I’d be a whole lot happier if the list of invited nations included Denmark, and there was word that the Danish delegation would include Henrik Svensmark.
Next time you’re in a debate with an anthropogenic global warming advocate, be sure to ask him or her about the antarctic temperature anomaly:
Antarctic temperatures fluctuate out of phase with the rest of the globe—it gets colder there when everywhere else is warming up, and warmer there when everywhere else is cooling (at least since the last ice age, and I think much further back on ice core evidence). Svensmark’s theory that global warming is caused by increased shielding of the earth from cosmic rays by increased solar magnetism leading to decreased cloud formation explains it: the antarctic is the only region where the surface albedo is so high that cloud formation is a warming effect, everywhere else it is a cooling effect. (He also has experimental proof that cosmic ray tracks are important in cloud formation.) Neither the (anthropogenic) greenhouse gas theory nor simply attributing global warming to increased solar radiance explains the antarctic anomaly, while Svensmark’s theory does.
How could they also not include all-and I mean all-of the third world countries that truly are heavy polluters? I would think that Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia-in fact, most of the African continent, Cuba, El Salvador, Belorussia, Ukraine, Haiti, Dominican Republic, etc. are all heavy polluters and have been for quite some time.