Heartland Institute out of touch with America

The Heartland Institute is holding a conference this week in New York that's all about denying the realities of global warming. While they were in their fancy luxury hotel above Times Square, we hit the street to see what average Americans thought about the issue. Seem the Heartland conference is stuck somewhere in the Twilight Zone

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[Grassrootbeer]

Have you ever dug into names like Fred Singer or Patrick Michaels, who were two of the very few actually credentialed scientists at the conference? Singer was involved in the oh-so-similar denial of cigarette smoking and cancer, and now the same PR Firm that paid him to defend the tobacco industry is paying him to do the same with climate change. And when was the last time he released a peer-reviewed study?

This is realism. Please drop the interference and join the people in the real world.

[ejbh3160]

silly bugger the WOBBLE is a slow process... its called the 'precession of the Equinoxes'... look it up...

Really dude you DO need to THINK before you type.

[MrTranscend1]

smog deniers never talk about ocean ph, toxic smog or big oil spills.. they actually support the people they think are going to get them.. they don't want a tax but pay 4$ a gallon in gas.. they don't want cap and trade and yet ignore all the dead in oil wars.. they never offer a better message of alternative energy.. smog deniers are fools.. !!!

[achtung07]

Who would have guessed, having watched this ill informed propaganda, that there has been no warming since 1998. The planet has cooled by 0.7 degrees since 2007 wiping out the net increase of 0.6 degrees across the 20th century. Read Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer, Frederick Singer, Nils Axel Morner, Syun Ichi Akasofu, John Christy.

These people probably listen to Albert Gore. Now that is a joke

[keithmlarsen]

I think you mean "Heartland institute out of touch with inner city New Yorkers!"

[keithmlarsen]

This is so pathetic- So scientists are meeting down the street who are "skeptical" of the IPCC's reports, so we'll go to the "real world" (new york city) and prove them wrong by talking to non-scientists in front of cameras. This is a plague on intelligent thought everywhere. There is nothing of value in this video-

[ciwhitten]

This is like one of those Jay Leno man-on-the-street interview bits. Except, I'm not sure the creator intends this to be funny.

[tantpwei]

Manmade global warming is a concrete scientific fact with tons of data around the world.

Just search wikipedia - "scientific oppinion on climate change" to see what the scientists say; or just search the statement of any meterological society of any major countries around the world, or any reputable scientific organization. It is a scientific fact and there is OVERWHELMING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS on this around the world. AGW is FACT!

[glennimmortal]

exactly all the have shown here is the depth of main stream media penetration.

[TRUMPHENT]

With only 500 characters allotted in a YT reply, one has to choose words carefully. V. Ramanathan showed that any polyatomic gas molecule has a measurable and distinct radiative forcing in the atmosphere. Heck, he proved that CFC11 is 10K stronger than CO2's radiative forcing. Per molecule.

I wish the Heartland Institute would do man/worman interviews in the street. They don't and for good reason.

Good luck and fortune building your own little fantasy universe.

[1Mehring1]

@TRUMPHENT

While you clearly want to lambast your readers with scientific sounding hyperbole, your post is as irrational as it is evasive of the political issue I'm raising.

You demonstrate no causal relationship between the molecular structure of CO2and anything, while your asertion that it has caused a net decrease in the ice sheets is untrue; that it could do, as yet unproven.

Is that the best you can do?

[TRUMPHENT]

@1Mehring1 Fantasy? The fantasy would be that CO2 has no radiative forcing, it isn't acidic in rain or ocean water

It would be fantastic if CO2 if it weren't a polyatomic molecule. That make it transparent to infrared. Oops CO2, by definition is polyatomic.

Another fantastic fantasy would be that Global Warming didn't involved sea level rise due to thermal expansion and melting ice sheets.

The biggest GW fantasy would be no corporate assassination of the science.