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These folks should no longer be labeled skeptics, but instead climate realists

Climate Change 'Realists” Meet in Las Vegas



You've heard about carbon dioxide and its effect on temperature world-wide. But have you heard that temperature increases first, then hundreds or more years later carbon dioxide levels rise? My guess is probably not. Also, there have been periods when atmospheric CO2 levels were as much as 16 times higher than they are now—periods characterized not by warming, but by glaciations.
What about temperature measurements? When the Soviet Union was falling apart from 1989 to 1992 folks there didn't much care about keeping temperature monitoring stations. Thousands wee closed and it's important to note that many of these were in cold regions. Others around the world closed at the same time. Could this have helped making the decade that followed the 'hottest decade' ever? Only about 1/3 of the globe is sampled. And speaking about temperature measurements, data from hundreds of weather stations located around the US appear to show the planet is getting warmer, but some critics say it's the government books that are getting cooked—thanks to temperature readings from sweltering parking lots, airports, and other locations that distort the true state of the climate.

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Indeed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed some 600 out of nearly 9,000 weather stations over the past two years that it has deemed problematic or unnecessary, after a long campaign by Anthony Watts and his crew of volunteers highlighting the problems of using unreliable data. But for the media, this is probably too little, too late. Watts says that 1/2 of the US weather signal is due to poor stations. In spite of all this, there has been no warming in the Earth's average annual temperature for almost 18 years. This in spite of the scare tactics promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Then there's the sun. Mostly all (99.98%) of the Earth's energy comes form the sun, only 0.02% from internal sources. Yet the IPCC says the sun has hardly any effect on climate change. There are a multitude of peer-reviewed scientific reports in the literature in recent years that contradict the IPCC stand. All of this information and much more was covered at the 9th International Conference on Climate Change hosted by the Heartland Institute and 32 co-sponsoring organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 7-9. There were 650 attendees, and 64 speakers from 12 countries. About 80% of the attendees were first-timers, so this wasn't a meeting where the same crowd was gathering for a repeat performance and just talking to one another. The fact that so many new attendees were present indicates that interest continues to grow for information on 'the rest of the story' about climate change, and the same can be said for Europe. A similar conference was held in Europe in April. The 7th Climate Conference featuring distinguished non-alarmist scientists and organized by the European Institute for Climate and Energy took place in Mannheim, Germany. The 2-day conference delivered the message that today's climate science tells us there really isn't much to be alarmed about. CO2 is nowhere near the big driver the media and government-funded scientists make it out to be. The conference room was large enough to accommodate an audience of 100 people, yet 130 specialists in various fields jammed inside. Pierre Gosselin reports, “Instead of delivering vivid pictures of doom and gloom scenarios like the IPCC does, the dissident scientists came to tell the world that there really isn't a man-made climate problem and that the real problem is the man-made climate science disaster. For years, the IPCC has been giving the public a distorted and manipulated picture of our climate. The non-irrational scientists at the conference showed the data to back it up.” Gosselin adds, “Year by year interest in other views in the climate debate and explanations as to why global temperatures refuse to rise has been growing among the public in Germany and Europe.” (1) Gosselin could have written the exact same words about the conference in Las Vegas. My only complaint as an attendee in Las Vegas was that there were often three concurrent break-out sessions. I missed many speakers I would have like to have heard. Fortunately, all of the talks can be seen 'live' by going here. This conference coincided with the release of the fourth and fifth volumes of the Climate Change Reconsidered series by the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (NIPCC). What is the NIPCC? It's what the name suggests: an international panel of nongovernmental scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. Since they are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, they are able to look at evidence the IPCC ignores. Since they do not work for any governments, they are not biased toward the assumption that greater government activity is necessary. In June 2009, the first full NIPCC report was published by The Heartland Institute. The recent report, some 880 pages in length, is the most comprehensive critique of the IPCC's position ever published. It lists 35 contributors and reviewers from 14 countries and presents in an appendix the names of 31,478 scientists who have signed a petition saying 'there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.' Visit ClimateChangeReconsidered for an extensive background on NIPCC reports. Although some of the folks at the conference have been labeled Holocaust deniers, skeptics, and other foul-sounding names, these were serious scientists with data that should be more open to the public. A long time ago Jay Lehr stated these folks should no longer be labeled skeptics, but instead called 'Realists.' I couldn't agree more. Jack Dini Livermore, CA References 1. Pierre Gosselin, “7th international Non-Alarmist Climate Conference Sells Out! Yet Not a Single German Media Outlet Shows Up,” notrickszone.com, April 23, 2014


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Jack Dini is author of Challenging Environmental Mythology.  He has also written for American Council on Science and Health, Environment & Climate News, and Hawaii Reporter.


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