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Heartland Institute's "anti-global warming" conference

2009-01-31 02:01 PM

Frank K
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 26

The Heartland Institute is sponsoring the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change, March 8-10 in New York City. They are advertizing that participants will include economists, legal experts, and other climate specialists calling attention to new research that contradicts claims that Earth’s moderate warming during the 20th Century primarily was man-made and has reached crisis proportions. They expect to draw 1,000 attendees including private-sector business people, state and federal legislators and officials, policy analysts, media, and students.

The Heartland website lists "anti-global warming" speakers and their credetials including William Gray, Colorado State University, leading researcher into tropical weather patterns; Richard Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world’s leading experts in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves; Stephen McIntyre, primary author of Climate Audit, a blog devoted to the analysis and discussion of climate data; Arthur Robinson, curator of a global warming petition signed by more than 32,000 American scientists, including more than 10,000 with doctorate degrees, rejecting the alarmist assertion that global warming has put the Earth in crisis and is caused primarily by mankind; Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville, principal research scientist and team leader on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Does anyone know if the Heartland Institute and these speakers have any scientific backing from credible climatologists?