12 New Speakers Confirmed for 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

(Chicago, Illinois - February 6, 2008) A dozen new scientists, policy experts, and economists have been confirmed as speakers for the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, to take place March 2-4 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square in New York. The conference is being organized by The Heartland Institute, a national nonpartisan think tank based in Chicago.

The new speakers join a growing list of experts from around the world who question the presumption of man-made climate change. They contend there is no scientific consensus that human activity is the cause of global warming or that warming will be catastrophic.

The conference will give international scientists, economists, and policy experts who focus on some dimension of climate change a venue to challenge misleading evidence about the causes, extent, and consequences of the modern warming. They will present a side of the debate often ignored by the mainstream media and dismissed by government.

"The scientific community is split down the middle on whether future warming would be moderate and benign, or severe and harmful," noted Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute.

"Most scientists don't believe we can predict what future climates will look like," Bast continued. "They are deeply skeptical of the reliability of computer models, the basis for all claims that future warming with be any different from the moderate warming of the past century. And there is no agreement at all on what, if anything, we should about global warming.

The newly confirmed speakers are:

Scott Armstrong

Professor

Wharton School of Business

University of Pennsylvania

armstrong@wharton.upenn.edu

Robert Balling

Professor of Climatology

Arizona State University

robert.balling@asu.edu

Don Boudreaux

Chairman

Department of Economics

George Mason University

dboudrea@gmu.edu

Bob Carter

Professor

Marine Geophysical Laboratory

James Cook University

Queensland, Australia

Bob.Carter@jcu.edu.au

Fred Goldberg

Associate Professor

Royal School of Technology

Stockholm, Sweden

Fred@materialdata.se

Ken Green

Resident Scholar

American Enterprise Institute

Kgreen@AEI.org

Craig Idso

Vice President

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

cidso@co2science.org

Marc Morano

Communications Director

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

marc_morano@epw.senate.gov

Benny Peiser

Social Anthropologist

Liverpool John Moores University

B.J.Peiser@ljmu.ac.uk

Eric Rey

President and CEO

Arcadia Biosciences

eric.rey@arcadiabio.com

Tom Segalstad

Geologist

University of Oslo

t.v.segalstad@uhm.uio.no

Paul Waggoner

Distinguished Scientist

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

agwagg@comcast.net

To view the tentative schedule or register for this event, please visit http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/newyork08.cfm.

Additional cosponsors and speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. For more information about the event, contact James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute, at 941/776-5690 or email at taylor@heartland.org.

For more information about The Heartland Institute, please contact Harriette Johnson, media relations manager at 312/377-4000 or email at hjohnson@heartland.org.