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Bob Carter’s Report on the First Session at the Climate Conference in New York

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Folks,

You may be interested in my reports from the NY climate conference which are being posted by Quadrant Online.

In my report on session one I comment that:

President Vaclav Klaus reports latest poll from the Czech Republic shows only 11% of people believe that man has a significant influence in warming the climate.

West Australian Joanne Nova’s Climate Skeptics Handbook launched, and a 150,000 print run announced.

“We will win this debate”, says Dr Richard Lindzen, “for we are right and they are wrong”.
 
More here:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/03/heartland-2-session-one

Bob Carter
New York
9th March, 2009

It’s Just Not Possible to Forecast Climate

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CLIMATE is complex and represents exactly the kind of system that cannot be modeled with any accuracy.   At least that is according to Kesten Green, a forecasting expert at Monash University, Australia.  Dr Green argues that a key question when trying to predict future climate is to ask: Can we do better than assume future temperatures will be the same as current temperatures?  

In the following paper, based on a presentation to be given at the second international Climate Conference in New York later today, Dr Kesten explains that there is no scientific basis for the United Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change forecasts of global warming.   

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European Union President to Open Skeptics Conference

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THE President of the Czech Republic and the current president of the European Union, Vaclav Klaus, will give the keynote address this evening at the opening of the second international Conference on Climate Change – billed as the world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics.  

The President is expected to be blunt when he addresses the 400 strong-audience who have flown in from around the world. 

The theme of the conference is “Global warming: was it ever really a crisis?”  

President Klaus has remarked that there is no climate crisis, but the consequences of a belief in “the crisis” are indeed frightening.

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