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Video from the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, taking place in Chicago from Sunday, May 16 through Tuesday, May 18. For all video presentations as they're posted, clickhere.


Global Warming a Low PriorityAccording to a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Americans don't consider global warming to be anywhere near a top priority for President Barack Obama and Congress this year.

Since Obama's preferred approach to global warming--cap-and-trade or energy tax legislation--would destroy the nation's economy and kill jobs, it would seem pretty clear the president ought to steer clear of such policies. After what just happened on health care reform, it's unlikely the American people will tolerate being so completely ignored again.


James M. Taylor - July 29, 2010
“Global warming” is rapidly increasing Northern Hemisphere temperatures, as it does every summer, but alarmists in the media are doing their ... (read more)

Joseph Bast - July 28, 2010
Cap and trade died even before Congress shelved legislation...for now. News of the death of cap and trade last month didn't appear in the obituary section ... (read more)

James M. Taylor - July 27, 2010
The liberal media this morning is trumpeting a new study claiming global warming will cause millions of Mexicans to illegally cross the border into the ... (read more)

James M. Taylor - July 26, 2010
Speaking at a public forum Thursday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) predicted the Arctic ocean will lose all its ice within five or 10 years. Here are Kerry’s ... (read more)

James M. Taylor - July 23, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that he will not be presenting global warming legislation before the August recess, which likely kills it ... (read more)

Jim Lakely - July 22, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) conceded Thursday that the comprehensive Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-tax “climate change” bill is dead ... (read more)

James M. Taylor - July 22, 2010
This morning’s Nashville Tennessean reports that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “The Southeast is one of the most vulnerable ... (read more)

James M. Taylor - July 21, 2010
“Global warming raises water shortage risks in one-third of U.S. counties,” blares a July 20 headline in USA Today. But don’t rush to ... (read more)

James M. Taylor - July 19, 2010
Global warming activists are claiming a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that restricting carbon dioxide emissions ... (read more)

Jim Johnston - September 18, 2007
Economist Jim Johnston explains the differences between political markets, such as the one created for trading sulfur dioxide emissions, and real markets, ... (read more)

 



Books, Booklets, DVDs

Seven Theories of Climate ChangeGlobal Warming: Facts versus FaithThe Cap & Trade HandbookHeartland Institute Recommends: Power Grab
Blue Planet in Green ShacklesClimate Change ReconsideredCO2, Global Warming, and Species Extinctions: Prospects for the FutureEco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism
Energy Keepers - Energy KillersIs the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable?Journalist's Guide to Global Warming ExpertsLegislator's Guide to Global Warming Experts
MeltdownNature, Not Human Activity, Rules the ClimateThe Satanic GasesScientific Consensus on Global Warming
The Skeptic's HandbookState of FearTen Principles of Energy PolicyUnstoppable Global Warming
The Great Global Warming Swindle DVD
 

Critiques of the Field Museum's
Climate Change Exhibit

The Heartland Institute: Seven Theories of Climate Change

Heartland Policy Advisor Norm Rogers and Patrick J. Michaels of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University don't have much positive to say about the Field Museum of Chicago's new exhibit on climate change. They found the exhibit "preachy" and "alarmist," among other things.

Patrick J. Michaels

Norm Rogers


Now Playing

Fourth International Conference on Climate Change
May 16-18, 2010
Chicago, Illinois

We've posted video and audio of each speaker at the conference, as well as PowerPoint presentations and other proceedings.

Program and PowerPoint Proceedings

Video Proceedings

Audio Proceedings

Conference Schedule (summary)

Conference Schedule (detail)

Conference Program (with speaker bios and cosponsor info)


Proceedings: Third International Conference on Climate Change (June 2009 - Washington, DC)

Proceedings: Second International Conference on Climate Change (March 2009 - New York, NY)

Proceedings: First International Conference on Climate Change (March 2008 - New York, NY)


Climategate: Emails Reveal
Fraud in IPCC Reports

IPCC email scandal reveals fraud in climate reports

Emails exchanged by Phil Jones and other leading scientists who edit and control the content of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveal a conspiracy to falsify the actual temperature record and silence so-called "skeptics." Anyone who continues to cite the IPCC as representing the "consensus" on global warming is wrong. The IPCC has been totally discredited. (read more)

Heartland President Joseph Bast deems Climategate an opportunity to stop and think

 

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Climate Change Reconsidered

Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)Climate Change Reconsidered:The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change is the first and only comprehensive response to the United Nations' IPCC. For more information, go to http://www.nipccreport.org.

 

Seven Theories of
Climate Change

The Heartland Institute: Seven Theories of Climate ChangeJoseph L. Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, summarizes seven theories, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) plus six others that do not claim man-made emissions are a cuase of climate change. Each theory described in Seven Theories of Climate Change is plausible and sheds light on some aspects of climate change that were hidden or obscured by too great a focus on the AGW theory.


The Cap & Trade Handbook

The Heartland Institute: Cap & Trade HandbookJames M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute, explains in the brief, colorfully illustrated Cap & Trade Handbook that cap-and-trade legislation would be enormously costly and is entirely unnecessary. So if not cap-and-trade, what should be done about global warming? He offers five suggestions.


The Skeptic's Handbook


The Skeptic's Handbook

Rise above the mud-slinging in the global warming debate. The Skeptic's Handbook, by Australian science communicator Joanne Nova, offers the strategies and tools you need to cut through the red herrings and avoid the traps.

 

Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?


Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?

How do we know global warming is a problem if we can't trust the U.S. temperature record? In this pathbreaking report, meteorologist Anthony Watts presents the results of the first-ever comprehensive review of the quality of data coming from the National Weather Service’s network of stations.

 


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PolicyBot


PolicyBot research database

PolicyBot is a search engine and database containing nearly 4,500 studies and commentaries on environment issues--including more than 1,400 on climate change alone!--from more than 350 think tanks and advocacy groups. It’s free, fast, and comprehensive. Just click here to begin your search!

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Well Said!

"No climate scientist denies that the present state of the science entails large uncertainties in climate projections, with possible outcomes ranging from benign to catastrophic. While science works to reduce these uncertainties, citizens must decide whether and how much resource should be devoted to mitigating the uncertainly estimated risk."
Prof. Kerry Emanuel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Wall Street Journal
April 28, 2010

“By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they’ve discredited the entire climate-change movement. The political damage will be severe. As Mr. Mead succinctly puts it: ‘Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead.’ That also goes for Canada, whose climate policies are inevitably tied to those of the United States.”
Margaret Wente
The Globe and Mail
February 5, 2010

"We are witnessing the Berlin Wall moment in the global warming regime. The statist cabal that has ruled the climate debate since the UN IPCC's inception in 1988 is now tumbling down before our eyes. The so-called 'gold-standard' of scientific review turns out to be counterfeit. Global warming is now undergoing the fastest ever collapse of any modern political movement.”
Marc Morano
ClimateDepot.com

“The business of science is being skeptical, and if you’re not skeptical, you’re probably not doing science.”
Alan Carlin, Ph.D.
Scientist and Economist
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

"For those scientists who value their scientific reputations, I would advise that they distance themselves from politically motivated claims of a 'scientific consensus' on the causes of global warming -- before it is too late. Don’t let five Norwegians on the Nobel Prize committee be the arbiters of what is good science." (read more)
Roy W. Spencer
University of Alabama - Huntsville

"Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that's a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult. . . . All the evidence I see is that the current warming of the climate is just like past warmings."
William Happer
Former Chief Scientist
U.S. Department of Energy
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics
Princeton University


No Cap and Trade


Michael Crichton Was Right

Michael Crichton Is Right!

 

Best Sites and Newsletters

Science and Public Policy Institute

Climate Depot by Marc Morano

World Climate Report by Dr. Patrick Michaels

E-FACT Report by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

Global Warming Policy Foundation by Benny Peiser

Biweekly Updates from the Cooler Heads Coalition

Climate and Environment Review by the Center Science and Public Policy

Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change by Craig Idso et al.

 

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