Inhofe Speaks To Hundreds @ Heartland's Alternative Universe Climate Session, Receives Award

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To listen to the speakers is like peering into an alternate universe where climate change is an evil political scheme to “grab” more power, rather than a scientific reality with roots in research that goes all the way back to the 19th century. “We’re here to speak truth to power,” said James Taylor, senior fellow for environment and energy policy at the Heartland Institute, who has fought to roll back state renewable energy mandates that have increased the use of wind and solar power nationwide. “People talk about the social cost of carbon. But ask: What are the benefits?”

Taylor cited a shrinking of the Sahara Desert and global warming’s role in growing more plant life worldwide. “There’s more foliage throughout the planet,” he said. Today, manmade global warming is on as solid a scientific footing as other scientific theories, including gravity and evolution. There are uncertainties about how warming and its effects will play out, particularly at local scales, but the basic fact that the world is warming due largely to human activities is accepted by the vast majority of climate scientists, world leaders and even members of the U.S. public.

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On Thursday morning at the conference, Senate climate skeptic-in-chief Inhofe received the "political leadership" award for his steadfast refusal to recognize mainstream climate science findings. In his acceptance speech, Inhofe said he is the only senator ever to throw a snowball on the floor of the Senate, a stunt meant to prove, well, something about global warming (he didn't say at the time, nor did he on Thursday). “You’ve got to realize that we are winning,” Inhofe told the audience of about 250, along with a live stream audience of between 200 to 400 people, depending on the conference session. He and other speakers cited the audience figure of 80,000, but they may have been basing that on the membership numbers of various groups sponsoring the event.

Other speakers included Willie Soon, who is under investigation by the Smithsonian Institution and several academic journals for failing to reveal that funding for his work came from fossil fuel companies. Soon works for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and has long argued that the sun, rather than carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, is controlling Earth’s climate,

http://mashable.com/2015/06/11/global-warming-conference-skeptics/