will have a powerful effect on the city holding the conference, home of the curiously-connected Chicago Climate Exchange.
PJTV and PJM will be checking into the CCX too. So maybe I should be revising those lyrics one more time. I’ll be “Goin’ to Chicago… Sorry but I can’t cash in.”
One more reminder – all our video coverage (streaming and otherwise) will be at the PJTV CLIMATEGATE 2010 MICROSITE. Join us for the fun. Who knows… Al may return that Oscar yet!
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PJTV/PJM crew for Chicago: Richard Pollock (Washington Bureau Chief), Charles Martin (Science & Technology Editor), Libor Janicek (camera), Andrew Bridgewater (camera), Hahn Choi (technical director), Tom Kise (public relations)
Thank you. I hope there will be some good, solid technical discussion of the data, its manipulations, and specific claims. The San Diego Union-Tribune at least is still publishing news articles that assume that there is a consensus among scientists that global warming is occurring and that it is largely man-made. This remains the position taken by the various Scripps institutes and exhibits, which notably tend to stop their information sets so that the data from the last decade are not included.
In particular, if you will publish really solid, clear, concise expositions of the information that I know is available, I will bring it to the attention of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, which has an outdated exhibit at the Birch Aquarium.
CAGWists manifestly act in bad faith, under false pretensions. Theirs is not an objective, rational endeavor but an ideological coup de main by Luddite sociopaths espousing “pastoralization,” the explicit end of post-Enlightenment industrial/technological civilization in favor of an etiolated intellectoid regime comprised of peculating Commissars and Gauleiters of every Green Gang stripe.
Debate disinterested scientific findings– what are you, Enemies of the People? All hail Albert the Gore: Baal knows best.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Global-Warming-Blunder-Scientists/dp/1594033730/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273936242&sr=1-1
Some clear thinking from Dr Roy Spencer. The only real deniers are those that deny Mother Nature’s role in Climate Change. Hopefully, Roy Spencer will be to Climate as my hero, Ward Connerly, is to Higher Education.
Roger, can you send an especial invitation to my two Senator’s Boxer and Feinstein, both believe that the earth is burning up and will soon have all the water boil off the surface of the planet or so they say. Most likely like a fellow Senator Al Gore, they have a huge investment in ventures that will allow them also to buy a $9 or $10 million dollar houses next to Al’s. In the last 100 years this same scam has been tried both ways warming and freezing, doesn’t matter to the scammers if they are the ones in the position to push it; they make money. You don’t need to fool all the people, just a high percentage like Al has done to make billions; Obama’s Socialism is in that same category, even bigger money and power in Obama’s not so hidden agenda.
Feinstein and Boxer already have 9 million dollar houses so they don’t need the money. As long as they keep directing government subsidies and tax breaks to their husbands, they are in good shape.
In Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature, two Climategate scientists make their mea culpa for Climategate… kind of. The DOI link is http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/465158a and because their opinion column is subscriber-only right now, I blurbed out some paragraphs of it onto my XContra web log.
The two scientists are Peter Stott and Peter Thorne. If you have read any of the Climategate emails, you will see their names a lot. They are not the big names like Phil “Transparency” Jones or Michael “Stanley Cup” Mann, but are probably one rank below that.
Interesting opinion column. Try to read it.
Frankly, I prefer the Led Zeppelin version of the paean to my old stomping grounds. Enjoy Chicago and the conference!
Roger,
As you know, big claim of wamrists is that modern temperatures are “unprecenedented.” There have been hundreds of peer-research studies done debunking that claim and here is a site that has graphs from many of those studies:
http://www.c3headlines.com/temperature-charts-historical-proxies.html
Safe journey!
Humorous cartoon about Chicago and Obama at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/made-in-chicago/
No wonder it’s so cold here right now – they’re having a climate-change conference!
Bring your sweaters and longjohns.
Aah, Mr. Simon, just to clue you in, the Europeons may give lip service to AGW,but they like us prefer servival to propaganda. Dude it’s over.
Ah Fatwah, just to clue you in, Simon does not go to Chicago to praise AGW, he goes there to bury it.
It’s much MUCH worse than just the Chicago scammers.
The use of forestry to create primary credits is not only a fake science scam of the first order allowing essentially the creation of a new form of fiat currency that people will flee to after the engineered collapse of the western alliance’s monetary system, but also the use of forestry in the third world, if not controlled by the third world countries themselves- and few are strong enough to resist this new form of imperialistic colonialism- will guarantee the north-south cultural and military divide forever, and destroy any possibility of true freedom for the world’s poorest people. I’d have to write a book-length post to get into it, but take it from an insider. Not. Good.
write the post…I think I know where you’re going with it. I fear you’re right
Roger, you’re heading for my old stomping grounds. If you have a chance, may I recommend that you stop in at “Su Casa” 49 E. Ontario either for lunch, or dinner, or just a Dos Equis or Marguerite and get a taste of Umberto’s (the owner’s) finest. Have a good one.
Extremely impress line up of speakers. It’s comforting to know that despite the massive conditioning campaign of fraud over the past decade by seemingly respectable movers and shakers in the scientific and political areanas, there still exists brave, dignified and not-so lone voices in the wilderness who value integrity and truth over contrived accepted wisdom and the bully tactics of illiberal and dangerously broken human beings.
Historic push back that makes me hopeful for future generations.
Art Robinson will be speaking there…
http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/speakers.html
He’s long written Access to Energy and is a hell-of-a-guy.
He’s running for Congress to unseat DeFazio (OR)
http://artrobinsonforcongress.com
Roger, contact me and I will put you in touch with the Climate Exchange people in Chicago.
Hmmm…I wonder if Naomi aoreskes was invited; I caught her on CSPAN awhile ago, hawking her book, re:”Merchants of Doubt”. I’m sure she would have _jumped_ at the chance…(sigh)
Just a note about the “O’Hare” room. Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare was a navy ace in WWII who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his action in defense of his carrier, Lexington, in Feb. 1942. He returned to duty and on Nov. 26, 1943, disappeared during an experimental night fight against Japanese “Bettys”. His was the first naval MOH in WWII.
MAIS UMA CONFERENCIA QUE NÃO VAI RESOLVER NADA.
For a climate conference? I thought people went to Chicago for a “How to get on Welfare” conference.
Memorial Day 2010
Our president may not have enough of a sense of tradition to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day but the rest of us commoners can still honor that day on Monday.
As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day 2010, a day that has become synonymous with nothing more than the launching of summer, let’s try to remember what it’s all about.
Originally called Decoration Day, the holiday dates to 1868 and is intended to remind us all of those who gave their all in service to this great nation. It is especially meaningful, or should be, during wartime while our men and women are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, vacation time in his adopted city of Chicago is more important to Barack Hussein Obama than bothering himself with . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1704)