2008 International Conference on Climate Change: Video
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Sunday, March 2, 2008
- Tim Slagle - Laughing in the Face of Impending Apocalypse
- Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D - Global Warming: Some Convenient Facts
Monday, March 3, 2008
8:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Breakfast
- Robert Balling, Ph.D. - The Increase in Global Temperature: What it Does and Does Not Tell Us
- Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. - Quantifying the Influence of Anthropogenic Surface Processes on Gridded Global Climate Data
Track 1: Paleolimatology
- Craig Idso, Ph.D. - CO2 Science’s Medieval Warm Period Project: 2008 Update
- Fred Goldberg - The Natural Source History of Atmospheric CO2 Fluctuations
- Bob Carter, Hon. FRSNZ - The Context of Modern Climate Change
Track 2: Climatology
- David Douglass, Ph.D. - Observations Regarding Climate Model Predictions
- Christopher Monckton Quantification of Climate Sensitivity
- Gerd-Rainer Weber, Ph.D. - Inconsistencies in IPCC Predictions
Track 3: Climate Change Impacts
- Dennis T. Avery - The Unintended Consequences of Biofuels as a Global Warming ‘Solution’
- S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. - The Catastrophic Impact of Global Warming Fears on Energy Policy
- J. Scott Armstrong, Ph.D. - Strengths and Weaknesses of Climate Models
Track 4: Climate Change Economics
- Julian Morris - The Role of Markets in Adapting to Climate Change
- Kendra Okonski - Droughts, Deluges and ‘Water Wars’: Managing Water for Today and Tomorrow
- Iain Murray - Assuming the Worst: A No-Regrets Approach to Global Warming
- Michael Economides, Ph.D. - Economic Shortcomings of Alternative Fuels
Track 5: Climate Change Politics
- Alexandra Bourne - The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States
- Daniel Simmons - Global Warming Legislation in the States
- Todd Myers - The Difference Between Scientists and Policymakers: What the Science Doesn’t Say About Climate Policy
- Myron Ebell, M.Sc. - The Alarmist Consensus: Global Warming Is Not a Crisis
Monday, March 3, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Track 1: Paleoclimatology
- Willie Soon, Ph.D. - An Overview of Global Warming Science
- Howard Hayden- The Overstated Role of Carbon Dioxide on Climate Change
- Craig Loehle, Ph.D. - A 2000-Year Temperature Reconstruction Based on Non Tree-Ring Proxies
Track 2: Climatology
- James J. O’Brien, Ph.D. - The Truth about Climate Change in Florida
- Yuri Izrael - Future Climate Is No Reason for Alarm
Track 3: Climate Change Impacts
- Paul Reiter, Ph.D. - Climate Change and Vector Illnesses
- John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. - Human Health Effects of Global Warming
- Mitch Taylor, Ph.D. - Ecological and Demographic Perspectives on the Status of Polar Bears
Track 4: Climate Change Economics
- Andrei Illarionov
- Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. - The Environment in Economic and Historical Perspective
- David G. Tuerck, Ph.D. - An Economic Critique of Greenhouse Gas Legislation in the States
Track 5: Climate Change Politics
- H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. - Precaution and Managing Future Risk in Climate Change
- Donald Hertzmark, Ph.D. - The Failure of the Kyoto Protocol to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. - Climate Change Realism Goes International
- Vincent Gray, Ph.D. - The International Agenda on Climate Change
Monday, March 3, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Keynotes
- Tim Ball, Ph.D.
- S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. - The NIPCC Report: Nature, not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
Monday, March 3, 2008
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Track 1: Paleoclimatology
- Joseph D’Aleo - Solar Irradiance and Oceans are the True Drivers of Climate Change
- John Coleman - A Meteorological Perspective on Global Warming
Track 2: Climatology
- George H. Taylor - Long-Term Variability in Temperature and Precipitation
- David Archibald - The Solar Cycle Length – Temperature Relationship in US Climate Records and the Implications of Solar Cycle 24
Track 3: Climate Change Impacts
- William M. Briggs, Ph.D. - Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Storms
- Madhav Khandekar, Ph.D. - Global Warming & Extreme Weather: No Discernible Link
- Joel Schwartz - Studies of Future Air Pollution in a Changing Climate
Track 4: Climate Change Economics
- Roy Innis - Defending Civil Rights: Proposed Climate Change Prevention Laws Would Roll Back Civil Rights Progress
- Thomas Tanton - Lessons Learned from the California Experience
- Ann McElhinney - The Real Politics Behind Global Warming: The Redistribution of Wealth
Track 5: Climate Change Politics
- David Henderson - Climate Change Issues: The Case Against Received Opinion
- John A. Charles, Jr. - The Myth of Local Compliance with Kyoto: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon
- Steven J. Milloy, J.D., M.L. - How to Stop Climate Change Legislation in the U.S.
- Paul Chesser - The Deceptive Agenda of Center for Climate Strategies in the State Legislatures
Monday, March 3, 2008
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Track 1: Paleolimatology
- David Legates, Ph.D. - Global Warming and the Hydrologic Cycle
- Tim Patterson, Ph.D. - Cosmoclimatological Forcing as a Possible Driver of Cyclic Holocene Climate and Marine Productivity in the Northeast Pacific
- Richard S. Courtney, DipPhil. - Ice Core Records and the Reconstruction of Atmospheric CO2 Levels
Track 2: Climatology
- Kesten C. Green, Ph.D. - Scientific Forecasting and Climate Change
- Anthony Watts - A Hands-On Study of Station Siting and Data Quality Issues for the United States Historical Climatology Network
Track 3: Climate Change Impacts
- Stan Goldenberg - The Mythical Link between Hurricanes and Global Warming
- Benny Peiser, Ph.D. - Societal Evolution and the Rise of a Climate-Proof Planetary Civilisation
Track 4: Climate Change Economics
- Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Ph.D. - Lessons Learned from Enron’s Failed ‘Green’ Energy Policy
- Barun S. Mitra - Climate Change Legislation: The Poor Pay Today, The Rich Gain Tomorrow
- Robert Murphy, Ph.D. - The Uneasy Case for Carbon Pricing
- Kenneth P. Green - The Perils of Cap and Trade
Track 5: Climate Change Politics Roundtable
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
7:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
- William M. Gray, Ph.D. - Oceans, Not Carbon Dioxide, Are Driving Climate
- Vaclav Klaus, Ph.D. - We Should Not Make Big Mistakes over Climate Change
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
8:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Track 2: Climatology
- Richard S. Courtney, DipPhil. - Limits to Existing Quantitative Understanding of Past, Present and Future Changes to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration
- Andreas Prokoph, Ph.D. - Urban Heat Island Effect on Temperature Trends in Eastern Ontario, Canada
- Paul Waggoner, Ph.D. - Returning Forests Under a Cloud of Biofuel Smoke
Track 3: Climate Change Impacts
- Paul Driessen, J.D. - A Human Rights Travesty: Perpetuating Poverty, Disease, and Death to Prevent Speculative Climate Change Chaos
- Jim Martin - Global Warming: Where's the Beef?
- Rob Gordon
Track 4: Climate Change Economics
- Ken Malloy, J.D. - The Need for a Coherent Market Oriented Energy Policy
- Douglas Southgate, Ph.D. - Global Warming, Free Markets, Agriculture and Forestry
- Leon Louw - The Negative Impacts of Climate Change Legislation on Africa’s Most Impoverished People
- Russell Seitz - Coal Power Not at Odds with Reducing Carbon Emissions
Track 5: Climate Change Politics
- Marlo Lewis, Jr., Ph.D. - The Economic and Regulatory Perils of Massachusetts v. EPA
- Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. - Global Warming Politics and Lessons from the Nuclear Industry
- Marc Morano
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
10:30 - 12:00 noon
Track 2: Climatology
- Jay Lehr, Ph.D.
- Ferenc Miskolczi - Physics of the Planetary Greenhouse Effect
- Miklos Zagoni, Dr. - Paleoclimatic Consequences of Dr. Miskolczi’s Greenhouse Theory
Track 3: Climate Change Impacts
- Howard Maccabee, Ph.D., M.D. - Health Benefits of Moderate Climate Warming
- David W. Schnare, Esq., Ph.D. - Climate Change and the Uncomfortable Middle Ground: The Geoengineering and “No Regrets” Policy Alternative
Track 4: Climate Change Economics
- Roy Cordato, Ph.D. - Cap and Trade, Carbon Taxes, and the Myth of Efficient CO2 Reduction
- Jim Johnston - Carbon Taxes vs. Cap-and-Trade Systems
- Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D. - Global Warming and Economic Sense
Track 5: Climate Change Politics
- E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. - Scientific Orthodoxies, Politicized Science, and Catastrophic Manmade Warming: Challenges to Evangelicals Navigating Rough Waters in Science and Policy
- Ronald J. Rychlak, J.D. - Understanding Visual Exhibits in the Global Warming Debate
- Owen McShane - Climate Change: The Last Gasp of Smart Growth
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Keynotes and Closing Remarks
- Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. - Recent Evidence for Reduced Climate Sensitivity
- John Stossel - Freedom and Its Enemies
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