[cogitator]

Many of the participants in this conference are people who have already expressed skepticism about either the prevailing explanations of current climate change or the dire predictions about future climate change.

SHOCKED, I tell you. I am SHOCKED that this conference sponsored by the Heartland institute would include people that had ALREADY expressed skepticism about climate change like this! Doesn't the Heartland Institute, who is actually PAYING these participants to come to the meeting (and to stay in one of New York's finest hotels to boot!), know that there is a scientific consensus on this issue? I think it is APPALLING that such a noteworthy organization as the Heartland Institute would actually INVITE and PAY these scientists to express their views PUBLICALLY, in a conference attended by other like-minded SCIENTISTS.

I'll be shaking my head all day about this.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m sure the pro-global warming conferences include a variety of scientists with diverse points of view on this subject?

[Old Professer]

You don’t think that all those scientists and hanger-ons from the warming side paid their own way to the previous conferences, do you?

Dismissing things out of hand, especially before they even take place, intimates a bit of bias.

At least these guys aren’t holding the conference in a tropical area while the rest of the planet freezes:

“A new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th — weather permitting.”

http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceSchedule.pdf

[Old Professer]

You don’t think that all those scientists and hanger-ons from the warming side paid their own way to the previous conferences, do you?

Dismissing things out of hand, especially before they even take place, intimates a bit of bias.

At least these guys aren’t holding the conference in a tropical area while the rest of the planet freezes:

“A new and very different conference on global warming will be held in New York City, under the sponsorship of the Heartland Institute, on March 2nd to March 4th — weather permitting.”

http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceSchedule.pdf

[Old Professer]

Sorry for the double post but I was dropped offf the browser and had to open a new window to repost.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Doesn't the Heartland Institute...know that there is a scientific consensus on this issue?

And what weight does that carry?

There has been scientific consensus on a great many ideas in the past before they were blown out of the water by observation and a little clear thought.

Do the names Copernicus and Kepler ring a bell?