Global Warming – Why Carbon Dioxide Plays No Role

Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. traveled across Australia for 15 days in early August 2009 for a series of meetings to discuss global warming. During his “Sorting Fact from Fiction on Climate Change” speaking tour, Lehr delivered more than two dozen presentations in Melbourne, Victoria, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and the Sunshine Coast

On August 7 he addressed the Institute for Private Enterprise, South Yarra, in conjunction with the Australian Climate Science Coalition. This is an edited transcript of his remarks.

Lehr opened by noting, "When I point out in a couple of different ways that we're not responsible for the warming, and that carbon dioxide is a good thing, not a bad thing, you will obviously recognise the pointlessness of having any legislation. However it isn't pointless for people that are going to make money out of it or gain power out of it. But I hope to give you a package of simple information that each day you can share with people at your dinner table, that you can share in social gatherings like this if you get together and chat, not in a particularly strong science way, but in a manner where you share with people who respect your judgment that you are convinced that man is not responsible for either the ups or downs of the planet.  You don't have to teach science, you plant a seed of doubt in the mind of somebody who respects you and they will rethink the whole thing.  So slowly and exponentially, if all of you talk to three dozen people in the course of a year, and some of them talk to three dozen people in turn, very slowly we can turn around public opinion."