Presentations by Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, Alex Epstein, Ian Plimer, Alex Epstein, Marc Morano, Jo Nova, and many others.
Watch Day 1 of The Heartland Institute’s 15th International Conference on Climate Change, which took place from February 24-25 in Orlando, Florida. All of the presentations streamed live on three feeds — one for the plenary sessions in the Patrick J. Michaels Ballroom; one for Panel A in the Jay H. Lehr Room; and one for Panel B in the Walt Cunningham room.
If you missed any of Saturday’s presentations, you can watch them here.
WATCH THE VIDEOS BELOW, or watch on Heartland’s YouTube Channel.
Plenary sessions on Friday, February 24 in the Patrick J. Michaels Ballroom:
NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.
This video contains all the plenary sessions on Day 1 of The Heartland Institute’s 15th International Conference on Climate Change.
Breakfast Keynote – Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 (00:00 – 45:24)
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and now director at the CO2 Coalition, talks about “fake invisible catastrophes and threats of doom,” his turn away from Greenpace, as well as the benefits of human contributions to carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
Lunch Keynotes – Friday, Feb. 24, 2023
Geologist Ian Plimer, emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, speaks on how knowing the past is key to understanding present climate (56:46 – 1:24:44). Marc Morano on The Great Reset: Global Elites & the Permanent Lockdown (1:24:45 – 2:09:20)
Dinner Keynotes – Friday, Feb 24, 2023
The Heartland Institute pays tribute to friends and scientists who had passed since the last conference with an “In Memoriam” video (2:09:21 – 2:32:40). Craig Rucker presents the 2023 Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award to Jo Nova (2:32:40 -2:51:46). Ken Haapala presents the 2023 Frederick Seitz Memorial Award to Christopher Essex (2:51:47 – 3:12:59). Alex Epstein on our Fossil Future. (3:13:00 – 4:16:17). Heartland’s Joseph Morris offers inspiring closing remarks (4:16:18 – 4:26:25)
Panel A (science, mostly) on Friday, February 24 in the Jay H. Lehr breakout room:
NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.
Panel 1A – Taking the Temperature of Global Temperatures (00:00 – 1:21:31)
Anthony Watts on “Corrupted Climate Stations and What to Do About Them”; Willie Soon on “Global warming: Mostly Human-caused or Mostly Natural?”; Joe Bastardi on “More Evidence Debunking CO2 as a Climate Control Knob”; Audience Q&A.
Panel 2A – Understanding What’s Really Happening to the Climate (1:21:32 – 2:48:37)
Ross McKitrick on “Updated Climate Sensitivity Estimates and the Social Cost of Carbon”; Judith Curry on “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming”; Richard Lindzen on “What I think the Climate is Really Doing”: Audience Q&A.
Panel 3A – Is Climate Science Scientific? (2:48:38 – 4:04:18)
Tom Sheahen on “In Science, Data Trumps Theory: Correcting Errors in Science”; Howard Hayden on “IPCC’s Exercise in Self-contradiction”; Ken Haapala on “The Primacy of Doubt”; Audience Q&A.
Panel 4A – 4:15pm Green Agenda’s Impact on People (4:04:19 – 5:34:25)
Donna Jackson on how “Environmental Justice” is a Scam;” Bob Carlstrom on the “Impact of Higher Green Energy Costs on the Poor and Elderly”; Margaret Byfield on “The Biden Administration’s 30×30 Land Grab”; Audience Q&A.
Panel B (energy/policy, mostly) on Friday, February 24 in the Walt Cunningham breakout room:
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Panel 1B – Consequences of Scarce Energy (00:00 – 1:14:29)
Vijay Jayaraj on “Green or Blood Red” (unfortunately, technical difficulties eliminated most of this presentation and we’re looking to replace it); Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. on “Biden Administration Responsible for High Energy Costs”; and Marc Morano on “COVID and Climate: The Parallels Are Screaming at Us”; Audience Q&A.
Panel 2B – Defeating ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) (1:14:30 – 2:41:11)
Jason Isaac on “Raising America’s Energy IQ”; Paul Watkins on “Imposing ESG on Companies”; Marlo Lewis on “Arbitrary and Capricious: SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule”; Audience Q&A.
Panel 3B – What it Takes to Power Our Modern Society (2:41:12 – 4:06:01)
Ronald Stein on “The Elephant in the Room: We’ve Had 200 Years to Replace Fossil Fuels”; Linnea Lueken on “Myths and Legends About the Oil Industry, and How the Truth Combats Them”; Alex Epstein, “Global Human Flourishing Requires Much More Energy”; Audience Q&A.
Panel 4B – Unworkable Climate ‘Solutions’ (4:06:02 – 5:36:36)
Steve Milloy on “Net Zero: Not Needed, Not Possible and Not Survivable”; Kevin Dayaratna on “Unworkable Climate ‘Solutions’ – Carbon-based Regulation”; Ben Lieberman on “The Global War on Air Conditioning”; Audience Q&A.
Jim Lakely is the Vice President and Director of Communications of The Heartland Institute.
