SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

May 21, 2012 May 23, 2012 Hilton Chicago Hotel 720 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois Tentative Schedule
All meals take place in the Continental Ballroom. All panels take place in the Williford Ballroom on the third floor except for Panel 9 on Wednesday, which takes place in the Continental Ballroom following the breakfast program.

Monday, May 21
7:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Registration on the main level near the Continental Ballroom Exhibit area open BREAKFAST

Welcome: Joseph Bast, president, and James M. Taylor, senior fellow, The Heartland Institute Keynote: Joe Bastardi Global Sea Ice, Accumulated Cyclone Energy, and How It Explains the Climate 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. BREAK PANEL 1 Climate History and Physics

Nir Shaviv, Ph.D. The Solar/Cosmic Ray Connection and Its Implication to the Understanding of Present Day Climate Change Howard Hayden, Ph.D. What Physics Tells Us About the Sensitivity of Climate to CO2 Forcing Don Easterbrook, Ph.D. Are Forecasts of a 20-Year Cooling Trend Credible?

11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

PANEL 2 Health and Welfare

John Dunn, M.D. Does Global Warming Harm Human Health? Paul Driessen Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Human Welfare Alan Carlin, Ph.D. EPAs Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants

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Richard Trzupek The Regulatory Tsunami: A Closer Look at Rules in Place and on the Way

12:15 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 1:45 p.m.

BREAK LUNCH

Group Discussion Climate Change and the Blogosphere Larry Bell, University of Houston Tom Harris, International Climate Science Coalition Marc Morano, ClimateDepot.com

1:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

BREAK

2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

PANEL 3 Impact of Climate Change

Craig Idso, Ph.D. Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Craig Loehle, Ph.D. Enhanced Crop, Forest, and Ecosystem Health in a Warmer World Patrick Michaels, Ph.D. The Role of Public Choice in Climate Science

3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m

PANEL 4 Extreme Weather Events

William Gray, Ph.D. Why Computer Models Overestimate Global Warming Stanley Goldenberg, Ph.D. Hurricanes and Other Extreme Weather Events Anthony Lupo, Ph.D. Is Global Warming Causing Extreme Weather Events?

4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

BREAK

Reception/book sales-signing in the exhibit area (cash bar) with authors Patrick Michaels and Larry Bell

5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

DINNER

James M. Taylor Real Science Joseph Bast Real Choices

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Hon. Vaclav Klaus, Ph.D., president, Czech Republic

9:00 p.m.

ADJOURN

Tuesday May 22, 2012

7:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 p.m. Registration on main level near the Continental Ballroom Exhibit area open

8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

BREAKFAST

Group Discussion: The NASA Letter Writers Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D., Apollo 17 Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 Harold Doiron, former NASA scientist Thomas Wysmuller, former NASA scientist Leighton Steward, CO2 Is Green (moderator)

10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

BREAK

10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. PANEL 5 Attribution: What Causes Climate Change? Willie Soon, Ph.D. Almighty CO2, Giant Boa Snake and the Sun (What controls the equator-to-pole temperature distribution of the Earths surface?) Fred Singer, Ph.D. CO2 and Climate Change: The Evidence Doesnt Add Up Tom Segalstad, Ph.D. Geochemistry of CO2: The Whereabouts of CO2 in Earth

11:30 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

BREAK LUNCH

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)

1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

BREAK

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2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

PANEL 6 Measuring Climate Change and Its Impacts 1

Anthony Watts How Reliable Are Twentieth Century Temperature Reconstructions? Richard Keen, Ph.D. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Global Climate Models Willis Eschenbach, Ph.D. Global Warmings Impact on Ecosystems

3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

PANEL 7 Measuring Climate Change and Its Impacts 2

Bob Carter, Ph.D. TBD Madhav Khandekar, Ph.D. Global Warming Effects on Regional Climate Dennis Avery, Ph.D. -6,000 Years of Civilizations Collapsed by Abrupt Climate Change 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. BREAK

Reception/book sales-signing in the exhibit area (cash bar) with Brian Sussman and S. Fred Singer

5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

DINNER

Brian Sussman, author of Eco-Tyranny and Climategate

9:00 p.m.

ADJOURN

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

7:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. 7:30 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Registration on the main level by the Continental Ballroom Exhibit area open

8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m.

BREAKFAST

Roger Helmer, Member of the European Parliament, Great Britain

9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

BREAK

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

PANEL 8 Limits of Renewable Energy

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Peter Ferrara, J.D. The Economic Implications of High-Cost Energy Donn Dears Why It Is Virtually Impossible to Cut CO2 Emissions by 80 Percent Ken Haapala, M.S. Wind and Solar: The Past or the Future?

10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

PANEL 9 Communicating Climate Change (concurrent session taking place in the Continental Ballroom)

Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Teaching Climate Change to the Public Steve Goreham The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism Richard Trzupek TBD

11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

PANEL 10 Social and Economic Factors

Myron Ebell, J.D., The Political Challenges and Opportunities of Piecemeal Implementation of Energy Rationing Agendas Julian Morris, M.S., J.D. Climate Change and Sustainable Development Christopher Horner, J.D. TBD

12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m.

BREAK

12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

LUNCH

Sebastian Luning, author, Die kalte Sonne (The Cold Sun) The Medieval Warm Period within the Context of Millennial Scale Climate Cycles

2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

CONCLUDING REMARKS

2:15 p.m.

ADJOURN

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