Many symposium goers requested we post the presentations from the speakers. As promised,
David Strom’s presentation on the EU Climate Trading Scheme can be found here.
Bruce Sayler’s, “The Customer’s Voice” can be found here.
Carolyn Sampson’s “The Cost of Climate Change” can be found here.
Bill Glahn’s post on nuclear power can be found here.
Paul Knappenberger’s “Observations vs. Models” can be found here.
*Note: You will need Microsoft Powerpoint to view the presentations, you can download a free viewer here.
This is just a start, more to come. Stay tuned.
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I was very pleased with this event from every angle: high quality science, presentation of most of the major factors related to climate, a calm look at evidence, no discourtesy or disruptions, open and fair question and answers, a relatively graceful handling of extreme political influence which has caused premature claims of consensus around the danger of warming, and accurate portrayal of the fact that the most severe suggested CO2 reductions for the USA (which would wreck our economy and job market) would in fact make truly negligible changes in any presumed “global warming” over the next century. (This is true even using the ‘very imperfect’ IPCC assumptions and calculations.)
There is also the serious danger that we are starting to fight ‘warming’ just as the last 8 to 11 years of dropping temperatures (and unusual lack of solar surface activity) are suggesting a high probability of ‘cooling’ ahead – with far higher dangers for all earthly life.
Taking a calm look at this information allows one to see the false assumptions in news coverage. Example: in the paper this morning some investigators claimed they must rush to dig up old human evidences along the coastline since the rapid rise of water (due to warming?) will cover the sites soon! But we know for sure that the ocean level has NOT yet begun to rise in any provable sustained or significant way, and even the alarmist IPCC has been forced (in 2007) to reduce their predictions to between 7 and 22 inches in the next 91 years – not the 20 feet sometimes feared in “urban legend”.
Yes, I supported having this symposium in Minneapolis. We all have some bias or another. But after speaking with me or others who supported this, made presentations, or simply attended, I hope anyone would at least be aware that many of us have good scientific minds, are very well informed, have good basic motives, and should at least be listened to without cynicism or anger. Bravo, MN Free Market Institute!