Guess why. Yes, you're right. Covid-19. Not that the rest of us would miss it, but we have to observe where the most savage Denialists have gone, now that the Oil and Gaslighters have thrown coal under the bus, and Cato has disbanded its Denialism operation.
14th International Conference on Climate Change - Heartland Institute
The 14th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-14) will take place Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, this conference has been POSTPONED.
The Heartland Institute will announce a new date soon.
13th International Conference on Climate Change - Heartland Institute
Join us for a conference with the theme ‘Best Science, Winning Energy Policies’ at the Trump International Hotel.
How about 'Unclear on the concept, Cognitive Dissonance to the Max'?
Grokking Republicans: Cognitive Dissonance
The Heartland Institute, globally considered the leading [group]think tank promoting skepticism of the theory there is a human-caused climate crisis, is [not, as it turns out] hosting its 13th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-13) on July 25, 2019, in Washington, DC. The one-day conference, held at the Trump International Hotel, will include three keynote sessions and four breakout panels.
The conference will feature the courageous men and women who spoke the truth about climate change during the height of the global warming scare. Now, many of them are advising the new administration or joining it in senior positions. (Some of them are among the more than 200 speakers at Heartland’s previous 12 conferences.)
Admission: $129, includes all meals and sessions.
Climate realists have established, beyond a reasonable doubt, the human impact on climate is likely very small and beneficial, not harmful. Realists have proven that most scientists now share this opinion, except those who have made careers out of finding a human impact and exaggerating it. [That is, all of us.]
Speakers at ICCC-13 will summarize the best available climate science and recommend which policy changes are needed for America to lead a post-alarmist world in climate realism. The conference will also feature timely, in-depth, expert discussions about the “Green New Deal” and the benefits of ending the Democrats’ war on fossil
fuels[Fools].
The original book that inspired this and other paintings is also excellent. The Ship of Fools
The concept makes up the framework of the 15th-century book Ship of Fools (1494) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Hieronymus Bosch's painting, Ship of Fools: a ship—an entire fleet at first—sets off from Basel, bound for the Paradise of Fools. In it, Brant conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. In literary and artistic compositions of the 15th and 16th centuries, the cultural motif of the ship of fools also served to parody the "ark of salvation", as the Catholic Church was styled.[citation needed]
Confirmed speakers:
- Dominik Kolorz, chairman of the board of the Śląsko-Dąbrowski Region of Polish Solidarity;
The Solidarity-Heartland statement adds that “neither organisation opposes
the goal of clean air nor supports the elimination of coal from the world’s energy portfolio” and calls on “an end to the war on science and scientists by powerful state-backed forces”.
- Myron Ebell, head of the Cooler Heads Coalition and Trump’s EPA transition team;
Myron Ebell is director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Ebell also chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which comprises representatives from more than two dozen non-profit organizations based in the United States and abroad that challenge global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.
- David Legates, Ph.D., climatologist at the University of Delaware;
Legates and [Willie Soon] have authored numerous papers together, including a controversial 2007 “polar bear study” that was partially funded by Koch Industries. Legates was the co-author on four of the 11 papers that Soon received fossil fuel funding for – and failed to disclose in the paper. [24], [25] Legates maintains affiliations with numerous conservative think tanks that oppose climate change regulation or are skeptical of man-made global warming, including the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) where he has been an “Adjunct Scholar” and “Environmental Expert.”[11], [12]
- Roy Spencer, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Huntsville;
Spencer is an advisor to the Cornwall Alliance, formerly the Interfaith Steward Alliance (ISA), an evangelical Christian group that claims environmentalism is “one of the greatest threats to society and the church today.”[2], [3], [4] According to “Global Warming 101,” a section of Spencer's website, “the extra carbon dioxide we pump into the atmosphere is not enough to cause the observed warming in the last 100 years.”
- Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D., of The Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis
September 25, 2018
Heritage Foundation Senior Statistician Kevin Dayaratna testified before the Oregon Joint Interim Committee on Carbon Reduction on the economic and climate impacts of proposed carbon regulations being considered by the Oregon State Legislature. [79]Video of the meeting is available at the Oregon State Legislature’s website. Dayaratna asserted a proposed cap and trade policy would result in the elimination of thousands of jobs and have little to no effect on the climate. He responded to questioning about the apparent links between climate change and extreme weather events as “myths propagated by the mainstream media.”[79]
At CDA, Dayaratna instituted the Heritage Energy Model, derived from the Energy Information Administration’s National Energy Modeling System, to quantify and help policymakers understand the long-term economic effects of energy policy proposals. In addition to energy modeling, Dayaratna also works on modeling and forecasting the effects of various tax policies.
- Craig Idso, Ph.D., of CO2 Science;
“'Saving US Coal' has been created to be the vehicle for turning the tide for the full acceptance of coal in the US energy market by undertaking a campaign to repeal CO2 Endangerment at EPA. That requires a compelling EPA filing, of course, one that proves the benign and beneficial nature of more CO2 in the air based on the incredible work that Craig Idso has carried on for his Dad, Sherwood Idso and mentor, Sylvan Wittwer. However, it also requires creation of a coal coalition, like the Climate council quoted above, and the make-up of that coalition can be learned from coal’s past,” Palmer wrote. [97]
- Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D., of the American Enterprise Institute;
Benjamin Zycher is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), and former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He formerly worked as a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. [1] He is also a former adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute where he appears to have done work on tobacco issues. Zycher was a member of the editorial advisory board of the Cato Institute's Regulation publication in the 1990s. [2], [3] As SourceWatch has documented, Zycher was “erratically involved in the cash-for-comments network run for the Tobacco Institute.” The network was operated by James Savarese through his company Ogilvy & MatherPR. [4]“Ben Zycher was one of their later recruits, and his role was mainly to provide help in convincing other economist that the ultra-libertarian version of free-market economics applied to the health industries, and that cigarettes should not be regulated in any special way. […] He appears to have shifted to the Cato Institute which also did contract tobacco industry lobbying work,” SourceWatch reported. [4]
- Roger Bezdek, Ph.D., of MISI;
In recent years, Bezdek has been very vocal in his opposition to new U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and argues that excessive amounts of C02 are good for the planet and that the scientfic consensus on climate change is a “manufactured myth.” On June 1, 2015, Bezdek testified on behalf of the coal company Peabody Energy at a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing, where he went on the record stating that: “CO2 is not harmful and is actually good for the planet…”“The federal SCC [social costs of carbon] estimates do not adequately consider the benefits of fossil fuels and CO2 emission.”“In reality, the 'scientific consensus' is a manufactured myth…”“… there is no convincing evidence that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) will produce catastrophic climate changes.”
- Anthony Watts, new Heartland Senior Fellow and founder of Watts Up With That.
And now we close the circle. On the WUWT home page today:
Chinese virus: a pox on the experts #coronavirus By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley It’s déjà vu all over again, and, frankly, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. On the climate question, the totalitarians told us we must believe, just believe the experts. As a hard-headed British engineer once defined it: “Expert: x, an unknown quantity; spurt, a drip under pressure.”
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Hard Times in the Climate Denial Business for the Heartland Institute — DesmogBlog
Jul 29, 2019 — Last week, the Heartland Institute was again trumpeting climate science denial at its 13th “International Conference on Climate Change” at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. But by a number of measures, the Chicago-based free market think tank's science denial doesn't exactly seem to be a growing —or cohesive— movement at this point.That's even with more media coverage than five years ago, and with friends in high places. In early 2017, following the election of President Trump, attendees of the Heartland Institute conference were clearly excited to have a climate denier in the White House. Frontline reported that the mood at the conference was “jubilant.”
Even last year, the organization was projecting an air of optimism. Former Congressman Tim Huelskamp was still Heartland president and confidently declaring victory for the climate denial movement.
“It took a while, but we think we’ve won the battle — Al Gore was wrong,” Huelskamp said.
So, how are things going for Heartland these days?
The first big news out of the 2019 conference was the announcement that Heartland’s board had elected a new president after the sudden and unexplained resignation of Huelskamp from that position in June.
The new president is Frank Lasee, a former Wisconsin state legislator and member of Governor Scott Walker’s administration. Noticeably absent from the press release announcing his new position — at Heartland’s climate science denial conference — was any mention of climate denialism.
Not exactly what you would expect from the group who not long ago claimed it had “won the battle” about the purported reality of climate change.
Shorter Conference, Fake Sponsor, Low Attendance, and a Lot of Gray Haired Men
Nov 2, 2018 — Few entities have worked harder to instill doubt in American minds about the science of climate change than the Heartland Institute.
The self-styled “action tank” has published dozens of books and other media amplifying the voices of those who reject the scientific consensus on climate change. Last year, the libertarian organization mailed instructional materials questioning whether global warming is real to science teachers across the nation.
Emails obtained by Freedom of Information Act lawsuits revealed that under Trump, EPA officials have corresponded with Heartland leaders, in some cases to drum up support for policies and events. Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, his proposal to roll back car fuel economy standards and his plan to support old coal-powered plants are all policies that Heartland has advocated.
Heartland anticipated this bonanza. At the climate conference the organization hosted in Washington, D.C. just weeks after Trump's inauguration in 2017, the mood was jubilant: “This is a wonderful time to be a global warming realist,”said Heartland’s then-President Joseph Bast as he kicked off the meeting, using the term the organization uses to describe the movement.
In that same speech, Bast — who has since semi-retired — hinted at a change in strategy: “The scientific debate is essentially over,” he said. “What remains to be done is the political battle.”
Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard University professor who examined Heartland and its allies in her book Merchants of Doubt, said there may be another reason for the pivot: They may have calculated that the science argument is not as effective as it used to be. “Organizations like Heartland are very effective at shifting tactics in response to whatever is happening in that moment,” she said. “If we were to have an unusually cold spell for three years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them pick up the science again.”
I Went to a Climate Change Denial Conference. It Made Even Less Sense Than You’d Think— In These Times
Jul 26, 2019 - Panelists at the Heartland Institute's Thursday gathering agree you should stop worrying about climate change. They just can't agree on why.
Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine …— The Guardian
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Feb 14, 2012 -Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science
Libertarian thinktank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry, papers suggest
The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.
DeSmogBlog, which broke the story, said it had received the confidential documents from an "insider" at the Heartland Institute, which is based in Chicago. The blog monitors industry efforts to discredit climate science.
The scheme includes spending $100,000 for spreading the message in K-12 schools that "the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science", the documents said.
Those documents helped sink the UN's climate summit later that year. In this instance, however, the Heartland documents are policy statements ...
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
- Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), a nonprofit research and education organization based in Arlington, Virginia. SEPP, in turn, was founded in 1990 by Dr. S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric
physicist[Denialist: Global Warming, UV and melanoma, ozone depletion], and incorporated in 1992 following Dr. Singer’s retirement from the University of Virginia. NIPCC is currently a joint project of SEPP, The Heartland Institute, and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. [CO2 is good for plants, hence good for all of us.]