Does anyone have any idea about which high-repute climatologists attended this Global Warming Skeptics conference?”
First, a little something lighthearted. Bob Park is a curmudgeonly publisher of the e-newsletter “What’s New”. He is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland. In this week’s newsletter he has included the following item [from here ]: The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change held in New York, ended Tuesday. No, no, it wasn’t that government thing; this one was sponsored by the Heartland Institute. No, I have no idea what the Heartland Institute is, or where it gets its money, but I can guess. Don’t feel bad if you missed the meeting; a lot of people did. One third of all the scientists at the meeting thought the chilly temperatures in New York this week were evidence of climate cooling; one third thought it was just cold weather, and the other one said he had no opinion. One quickly determines that this conference is not a scientific conference. In the letter sent by the Heartland Institute to prospec
