[cogitator]

Shermer has organized a conference taking place June 2-4 on climate change.

The Environmental Wars

"Why are we still debating climate change? How soon will we hit peak oil supply? When politics mix with science, what is being brewed? Join speakers from the left & the right, from the lab & the field, from industry & advocacy, as we air the ongoing debate about whether human activity is actually changing the climate of the planet.

From June 2–4, 2006, the Environmental Wars conference will host scientists, writers, environmentalists, and thinkers from all points along the environmental spectrum at the California Institute of Technology for questions, answers, and opinions.

Speakers list:

Special Guests: John Stossel, Michael Crichton

Speakers: Gregory Arnold, Jonathan Adler, David Baltimore, Gregory Benford, Brian Fagan, David Goodstein, Paul MacCready, Chris Mooney, Donald Prothero, Tapio Schneider

Could be fun. Crichton should have a few things to say!

[Chaguito]

Pardon me if I'm somewhat unimpressed by the fact that the declaration of a bunch of evangelical preachers (I am one, BTW, also a former research chemist), was a major factor in his flip.

I am also unimpressed by the subtle disappearance of the word "anthropogenic" after its only mention early in the article.

Don't want to be a cynic, but there's lots more $$$ in being a faithful witness to anthropogenic global warming than there is in being a skeptic.

I remain skeptical, and poor.

[ChadGore]

A DARPA RFQ I'de like to see:

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General Information

Document Type:	Presolicitation Notice
Solicitation Number:	HR0011-06-Q-0001
Posted Date:	Nov 15, 2005
Original Response Date:	Jan 03, 2006
Current Response Date:	Jan 03, 2006
Original Archive Date:	Jan 18, 2006
Current Archive Date:	Jan 18, 2006
Classification Code:	R -- Professional, administrative, and management support services
Set Aside:	Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
Naics Code:	541611 -- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services

Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing an plan to decrease the temperature in the United States of America. Winner gets 1 Billion dollars. 

Point of Contact

Doug Pollock, Contracting Officer, DARPA Contracts Management Office (CMO), Phone None, Fax (703) 696-2208, Email dpollock@darpa.mil

Place of Performance

Address: Off-site from DARPA 

[hgro]

Martians are have the same global warming problem. How do the lefty crisis mongers explain that?

[ChessExpert]

Environmental groups who cry doom and gloom to keep donations flowing only hurt their credibility. As an undergraduate in the 1970s, I learned (and believed) that by the 1990s overpopulation would lead to worldwide starvation and the exhaustion of key minerals, metals and oil, predictions that failed utterly. ...

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

I am underwhelmed by the evidence provided. You just been fooled again.