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Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

 

 
An Address by:
Dr. Roy Spencer
Former NASA Scientist, Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama
 
 
February 24, 2010
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Burgiss Theater, University Center
(#20 on this map)
CLP status
 

Roy W. Spencer received his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. Before becoming a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2001, he was a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites. Dr. Spencer's work with NASA continues as the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying in NASA's Aqua satellite. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming. Dr. Spencer's research has been entirely supported by the following U.S. government agencies: NASA, NOAA, and DOE.

 
RED HOT LIES: THE GLOBAL WARMING METHODOLOGY
 
 
An Address by:
Christopher Horner
Senior Fellow,
Competitive Enterprise Institute
 
March 24, 2009
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Burgiss Theater, University Center
(#20 on this map)
CLP status
 
Christopher C. Horner serves as a Senior Fellow at CEI. As an attorney in Washington, DC Horner has represented CEI as well as scientists and Members of the U.S. House and Senate on matters of environmental policy in the federal courts including the Supreme Court. He has written on numerous topics in publications ranging from law reviews to legal and industrial trade journals to print and online opinion pages, and is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Regnery, 2007), which spent half of 2007 on the New York Times bestseller list. He also authored the just-released Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (Regnery, 2008).

Horner has testified before the United States Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works, and works on a legal and policy level with numerous think tanks and policy organizations throughout the world. He has given numerous addresses to audiences in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels, and before policymakers in European capitals including London, Rome, Prague, Copenhagen, Madrid and Warsaw, on topics ranging from rail deregulation and unfunded pension liability to all manner of energy and environment issues. Horner serves on the international law practice group’s executive committee for an internationally respected assembly of lawyers, and has provided counsel and work product on other matters including intellectual property, WTO proceedings and treaty law and policy.

Greenpeace has repeatedly targeted Mr. Horner, by stealing his garbage on a weekly basis, issuing press releases announcing with whom he dines and including him in various other hysterical publications including most recently "A Field Guide to Climate Criminals" distributed at the UN climate meeting in Montreal in December 2005.

Mr. Horner has provided legal, policy and political commentary several hundred times each on both television and radio, in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, including scores of visits each on the Fox News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC with repeat visits on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, BBC, CNN, CNN International, ITN, CBC, Bloomberg and Reuters Television. Mr. Horner has also been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has guest hosted television commentary programs and makes weekly appearances on and regularly guest hosts nationally and regionally syndicated radio shows in America.

H
e has been a frequent contributor in the Washington Times, National Review Online and TechCentralStation.com opinion pages, is a guest columnist for United Press International and OpinionEditorials.com, and has regularly contributed to the Brussels legislative news magazine EU Reporter . Horner also regularly writes for Energy Tribune and Spain`s Actualidad Economica.

He received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis where he received the Judge Samuel Breckenridge Award for Advocacy.
 

   
"Year of the Environment" Lecture Series
 
2008
 
Global Warming: Truth Versus Fiction
February 20, 2008
An Address by:
Dr. David Legates
Director, Delaware's Center for Climatic Research
 
Professor David Legates is a climatologist who specializes in hydroclimatology (water), statistical methods, climate change, and environmental education. His research focuses on precipitation – its measurement, analysis, and assessment of extreme events—as well as statistical evaluation of climatological methodologies. He has earned the Certified Consulting Meteorologist status from the American Meteorological Society, and in 1999, he was awarded the Boeing Autometric Award for best paper in image analysis and interpretation.

Professor Legates has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and monograph series and has made more than 200 professional presentations.

Currently, Professor Legates is the Director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware and serves as the Delaware State Climatologist. He also is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and an Adjunct Professor in the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program and the Department of Statistics. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Geography (double major – cum laude) at the University of Delaware in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Climatology from the University of Delaware in 1988. He spent 9½ years as a professor at the University of Oklahoma and 1½ years as a professor at Louisiana State University before returning to the University of Delaware in 1999.

2007
Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow
presents Dr. Richard Lindzen May 9 at 7 P.M.
Dr. Lindzen will give an address on "Global Warming Alarm"

May 4, 2007--Greenville, SC

 

Furman University's Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow presents, in celebration of the university's "Year of the Environment," Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lindzen will deliver an address on "Global Warming Alarm" Wednesday, May 9, at 7:00 P.M. in the Watkins Room of the University Center (map).

 

The address will last approximately one hour and will be followed by a brief question-and-answer session. It is the second part of CSBT's "Year of the Environment" lecture series.

 

The event is open to the public without charge. All students, faculty, and members of the community are welcome. Seating is limited. The event has CLP status.

  

Dr. Richard S. Lindzen has been the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1983. He is the author of over 200 books and papers in the scientific literature. He was a lead author on chapter 7 (on physical processes) of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report (2001).

  

One of the world’s foremost atmospheric scientists, Dr. Lindzen was elected in 1977 to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union and the Meisinger and Charney Awards as well as the Haurwitz Lectureship of the American Meteorological Society. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a fellow in the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the World Institute of Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

  

Dr. Lindzen previously worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and taught at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, where he held the Burden Chair in dynamic meteorology. His A.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees are from Harvard University.

 

The Greenville News covered this event.

 

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2006
Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow
presents Fred Smith Dec. 6 at 5 P.M.
Mr. Smith will give an address on "The Politics and Economics of Climate Change"

December 2, 2006--Greenville, SC

 

Furman University’s Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow proudly presents, in celebration of the university’s “Year of the Environment,” Mr. Fred Smith, President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Mr. Smith will deliver an address on “The Politics and Economics of Climate Change” Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 5 p.m. in the James C. Furman Hall.

The address will last approximately one hour and will be followed by a brief question-and-answer session. The event has CLP status.

The event is open to the public without charge. All students, faculty, and members of the community are welcome. Seating is limited.

Well-known in academic and professional circles, Mr. Smith is a popular speaker at universities and conferences around the world. He is President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group established in 1984. Mr. Smith is also a frequent guest on national television and radio programs to discuss and debate regulatory initiatives and topical policy issues.

Mr. Smith’s works have been published in leading newspapers and magazines such as the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Economic Affairs, and the Washington Times. His academic articles have appeared in journals such as Harvard Journal of Law and Economics, CATO Journal, and Economic Affairs, and he is a contributing editor to Liberty magazine.

Before founding CEI, Mr. Smith served as Director of Government Relations for the Council for a Competitive Economy, as a senior economist for the Association of American Railroads, and for five years as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he sits on the Institute Turgot in Belgium.

Mr. Smith holds a B.S. degree in Theoretical Mathematics and Political Science from Tulane University where he earned the Arts and Sciences Medal (Tulane’s highest academic award) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has also done graduate work in mathematics and applied mathematical economics at Harvard, SUNY at Buffalo, and the University of Pennsylvania.


Furman University press release: http://www.furman.edu/press/pressarchive.cfm?ID=3933

 

The Greenville News also covered this event.


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 CSBT members with Fred Smith after his lecture.