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The Third International Conference on Climate Change took place June 2nd in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Heartland Institute.
The conference featured speakers such as Patrick Michaels, PH.D. Cato Institute's Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Hon. Harrison Schmitt, PH.D. Former US Senator and NASA Astronaut, current Chairman NASA Advisory Council, Adjunct Professor of Engineering Physics, UW-Madison, S. Fred Singer, PH.D., Science and Environmental Policy Project, Roy W. Spencer, PH.D., Principal Research Scientist, Univ. of Alabama, among many others.
The premise of the conference was to discuss the report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) titled Climate Change Reconsidered - among other subjects concerning climate change. The NIPCC's report is a direct rebuttal to the IPCC's report on Global Warming.
Some of the issues discussed included Fred Singer's conclusion that the science in climate change is not settled. Fred Singer is the president of the Science and Environmental Policy project and published the 800 page report. He wrote the report with a scientist's view and research rather than a politician's, as the IPCC's often is accused of.
Harvard astronomer Willie Soon, offered his research results in solar activity's role in Earth's climate. He also asserted that carbon dioxide is food for plants and marine life and not a pollutant. Soon also focused on removing politics from science, which he claims is a big challenge these days because of the way that government has implemented so many regulations based on climate change.
Soon also emphasizes that much has been done to progress his research in sun-induced climate change, which is proving to be quite a plausible answer. He is also questioning the effects of carbon dioxide, which have increasingly been proven to not affect climate in the way that was predicted by many computer weather models. The climate is rising much slower compared to the rate of CO2 increase.
Soon asks an important question: What happens if we find out carbon dioxide is not a pollutant that has significant effects on global temperature and once we spend trillions of dollars to regulate it, it disrupts the CO2 vital for plant and marine life? He warns it could be an ecological disaster. - Nick Loris, Global Warming Conference: The Science of Climate Change
Another speaker of note was former astronaut Harrison Schmidt, who was one of the most recent Americans to walk on the moon. He is an Earth scientist and former Congressman. Schmidt believes that CO2 regulations will give way to one of the biggest liberty losses in the country up to date. By regulating all sources of CO2, the government will force people to change all aspects of their behavior and consumer choice to an unimaginable degree.
With as many unknowns and unproven science on the correlation between CO2 and climate change, there needs to be much more research done before our government starts to regulate our lives to the point of violating the freedoms this country was founded on.
For more articles on global warming see: EPA Memo from the OMB: CO2 not a pollutant, Global warming and climate change: facts and hype, Obama looking at radical means to stop global warming, A quiet sun could start global cooling,
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