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Sunday, March 2, 2008

• Joseph L. Bast - Opening Remarks
• 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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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

• Alan Moran - Economic Implications of Climate Change Measures
• 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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Questions & Answers
• Announcement by Lord Christopher Monckton

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
• Art Horn - The Science and Politics of Global Warming
• 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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q & A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q & A

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
• Panel Q&A

Track 5: Climate Change Politics Roundtable

• Moderator: Dan Gainor
• Patrick J. Michaels
• Phelim McAleer
• Marc Morano
• Christopher C. Horner, J.D.

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
• Announcement by Tom Harris

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Panel Q&A

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
• Piers Corbyn - What Does and Does Not Cause Climate Change?
• Panel Q&A

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
• Mike Jungbauer
• Panel Q&A

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
• Carlo Stagnaro

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
• Matthew Sinclair
• Panel Q&A

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Keynotes and Closing Remarks

• Joseph Bast
• Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. - Recent Evidence for Reduced Climate Sensitivity
• John Stossel - Freedom and Its Enemies
• James M. Taylor